The recent, long-awaited, cratering of the superhero movie (with a notable Deadpool-sized exception) has led to a mad scramble – release dates pushed, marketing strategies
Category: Films
A Nightmare on Elm Street review – jauntily outrageous slasher is still cheerfully crass
With his hat, claw glove and dodgy knitwear, Freddy Krueger gifted the world’s children an easy costume for Halloween and – given the novelisations –
Idris Elba to move to Africa ‘to bolster the film industry’
Idris Elba has said he is planning to move to Africa as part of his plans to bolster the sub-Saharan film industry, saying “it’s going
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band review – still blowing minds after 50 years
Bruce Springsteen fans get liner notes of the most luxurious, informed and immersive kind with this documentary by longtime Springsteen chronicler Thom Zimny, who charts
Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify
‘The field … it’s covered in blood!” This is the young visionary rabbit Fiver, voiced by Richard Briers, in the British animation from 1978 by
The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing
When this film won the Golden Lion for Pedro Almodóvar at the Venice film festival this summer, there were three kinds of surprised critic. Some
Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement
This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV
The terrifying true story behind Woman of the Hour: ‘He was born with half a soul’
“I am serving you for dinner,” said Cheryl Bradshaw, “What are you called and what do you look like?” Bachelor number one, Rodney Alcala, replied:
Classified review – Aaron Eckhart hitman thriller mines newspaper ads for coded messages
This decidedly shonky, if at least relatively unpretentious, action film stars Aaron Eckhart, once very much the coming man who’s not had the career you
Paddington Bear given UK passport by Home Office
He has been one of the UK’s favourite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now Paddington Bear – official name Paddington Brown