On Halloween in 1992, the BBC spooked the nation with the mockumentary Ghostwatch, an apparently live broadcast from Britain’s most haunted house. Despite its being
Category: Films
A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary
Chinese film-maker Wenqian Zhang makes her feature debut with this amazingly intimate, emotionally painful and personal film about her dysfunctional family; completed in 2022, it
Singin’ in the nuclear rain: new films push the musical genre in a darker direction
A murderous psychopath mournfully sings his heart out in jail. A family living in a below-ground bunker chorus together about the end of the world.
The Three Michaels review – trio of Michael Jackson lookalikes reach for the stars
British film-maker Tom Goudsmit has chosen a quintessentially American subject for his first feature-length documentary: people seeking to better their lots by impersonating, or just
Sally Field recalls her ‘hideous’ illegal abortion at 17 as she urges voters to back Kamala Harris
Sally Field has spoken about the “hideous” and “traumatic” illegal abortion she underwent as a 17-year-old in 1964, as she called on voters to get
Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’
Suffering abounds in Adam Elliot’s dark and deadpan films. The Melbourne animator’s claymation characters overdose and lose testicles or imbibe on an array of poisons;
Motherboard to Nightbitch: maternity in spotlight at London film festival
When she was 38, Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant and broke. She had to quit her job as a TV director because the long
Traffic wardens issue tickets for vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set
Filming for a new movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis was interrupted when traffic wardens in Chester began putting parking tickets on 1980s vehicles being used in
Michel Blanc, star of Monsieur Hire, dies aged 72
Michel Blanc, beloved by generations for bringing a comic quality to even his saddest characters including losers and hypochondriacs, died on Friday aged 72, his
‘My disability is the least interesting thing about me’: Actor Adam Pearson on fame, film and his sibling rivalry
Adam Pearson has a longstanding argument with his mother, Marilyn, about how well-known he is. The tension is most likely to surface when they are