The film industry is obsessed with box office figures. The Tinseltown trades spend far more time focusing on whichever recent blockbuster has lost $200m than
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Summer Camp review – Diane Keaton and pals reunite in so-so friendship comedy
The many gasps that met the $100m-plus box office total for 2018’s Book Club were not quite shared by all. The film, a frothy comedy
‘People are looking to forgive him’: inside Will Smith’s carefully choreographed comeback
In one of those dumb ironies that can abound in Hollywood, the first Will Smith movie to be greenlit since the slap in March 2022
Young Woman and the Sea review – Disney’s surface-level swimming biopic lacks depth
Born to German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York, Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle crawl-stroked her way through the American dream. In spite of great adversity – a
Happy 94th birthday Clint Eastwood: his best films – ranked!
20. Every Which Way But Loose (1978) Against all advice, Clint Eastwood switched direction with a knockabout comedy that would be one of his biggest
The Crow review – Brandon Lee’s heavy metal horror is a potent goth fantasy
Just over 30 years ago, emerging action star Brandon Lee – son of Bruce Lee – was killed by a prop gun accident, fatally shot
Trans actor Karla Sofía Gascón sues French far-right politician after ‘sexist insult’
The first transgender woman to be awarded the best actress prize at the Cannes film festival filed a legal complaint on Wednesday over a “sexist
Sting review – low-budget alien-spider horror offers laughs and out-of-your-skin shocks
This killer-spider-from-outer-space movie feels like a cross between Alien and TV’s Only Murders in the Building. It’s a mostly fun throwback horror comedy set in
The Girl in the Trunk review – claustrophobic car-boot kidnap thriller
This claustrophobic thriller takes place almost entirely in the boot of a rented car moving down an empty Texas highway. Bride Amanda (Katharina Sporrer), still
Ron Howard on Jim Henson: ‘You could see there was nothing to hide’
Before he became the world’s most famous puppeteer – the man responsible for The Muppets and Big Bird; and turning David Bowie into the Goblin