The journalism industry today looks strikingly different to the journalism industry of 70-odd years ago, when Billy Wilder’s 1951 masterpiece, Ace in the Hole, rolled
Category: Films
Joker sequel on course for catastrophic $200m loss – reports
Joker: Folie à Deux is on course for a catastrophic financial loss of up to $200m (£153m) as its dismal box office run continues amid
MadS review – one-shot French horror is an impressive exercise in tension and mood
You’re young, you’re high, you’re carefree, you’re tooling around in daddy’s best car … when a heavily bandaged and bleeding young woman jumps into your
Harrison Ford keeps working for ‘human contact’. Could he be any more beloved?
Imagine for a moment that you are Harrison Ford in the year 2024. You are 82 years old, and arguably one of the last living
My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal
‘People are attracted to strength. Power is entertainment,” proclaims wannabe world saviour Dark Might (voiced by Kenta Miyake) in this fourth film spin-off from the
Kulej. Dwie Strony Medalu review – glossy boxing biopic is Poland’s answer to Raging Bull
This is a glossily shot but overlong biopic of two-time Olympic gold-winning boxer Jerzy Kulej that tries to position him as a kind of errant
Pulp Fiction at 30: Quentin Tarantino’s masterwork remains electric
Opening Pulp Fiction with the literal two-part definition of “pulp” is a wink and a nudge on writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s part, funny in retrospect when
Garçonnières review – male insecurities revealed as film goes back to the man cave
In an era where conversations between strangers often take place through screens, Céline Pernet’s playful documentary seeks answers the (almost) old-fashioned way. Curious about the
‘One of the most vicious people of our century’: Maria Bakalova on Donald Trump – and playing Ivana in The Apprentice
The week Maria Bakalova was asked to consider playing Ivana Trump for the new film The Apprentice, she was in New York filming something else.
‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono
From sit-ins for peace to avant-garde happenings and covert surveillance of revolutionary sympathies, the world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono can seem removed from