A woman’s work is never done in Chantal Akerman’s icily deadpan, degree-zero movie from 1975, now on rerelease for its 50th anniversary. Over three hours
Category: Films
Kinda Pregnant review – Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kinda disappointing
Let me be clear: I am always rooting for Amy Schumer, though sometimes she makes it difficult. When she is good, she is great –
The rise and fall of Emilia Pérez: how did it all go so wrong for the Oscar-nominated film and its star?
You can generally tell when awards season is going well for a movie because its stars are everywhere, attending galas, treading red carpets, doing as
Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg
Jesse Eisenberg, who received widespread recognition for his role as the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, has said he no longer wants
David Lynch’s death shocks smokers into quitting: ‘It’s just not good for us’
David Lynch was a smoker. With an American Spirit perpetually locked between his teeth, he figured fire and smoke as magical textures in his films.
Tomato and basilica: in Conclave, Stanley Tucci plays Stanley Tucci – and I couldn’t be happier
Conclave, quite rightly, is nominated for a number of Oscars this year. This, I suspect, is down to how successfully it managed to construct a
Shanghai Blues review – delirious screwball comedy from Hong Kong’s Spielberg
It’s impossible not to be carried along by the delirious rush of silliness in this knockabout screwball comedy from 1984, directed by Hong Kong genre
Dog Man review – goofy gags galore as the Franken-pooch takes on a fiendish feline
Like an outbreak of head lice, there comes a moment in primary school when it turns out every kid in class has a copy of
Beyond the Borders review – Zoe Saldaña shines in timely tragedy-flecked thriller
This competent but somewhat predictable drama, which strobes between settings in Mexico and Texas, emerged two years ago under the title The Absence of Eden
Bring Them Down review – Barry Keoghan farmer-feud revenge drama goes right over the top
A tang of bad blood rises from this flawed revenge-feud drama set in the rural west of Ireland from first-time feature director Christopher Andrews, in