Mel Brooks’s outrageously broad and deliriously silly black-and-white comedy, co-written with its neurotically bequiffed star Gene Wilder, is re-released for its 50th anniversary. Their lovingly
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An Inspector Calls review – Alastair Sim drawing room drama brilliantly exposes its era’s hypocrisies
JB Priestley’s drawing-room melodrama of Edwardian guilt and fear is rereleased for its 70th anniversary; it is an intricate clockwork mechanism ticking inexorably to the
The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama
It takes a certain type of person to have a dog in New York City, let alone a 180lb, questionably behaved one. Iris, played with
John Boyega to play Otis Redding in new biopic alongside Danielle Deadwyler
John Boyega is set to play Otis Redding in a new film telling the story of the soul singer’s decade-long relationship. Otis & Zelma will
House of Spoils review – Ariana DeBose’s foodie horror is a light snack
Thanks to both the low cost and high competition 0f streaming content, the lead-up to Halloween has become increasingly congested in recent years, each platform
Paul McWilliams obituary
My brother Paul McWilliams, who has died aged 43 of a brain tumour, was a visual effects specialist who worked on films including Sweeney Todd:
Fountain of youth: The Substance and movies’ obsession with fictional drugs
Cinema is a hell of a drug. For movie lovers, a trip to the pictures is just that, a two (or, increasingly, six) hour psychoactive
Die Before You Die review – stunt vlogger comes undone in buried-alive survival thriller
Adi (Ziad Abaza, also the film’s co-scriptwriter) is the kind of loud-mouthed wide boy you’d change seats to get away from in a restaurant. Although
Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite
The inevitability of even more Stephen King adaptations, in the wake of It’s record-breaking success back in 2017, has rarely felt associated with all that
Inherit the Witch review – like an am-dram theatre group doing a murder mystery party in an Airbnb
Starring, written and directed by Cradeaux Alexander, this is a low-budget tale of the occult, and not a very good one at that. If you’re