Minutes into I Am: Céline Dion, the beloved singer’s remarkably unguarded documentary chronicling her struggle with a rare neurological disorder, the queen of power ballads
Category: Films
Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?
This week, a new Russell Crowe movie is released. The film concerns a demon that comes to inhabit a person, and the struggles of a
The Convert review – Guy Pearce tries to keep the peace in Māori period drama
Lee Tamahori’s stately period drama is based around a British settlement in New Zealand circa the 1830s, where Guy Pearce’s preacher protagonist attempts to keep
‘They ride, they drink, they get dangerous’: the blazing film inspired by the Hells Angels’ biggest rivals
Anyone less like a Hells Angel would be difficult to imagine. Yet Jeff Nichols – this genial, softly spoken director, with his pink face and
Diane von Fürstenberg: Woman in Charge review – hedonist fashion-biz phenom has tales to tell
So many fashion documentaries are frigid and vapid; this one, though, from film-makers Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, has a story to tell about someone
Something in the Water review – Bridezilla vs Jaws as shark stalks seagoing wedding party
One memorable moment in Jaws, the granddaddy of shark movies, has Robert Shaw’s grizzled Ahab-esque salty seadog tell the story of his gnarliest ever shark
‘Someone who looked like me’: the women who created Black Barbie
You don’t have to be a Barbie girl to be interested in Black Barbie: A Documentary, the history of the first Black Barbie in 1980
A Dry White Season review – Marlon Brando heads starry cast in ground-breaking apartheid drama
In the late 80s, there were a number of films about apartheid South Africa that somehow made the black experience dramatically subordinate to white liberal
Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability
The superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimée made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and everywhere else with a presence
‘He was a perfect, beautiful woman’: the female impersonator who became a 1920s star
Over a hundred years ago, a cis man rose to superstardom as a female impersonator. His proto-drag persona was so popular – and accepted into