They came for Rubens Paiva one Wednesday lunchtime in January 1971, barging into his beachfront home in Rio and carting him off – to where
Category: Films
‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli
As the repeatedly stalled Madonna biopic has shown, it’s difficult to make a film about a real-life icon, especially when the icon in question has
National Anthem review – dreamy study of queer rodeo riders making hay while the sun shines
Director Luke Gilford’s first feature-length work (after some shorts and music videos) shares aesthetic genetic material with his photographic book and exhibition of the same
The Commander review – true story of patriotic heroism tries to avoid being political football
Here is a stolid second world war drama, directed by Edoardo de Angelis, taken from a patriotic true story of non-fascist Italian decency during the
‘I hope this haunts you’: Kate Winslet says Titanic-era body-shamers were ‘absolutely appalling’
Kate Winslet has broken down at the memory of being told she was overweight by journalists on the red carpet as a 22-year-old. Speaking on
Nocturnes review – entrancing film on how to study moths by night in the Himalayas
This extremely slow, meditative documentary about a scientist and her assistant studying moths in the eastern Himalayas can only be fully appreciated if it’s watched
Porcelain War review – beautifully rendered portrait of Ukraine’s artist-warriors
Compared with the award-winning The Earth Is As Blue As an Orange from 2020, which charted a Ukrainian family’s attempt to make a film during
Favoriten review – charming kids’ eye view of an inner city Vienna primary
There are some big personalities in the class of seven-year-olds in an inner city Vienna primary school in this rather lovely and compassionate documentary. It
Nosferatu review – Robert Eggers’s respectful homage to a vampire horror classic
Here is Robert Eggers’s avowed passion project as writer-director: a luxury-arthouse remake on a grand scale, paying homage to FW Murnau’s classic silent film from
Moana 2 leads record-breaking Thanksgiving box office in North America
Christmas came early at the box office this year. Moana 2 brought in a tidal wave of moviegoers over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, setting records