Category: Films
Terry Jenkins obituary
My friend Terry Jenkins, who has died aged 77, was a film cameraman who worked for more than 30 years in television and on documentaries. [more…]
‘Beyond marketing, beyond explanation’: how Inside Out and Despicable Me saved the summer
Five weeks ago, Hollywood was in the doldrums. A succession of hotly tipped blockbusters – The Fall Guy, Furiosa, IF – flopped. The mood was [more…]
‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’
Immersive research into the everyday lives of normal people conducted by the actor Kevin Bacon has arrived at a startling conclusion: it’s not as good [more…]
James Bond has an Andrew Tate problem. The answer is to set it in the 1960s | Ben Child
Who should be the next James Bond? Book-makers seem to think it might be Jonathan Bailey, of Bridgerton fame, while Aaron Taylor-Johnson, James Norton, Taron [more…]
Post your questions for Rob Delaney
The weekend has started well for Rob Delaney, who is celebrating the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn to his Islington North constituency as an independent candidate. [more…]
Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles
A Family Affair, currently one of the most-watched movies on Netflix, is like Amazon’s recent movie The Idea of You, only reconfigured to more explicitly [more…]
Unicorns star Jason Patel: ‘If you don’t toot your own horn, who else will?’
When Jason Patel was young – a self-described “sassy teen” growing up in Manchester – he was told by a family friend to drop his [more…]
David Duchovny: ‘I’m not just throwing on a kilt willy-nilly’
Is it true that you were completely broke and willing to give up acting when the offer for The X-Files turned up? feirefitzNo. I was [more…]
The Mummy review – Brendan Fraser’s action-adventure is as lovably goofy as ever
Twenty-five years ago, action-adventure maestro Stephen Sommers had a big summer hit on his hands; as writer and director he had revived the renowned Universal [more…]
Lily Gladstone likens Golden Globes to Squid Game: ‘You’re in shapewear, you need to pee’
Lily Gladstone has compared awards ceremonies to Squid Game, the brutal Netflix drama about a group of desperate contestants who compete in a series of [more…]
