Danish film-maker Lars von Trier, who has Parkinson’s disease, has been admitted to a care centre, his production company said on Wednesday. One of the
Category: Films
Captain America: Brave New World review – Harrison Ford juggles green screens, red fists and vanilla plotting
‘Brave” it might be, but there’s nothing all that “new” about the world revealed in this latest tired and uninspired dollop of content from the
The Dead Thing review – sexy state-of-dating thriller opens up the algorithmic death-drive
A ghosting story as much as a ghost story, this film sees twentysomething office drone Alex (Blu Hunt) strike gold on dating app called Friktion.
To a Land Unknown review – Palestinian refugees seek a better life, whatever it takes
There are strong performances and storytelling energy in this fiction feature debut from Danish-Palestinian film-maker Mahdi Fleifel, a graduate of the UK’s National Film and
Women achieve gender parity with men in US big screen lead roles for first time
Women achieved gender parity on the big screen in 2024 for the first time in the US, according to two new studies. Out of the
Mom review – neonatal horror leaves new mother in nightmare of guilt and terror
Descending fully inside postnatal depression and psychosis, this horror film blends hallucination, premonition, memory and flashback; what it loses in storytelling precision it makes up
Gravy cocktail, anyone? Wallace & Gromit’s cheese-free dining venture is far from cracking
Ever since A Grand Day Out was released in 1989, we as a nation have grasped Wallace & Gromit to our collective heart like nothing
The Baby in the Basket review – devilish convent horror is low-budget nun fun
This cheap-as-chips British horror concerning demented nuns is risible in the extreme, but there’s something about its willingness to commit to the bit that’s sort
Cottontail review – life lessons are learnt in tender, Beatrix Potter-inspired tale
The curse of Beatrix Potter-associated cinema – from the lamentable Peter Rabbit films to the merely dismal Miss Potter – is lifted, at least temporarily,
Rosinha and Other Wild Animals review – repudiation of Portugal’s ‘gentle’ colonialism
For a film that grapples with the legacy of colonialism, Marta Pessoa’s documentary begins with a rather provocative title card – it says: “Portugal is