Category: Films
From The Idea of You to A Family Affair: the summer of age-gap romances
A Family Affair, a new romcom from Netflix, knows the precisely calibrated fantasy it’s offering: a romance between a celebrity and a normal person, a [more…]
Loop Track review – no escape for tormented hiker on horror trek to creature-feature hell
“I just wanted some quiet. But it’s so quiet out here. And all I can hear is my brain.” New Zealand hiker Ian (Thomas Sainsbury) [more…]
Despicable Me 4 review – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive
Here’s something new in the saga of supervillain ordinariness featuring Gru the goofy animated megabaddie (voiced by Steve Carell), with his comedy bald head, pointy [more…]
Portrait of My Father review – mysterious death of father is start-point of riveting film
What are the pieces that make up a life? This thorny question lies at the heart of Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe’s riveting, emotional documentary, whose [more…]
Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the bard’s work updated on screen
What is the Shakespeare canon if not the ideal treasure trove of IP? Truancy laws mandate that students develop at the very least a passing [more…]
Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi review – football anime gets the battle royale-treatment
Like Squid Game meets Shaolin Soccer, this feature-length extrapolation of Muneyuki Kaneshiro’s popular manga and anime set in a football training academy treats the beautiful [more…]
‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself
There’s a state that veteran Hollywood actors can reach, beyond ravenous ambition, but with retirement still distant, that seems to make them contented as professionals [more…]
Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers
Depending on your age, Andrew McCarthy’s Brats (Disney+, from 5 July) will either be a cosy nostalgia trip or a window into another era of [more…]
Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention
Mike Leigh has criticised UK voters considering abstention at this year’s general election, saying the subjects of his 2018 historical drama Peterloo would be appalled [more…]
Head of France’s cinema agency sentenced to three years for sexual assault of godson
Dominique Boutonnat, the head of France’s powerful National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), was on Friday given a three-year prison sentence, including [more…]
