The dramatist Annie Baker won a Pulitzer for her stage play The Flick, about listless, bored ushers in an empty cinema auditorium between screenings; now
Category: Films
Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?
It was a plot twist that could only come from Tyler Perry: four years after announcing an $800m expansion of his 330-acre (328-hectare) film and
Waterloo Sunset review – inside an oasis of affordable living
Tourists drifting out of London’s Tate Modern sometimes find themselves peering through the gates of nearby Hopton’s Almshouses, a collection of 20 pretty cottages built
Thelma review – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper
At 94, June Squibb gives a marvellous performance in this sentimental comedy from writer-director Josh Margolin, inspired by his own grandmother, a video of whom
Crossing review – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional Istanbul journey
The title wears its wan and melancholy significance a little heavily, and the trompe l’oeil ending is rather mannered, with the kind of flourish that
June Squibb on getting her first starring role at 94: ‘I don’t have to prove myself any more’
Park up the rig, Furiosa; ditch the rubber suit, Deadpool: there’s a new action hero in town. In Josh Margolin’s wildly entertaining Thelma, an elderly
Uncanny Me review – exploration of cloning tech fraught with moral and ethical questions
Doubles, doppelgangers, clones; twin visions have long fascinated directors and audiences alike. It’s unnerving, however, when technologies that once belonged to the realm of science
Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history
To screenwriters in the 1950s, she was a major power player, fighting for pay rises and striking rights. To the Hollywood studio heads, she was
‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image
It’s a beautiful day in Essex and I’m making myself at home with the Dyers. Theirs is a neat house on a hill, furnished in
Inner demons: grappling with childhood trauma in horror movies
In the first scene of Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, the director’s junior stand-in Sammy is traumatized by a train crash – not a