outstanding British contribution to cinema here – they’re a brilliant outfit which builds cinemas in hospitals. Whet your appetite further with titbits about this year’s
Category: Films
Film-maker Walter Salles: ‘Cinema, as opposed to noise, used to be at the heart of the Oscars’
Walter Salles, 68, is Brazil’s most internationally celebrated film-maker. He came to global prominence in 1998 with the poignant road movie Central Station, which won
Dreams review – Jessica Chastain channels rich Americans whose charity comes with strings
Mexican director Michel Franco returns with a chilly, angrily intense and deeply pessimistic tale of erotic obsession among the liberal super-rich in Trump’s US who
Mickey 17 review – Robert Pattinson proves expendable in Bong Joon-ho’s eerily cheery cloning drama
The Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho has delivered his first movie since the Oscar-winning Parasite six years ago, and it’s a great, big, slightly soft-edged, sci-fi
Ari review – a French primary teacher flunks out in daydreaming misfire
French film-maker Leonore Serraille has come to Berlin with a peculiar, unformed and unsatisfyingly developed feature, something that does not really deliver the truthful insights
Das Licht (The Light) review – mystical satirical romp channels German anxiety over refugees
Here is a weirdly incoherent and very long aria of semi-comic dismay from white-liberal Europe, and from a Germany whose bold “Wir schaffen das” –
‘Another woke disaster from Hollywood!’ How Captain America joined the culture wars
Of all the times to recast the most iconically American comic-book character with a Black actor and then pit him against a violently angry supervillain
Edible popcorn bucket and vegan caviar on the menu as Baftas embrace sustainability
An edible popcorn bucket and a Bafta-branded tub of vegan caviar are among the treats that await awards-goers after this year’s film ceremony. Approximately 2,000
‘It became a lifeline’: the charity bringing cinema to hospital patients
‘MediCinema is part of my life,” says 12-year-old Lucas Rae-Shreenan. “It just takes me away from what else is happening.” Lucas has been going to
‘Such a bummer’: Netflix responds to Emilia Pérez fallout
A senior executive at Netflix has responded for the first time to the controversy that has hobbled the chances of Emilia Pérez, its key Oscars