Twenty-five years ago, we saw one of the most impressive debut features in modern British movie history. Ratcatcher, by the 29-year-old Glasgow film-maker Lynne Ramsay,
Category: Films
The Greatest Hits review – cutesy music romance plays a forgettable tune
In the often insufferably cutesy romance The Greatest Hits, our heroine travels back in time whenever a song from her past is played, nostalgia acting
Civil War review – Alex Garland’s delirious dive into divided US society
Writer-director Alex Garland stages a spectacular if evasively apolitical “civil war” in this futurist-dystopian action thriller, involving hundreds of extras lying on the road next
The Promised Land review – Andrzej Wajda’s anti-capitalist comic opera is still razor sharp
Andrzej Wajda’s queasily compelling film from 1975, adapted by him from a novel by Wladysław Reymont, is an expressionist comic opera of toxic capitalism and
Bleeding Love review – Ewan McGregor and daughter Clara are toe-curlingly terrible in rehab flick
Ewan McGregor co-stars with his daughter Clara McGregor in this avowedly personal story of a guy going on a road trip with his estranged 20-year-old
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold review – story of disaster told through government inquiry
It’s been over a century since the RMS Titanic disaster, and while all manner of catastrophes have happened since, somehow this one haunts the imagination
Forty years and $120m later: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis to debut at Cannes
After months shrouded in controversy – and 40 years in the making – Francis Ford Coppola’s feature Megalopolis will debut at Cannes film festival in
Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, the musical sequel to Joker starring Oscar winners Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, has been revealed. The
Leo Woodall to join Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant for Bridget Jones 4
Following months of speculation, the studio behind Bridget Jones has confirmed their heroine will return for a fourth big screen outing, adapted from Helen Fielding’s
‘Her demons were probably worse’: does Back to Black reveal the real Amy Winehouse?
From the moment it was announced, in July 2022, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black has been plagued by controversy, with fans criticising everything