David Stratton’s newest book – a weighty tome chronicling contemporary Australian cinema – will probably be the last published material from the beloved critic and
Category: Films
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom review – intriguing fantasy franchise is far from your average anime
Starting with the customary lore-hosing and predicated on the usual tumescent brawls and characters declaiming their power moves, Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom is still a
Pedro Páramo review – Mexican magic realism is full of time slippages and perspective shifts
Here is a new adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 magic-realist novel that later inspired Gabriel García Márquez, among others; judging by the non-linear tangle of
What are the best and worst movies about elections?
The US presidential election takes up an enormous amount of space in the news cycle; even a reset and abbreviated race, like the one between
Paddington in Peru review – you can take the bear out of South America, but think twice before taking him back
Just as jolly as the previous two films, but not really as funny, Paddington in Peru is a sweet-natured and primary-colour family adventure which takes
I regret glamorising the Kray twins, says producer of hit film
In the hit 1990 film The Krays, the East End gangsters were portrayed as “identical twins who rose from poverty to power”, “from obscurity to
‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content
In an era when social media has turned us all into products to promote, Keke Palmer is the whole damn corporation. As a one-woman multimedia,
Bill Nighy: I stole complete works of Shakespeare to help me get into drama school
Bill Nighy once stole the complete works of William Shakespeare from a library to help him get into drama school – but says he now
Singham Again – third time around for Ajay Devgn’s supercop leading selection box of star names
Opening with a special shoutout to the Jammu & Kashmir police, this is the fifth entry in the so-called Cop Universe envisioned by producer-director Rohit
Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks
Some years ago I interviewed the British director Edgar Wright about his favourite soundtrack albums. I mentioned that, in the age before videos, I had