The Lumière festival in Lyon in south-east France – the home of 19th-century movie inventor-pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière – always serves up mouthwatering classic
Category: Films
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
When this lenient and indulgent TV movie-style treatment of Donald Trump’s early adventures in 70s landlordism premiered at Cannes earlier this year, I thought he
Ace in the Hole: a strikingly relevant and cyclonically witty take on the media
The journalism industry today looks strikingly different to the journalism industry of 70-odd years ago, when Billy Wilder’s 1951 masterpiece, Ace in the Hole, rolled
Joker sequel on course for catastrophic $200m loss – reports
Joker: Folie à Deux is on course for a catastrophic financial loss of up to $200m (£153m) as its dismal box office run continues amid
MadS review – one-shot French horror is an impressive exercise in tension and mood
You’re young, you’re high, you’re carefree, you’re tooling around in daddy’s best car … when a heavily bandaged and bleeding young woman jumps into your
Harrison Ford keeps working for ‘human contact’. Could he be any more beloved?
Imagine for a moment that you are Harrison Ford in the year 2024. You are 82 years old, and arguably one of the last living
My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal
‘People are attracted to strength. Power is entertainment,” proclaims wannabe world saviour Dark Might (voiced by Kenta Miyake) in this fourth film spin-off from the
Kulej. Dwie Strony Medalu review – glossy boxing biopic is Poland’s answer to Raging Bull
This is a glossily shot but overlong biopic of two-time Olympic gold-winning boxer Jerzy Kulej that tries to position him as a kind of errant
Pulp Fiction at 30: Quentin Tarantino’s masterwork remains electric
Opening Pulp Fiction with the literal two-part definition of “pulp” is a wink and a nudge on writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s part, funny in retrospect when
Garçonnières review – male insecurities revealed as film goes back to the man cave
In an era where conversations between strangers often take place through screens, Céline Pernet’s playful documentary seeks answers the (almost) old-fashioned way. Curious about the