Artists don’t come much more outsider than RaMell Ross. He once mailed himself across the US in a wooden crate. He says things like: “What
Category: Films
Becoming Madonna review – a megastar’s extraordinary ascent to pop royalty
The story of Madonna’s leap to stratospheric celebrity is breathlessly and efficiently retold in this documentary that uses only archive clips and existing audio interview
And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year
The time has come once more for me to present my “Braddies”, a strictly personal awards list for films getting a UK release in the
UK box office forecast to top £1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall
The UK box office is forecast to surpass £1bn next year for the first time in six years, but cinema bosses still say moviegoing will
Better Man review – Robbie Williams becomes CGI chimp in surreal biopic
Robbie Williams – only he is a chimp! This is a pretty trad music biopic, coming with the accepted U-shaped narrative arc of humble beginnings,
The Order review – Jude Law does solid work in vehement account of white supremacists’ takedown
Justin Kurzel directs a workmanlike true-crime thriller about a real-life American white supremacist movement called the Order, which, in the 1980s, murdered Jewish radio journalist
Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87
Jack Bond, a British film-maker who worked on a string of avant garde films in the 1960s and 70s with Jane Arden, and went on
Shyam Benegal, influential director of India’s ‘parallel cinema’, dies aged 90
Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian film-maker known for pioneering a new wave cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died aged 90
Twisters! Tennis! Transformations! The best movie moments of 2024
The transformation – Nightbitch View image in fullscreen Amy Adams’s canine transformation in Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch should be nothing we haven’t seen before. There is
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale
The title makes it sound like some goofy Brit crime comedy; in fact it’s a sweet, sad heart-warmer from Thailand, whose original title Lahn Mah,