When Smile, an original low-budget horror movie, became a surprise smash hit in 2022, it was a success story that was easier to admire than
Category: Films
Alvin Rakoff, veteran director of British TV and film, dies aged 97
Alvin Rakoff, prolific director and producer of scores of film and TV productions including Requiem for a Heavyweight, Passport to Shame and A Dance to
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum review – glory and geekery
You’ll need a pretty high geek tolerance level for this very detailed and specialised account of Sir Clive Sinclair’s bestselling ZX Spectrum home computer, whose
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter
A rogue preposition in the title betrays this film’s distinctive, dartingly eccentric idiom: not “of deeper things” but “to deeper things”. It is about neglected
How the gory Terrifier movies became a shock phenomenon
Conventional wisdom may dictate that you need a guy dressed up as a bat to properly defeat the Joker. But this past weekend, the indie
Why did Joker 2 lose so much money? And how on earth did it cost so much in the first place?
To quote Heath Ledger’s version of the clown prince of crime, maybe some wag should be scrawling “Why so serious?” on glass-fronted offices at Warner
Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party review – 80s solid-rock nostalgia fest is a trip
A king of AM radio in the US and stalwart of the Spotify playlists of anyone with a taste for solid, four-square old-school rock, Tom
Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka
There are director’s cuts, special editions, redux versions – and then there’s Mr Kneff. Normally, a recut film is the prerogative of a film-maker who
‘Engrossing and mysterious’: the Powell-Pressburger masterpiece that might have been
The Lumière festival in Lyon in south-east France – the home of 19th-century movie inventor-pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière – always serves up mouthwatering classic
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
When this lenient and indulgent TV movie-style treatment of Donald Trump’s early adventures in 70s landlordism premiered at Cannes earlier this year, I thought he