Dev Patel brings the gonzo chaos for this very impressive writing-directing feature debut, with Jordan Peele on board as a producer; it’s a wildly over-the-top
Category: Films
Seize Them! review – revolting peasants make merry in medieval times
There’s a mega-helping of daftness, silliness and goofiness in this wacky British comedy of Ye Olden Medieval Dayes from screenwriter Andy Riley and director Curtis
Ken Loach speaks out in support of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘occupation’ Oscar speech
Veteran British director Ken Loach has added his support to Jonathan Glazer over the latter’s controversial Oscar acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest. In
One Night in Millstreet review – vivid look back to mighty Collins-Eubank rumble
Here is a boxing documentary that is a cut above the usual back-slapping nostalgia – largely down to the canny, vivid presences of its two
Io Capitano review – chilling indictment of the refugee exploitation economy
Matteo Garrone’s new film is part adventure story, part slavery drama; the slavery which did not in fact vanish with the end of the American
The Trouble With Jessica review – Shirley Henderson leads satire on London liberals
There are echoes of Carnage and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in this satire of north London liberals. It’s an original script but has the
Yannick review – Quentin Dupieux goes for laughs in absurdist theatre hijack comedy
Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly small number of film-makers on the non-Anglo-American distribution circuit who really is interested in – and allowed to
Louis Gossett Jr obituary
The actor Lou Gossett Jr, who has died aged 87, is best known for his performance in An Officer and A Gentleman (1982) as Gunnery
‘I have not been living in the Himalayas!’ The return of Spirit of the Beehive director Víctor Erice
In 1972, when Ana Torrent was six years old, a man came to her school and asked her to be in his film. “He had
‘We shot it in the murder capital of the world’ … how we made The Lost Boys
Jason Patric, played Michael Joel Schumacher, the director, wanted me in the movie right from the first time we met. But the script I read