The actor Matt Bomer has claimed that he missed out on being cast as the lead in an axed 2003 Superman movie Flyby because of
Category: Films
Sorcery review – orphaned girl out for revenge in unsettling Indigenous horror
Just as the 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent reversed the terms of the Aguirre-style colonialist expedition picture, this Chilean-Mexican-German collaboration (produced by Pablo Larraín)
Hounds review – pitch-black comedy drama of hapless Moroccan dog-fighting hoodlums
Kamal Lazraq is a Moroccan film-maker who had been a prize winner at Cannes for his student film Drari; now he makes his feature debut
The Moor review – Yorkshire-set missing-kids chiller is formidable folk horror debut
Looking for a group of long-missing children on a patch of moorland, podcaster Claire (Sophia La Porta) thinks she has defined her search area. But
Wilding review – farmland returns to nature in green and leafy conservation study
You’ll never look at a green and pleasant pasture in the same way again after watching this documentary about the rewilding project at the Knepp
Speed at 30: the greatest action movie of the 1990s
At a time of overwhelming entertainment bloat – budget, length, content, discussion – a ride back to the summer of 1994 and the brisk, brilliant
Memoir of a Snail review – charming, poignant tale of troubled twins
Like Britain’s Nick Park at Aardman, Australian stop-motion film-maker Adam Elliott has shown a natural talent for screenwriting comedy – and for fusing that with
Unsung Hero review – real-life journey of Christian music migrants from Australia
Given the current attitudes in what is now largely Republican Tennessee where this film is set, it’s somewhat surprising to see such a sympathetic depiction
Gremlins at 40: Joe Dante’s untamed classic is a love letter to chaos
There’s no character in Joe Dante’s Gremlins more beloved than Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton), a struggling inventor from small-town Kingston Falls who travels the country
Revealed: Otto by Otto review – nuanced portrait of a generational talent
All documentaries celebrating artistic geniuses face the challenge of how to recognise their talent without coming across as pure puffery. The dynamic is different in