The film world is on tenterhooks for Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming Imax-epic treatment of Homer’s Odyssey, but Uberto Pasolini’s fierce, raw drama of the poem’s final
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Holy Cow review – warmhearted story of smalltown teen turned competition cheesemaker
It doesn’t get more French than a drama about cheese. Holy Cow is the feature debut from director (and part-time farmer) Louise Courvoisier; it’s a
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter review – kitchen tyrant’s story
A chef is yelling at an underling: “I will kill your whole family if you don’t get this right!” The chef is Charlie Trotter, but
Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama
Newcomer-fans of Walton Goggins, sharing gifs of his stunned expression in The White Lotus, might want a look at this interesting but flawed movie: a
Minecraft mania: how millions of rowdy kids saved the box office
Minecraft has jumped from game consoles to movie screens, and theaters across the country are shaking with perhaps the most vocal fan participation this side
The Amateur review – Rami Malek takes action-hero baby steps as CIA analyst out for revenge
Here is a moderate action spy thriller directed by James Hawes, who previously made the Nicholas Winton drama One Life. It is conceived in the
Memo to Timothée Chalamet: instead of total-immersion ping pong, maybe take the year off | Stuart Heritage
Not winning an Oscar can do funny things to people. Look at Leonardo DiCaprio. He tried harder and harder with every successive loss until he
Rebirth: Home Sweet Home review – family holiday turns into hellish apocalypse in Thai-set yarn
Square-jawed cop Jake (Wiliam Moseley, Peter from the early-2000s Narnia movies, all grown up) arrives in Bangkok with his wife Prang (Urassaya Sperbund) and moppet
‘Everything is political’: how film can guide us through difficult times
From its opening frame, Costa-Gavras’s political thriller Z promises to be an unflinching denunciation of authoritarianism. The kinetic camera work matches its forthright narrative of
The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job
This syrupy cartoon account of the life of Jesus (voiced by Oscar Isaac) is narrated, with consummate weirdness, by Charles Dickens (Kenneth Branagh). It’s in