When Madonna posted an image of the Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón on Instagram recently, the word she scrawled above it in vivid pink letters
Category: Films
Mitzi Gaynor, dancer and actor from South Pacific, dies aged 93
Mitzi Gaynor, the dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of South Pacific and appeared in other musicals with Bing
Smile 2 review – gory pop star horror sequel sings a familiar tune
When Smile, an original low-budget horror movie, became a surprise smash hit in 2022, it was a success story that was easier to admire than
Alvin Rakoff, veteran director of British TV and film, dies aged 97
Alvin Rakoff, prolific director and producer of scores of film and TV productions including Requiem for a Heavyweight, Passport to Shame and A Dance to
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum review – glory and geekery
You’ll need a pretty high geek tolerance level for this very detailed and specialised account of Sir Clive Sinclair’s bestselling ZX Spectrum home computer, whose
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter
A rogue preposition in the title betrays this film’s distinctive, dartingly eccentric idiom: not “of deeper things” but “to deeper things”. It is about neglected
How the gory Terrifier movies became a shock phenomenon
Conventional wisdom may dictate that you need a guy dressed up as a bat to properly defeat the Joker. But this past weekend, the indie
Why did Joker 2 lose so much money? And how on earth did it cost so much in the first place?
To quote Heath Ledger’s version of the clown prince of crime, maybe some wag should be scrawling “Why so serious?” on glass-fronted offices at Warner
Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party review – 80s solid-rock nostalgia fest is a trip
A king of AM radio in the US and stalwart of the Spotify playlists of anyone with a taste for solid, four-square old-school rock, Tom
Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka
There are director’s cuts, special editions, redux versions – and then there’s Mr Kneff. Normally, a recut film is the prerogative of a film-maker who