It has graced tea towels and cushions, mugs and socks, and spawned numerous Instagram accounts and coffee table books galore. Now brutalism, the once-maligned postwar
Category: Films
Luther: Never Too Much review – the mystery and brilliance of ‘love doctor’ Vandross
All of the mystery and certainty of love is carried in Luther Vandross’s radiant singing voice. On uptempo tracks he seems suffused with joy; on
‘Denzel was scheming, powerful and sexy!’: readers’ worst Oscar snubs
‘People are doing Dev Patel a disservice’ Monkey Man! I’ve heard very little of this thriller in reviewers’ top films of 2024, or lists of
By the Stream review – Hong Sang-soo’s likably restrained pastoral comedy of campus life
The startlingly prolific Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo has, apparently with the ease of simply taking another breath, produced another of his lo-fi urban-pastoral comedies; these
I’ve Never Wanted Anyone More review – Goethe’s Werther remade as charming contempo romcom
Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s 1774 epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther was one of the most influential books of its age, in part responsible for
Zodiac Killer Project review – true crime critique rescues aborted documentary
If Laurence Sterne made a true-crime documentary it might resemble this exasperating, sometimes negligible but also often amusing and rather insightful personal work from British
Oh, Hi! review – promising romantic comedy takes awkward turn into farce
Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) are a thirtysomething couple enjoying an almost absurdly romantic weekend upstate. They’re singing in the car (she’s Dolly,
Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Jennifer Lopez dazzles in unsteady musical
There are certain things one expects from a prime-slot Sundance premiere. Crowd-pleasing character-based comedies, rural mood-over-plot dramas, provocative and probing documentaries; all tied together by
Jeannot Szwarc obituary
Jeannot Szwarc, who has died aged 85, directed Jaws 2 (1978), Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus: The Movie (1985). This could be described as a
Actor Michele Austin: ‘Mike Leigh has a wicked sense of humour’
Born in London, Michele Austin trained at Rose Bruford College before beginning a wide-ranging career on television, film and stage. She was Yvonne Hemmingway in