Like an unusually designed coat featuring quirky details and an interesting fabric choice from a young designer’s first collection, Swedish writer-director Mika Gustafson’s feature debut
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‘It made him an A-lister’: John Ford’s breakthrough film The Iron Horse at 100
Had the Oscars been around in 1924, when director John Ford’s epic western The Iron Horse was released, the critically lauded film would have swept
Natural Born Killers at 30: Oliver Stone’s brash button-pusher remains tiresome
By way of introduction, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers offers grainy, black-and-white images of the arid south-west that flicker disjointedly to a red tint. There
Broca’s Aphasia review – Taiwanese sex doll service offers eerie insight into male domain
Named after a neurological disorder that impairs speech, Su Ming-yen’s documentary feature debut is preoccupied with the loss of human intimacy. Broca’s Aphasia follows a
Last Things review – stones yield up their memories in poetic vision of life on Earth
Moving from the microscopic to the intergalactic, artist and film-maker Deborah Stratman offers a strikingly expansive vision of life on Earth, one that deliberately decentres
The return of Beetlejuice, Gladiator, Paddington and the Joker – the best films of autumn 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Tim Burton’s fantasy horror-comedy, with Michael Keaton as the anarchic supernatural exorcist Beetlejuice, was a big hit in the 1980s. Now, Burton returns
Bad apple? How Disney’s Snow White remake turned sour
In theory, it must have sounded like a good idea. At least to Hollywood movie studio executives keen to make big bucks by playing it
Alain Delon buried in ‘strictest privacy’ in grounds of his estate
Alain Delon had expressed the wish to be buried just like “anyone else”. But as a crowd of journalists, television crews and fans gathered outside
‘Eager not to miss it’: Hollywood glitz sto return to Venice film festival
It is hard to think of the Venice film festival without recalling glamorous images of couture-clad stars walking down the red carpet or kicking back
Incoming review – Netflix’s Superbad-esque comedy is super unfunny
There are a few tried and true staples of the American high school: yellow buses, homecoming, prom, the social safari that is the school cafeteria.