Category: Films
Lumberjack the Monster review – an explosion of horror strangeness from a master of the art
The vintage year of 1999 has been back in the critical conversation recently for its quarter-centenary; it was the year of The Sixth Sense, The [more…]
The Dead Don’t Hurt review | Peter Bradshaw’s film of the week
This sinewy, sombre, handsomely crafted and beautifully shot western is Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, an impressively authored movie in which Mortensen is [more…]
The Matrix review – barnstorming sci-fi still calling our reality into question
To paraphrase Apu in The Simpsons, this was the year filmgoers were partying like it was on sale for $19.99; it offered the vintage of [more…]
Food, Inc 2 review – second helping of broadsides against the food-industry crisis
Robert Kenner’s 2008 documentary Food, Inc was an angry wake-up call to the evils of industrialised food production. Now Kenner is back for another bite, [more…]
‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding
Take a stroll through the classic English countryside of West Sussex, and you’ll notice things becoming strange just beyond the village of Dial Post. Here, [more…]
Janis Paige obituary
Janis Paige, who has died aged 101, shone in films and numerous television shows, but her greatest triumph came in the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross Tony [more…]
Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley join calls for UK creative industries anti-harassment body
A collection of stellar British film industry names, including Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Naomie Harris, have joined calls to ensure that funds will be [more…]
Four Little Adults review – polyamory drama shows a Finnish couple working through their issues
A rosy glow of self-satisfied emotional intelligence emanates from this film about polyamory from Finland. Alma Pöysti (from Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves) plays Juulia, a progressive [more…]
Here review – romantic connection in the forest in gentle and beguiling drama
Belgian director Bas Devos’s gentle, delicate and quietly beguiling movie, a prize winner last year in Berlin, is about love and fate. It crept up [more…]
Rosalie review – intriguing empowerment tale of a 19th century celebrity ‘bearded lady’
Here is an intriguing, if not wholly successful, attempt to create a hero for gender-fluid times and give them the full mainstream period-film trimmings. In [more…]
