Winning an Oscar for acting has never looked particularly easy, even if certain types of performances – physical transformations, celebrity impressions – always seem to
Category: Films
Schmeichel review – a spirited celebration of Man United’s great Dane
This is a pretty respectable entry in the current corporate-landfill era of sports documentaries. It’s the customary slavishly admiring portrait of its subject, the Danish
The Monkey review – slapdash splatter comedy is a grating misfire
“Everybody dies and that’s fucked up” is the tagline and emo ethos of snarky Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, a film about the inescapable inevitability
I Am Martin Parr review – enjoyable study of tragicomic Britain’s inspired photographer
The beguiling work of English photographer Martin Parr is the subject of this brief, but thoroughly enjoyable study which sets out to introduce his extraordinary
I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips
The subtlety and dignity of Fernanda Torres’s Oscar-nominated performance in Walter Salles’s new film have been rightly praised. This is a kind of mother-courage true
Julian Holloway, Carry On star and father of Sophie Dahl, dies aged 80
Julian Holloway, who starred in eight Carry On films and was a regular in TV shows such as The Sweeney and Doctor Who, has died.
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet says he has made ‘zero dollars’ from the film
Brady Corbet, the 36-year-old director behind Oscar season’s most acclaimed film, has said he – and many of his fellow nominees – are experiencing severe
‘The most important thing was getting to the truth’: how Claude Lanzmann broke all the rules to create Shoah
Forty years after its release, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) is regarded not just as one of the greatest documentaries ever made, but a film that
Why Emilia Pérez should win the best picture Oscar
Emilia Pérez, then. It’s the film set in Mexico that angered a whole load of Mexicans. The film with a transgender lead that offended many
What Marielle Knows review – teenager’s telepathic powers reveal parents’ secrets and lies
Here is a high-concept satire of bourgeois family life with all its secrets and lies from German film-maker Frédéric Hambalek; it is something to remind