Category: Films
From Twister to Titanic: writers on their favourite disaster movies
Deep Impact View image in fullscreen While sadness is never too far from the frame in the disaster genre – the majority of films, after [more…]
Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s Sam Altman would make a good Marvel villain after voice dispute
Scarlett Johansson has spoken out against OpenAI and deepfake technology, saying it was “so disturbing” and she was “so angry” after the company seemingly mimicked [more…]
Birdeater review – nightmarish buck’s party in the bush becomes faintly preposterous
Great horror movies and psychological thrillers come on like magic spells, pushing us into incantatory spaces where we kind of want to run for the [more…]
My Spy: The Eternal City review – Dave Bautista’s daddy-daughter spy comedy heads to Rome
Former wrestler Dave Bautista has the chops, as they say, for comedy. He was terrific in the ensemble of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, [more…]
Sessue Hayakawa: cinema’s forgotten sex symbol who was saved from death by his dog
This month, the Cinema Rediscovered festival in Bristol will screen a rarely seen film from 1919 that offers a glimpse of the early career of [more…]
Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut
In the back of Annie Baker’s office at home in New York, a spectral presence is just visible in silhouette against the window. It turns [more…]
Forrest Gump review – Tom Hanks’ chocolate box hero still gets under your skin
Robert Zemeckis’s comedy drama is rereleased for its 30th anniversary, starring Tom Hanks as its savant-patriot hero goof from the fictional town of Greenbow, Alabama. [more…]
Skywalkers: A Love Story review – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary
Love is quite literally in the air for Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus. They’re the daredevil Russian couple who make a living “rooftopping”, as in [more…]
Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost
There is a terrific warmth and emotional generosity to this romantic comedy-drama from the Welsh film-maker Janis Pugh, and if the storytelling in the end [more…]
Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze
The dramatist Annie Baker won a Pulitzer for her stage play The Flick, about listless, bored ushers in an empty cinema auditorium between screenings; now [more…]
