Martin Scorsese has denied he is planning to retire, telling a press conference in Italy that he has “more films to make” after reports surfaced
Category: Films
Flopping at the box office, hated by the critics – could Joker: Folie à Deux possibly be any worse?
Name: Joker: Folie à Deux. Age: Released last week. A moving picture, right? Yes, the sequel to 2019’s Joker, Todd Phillips’s critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning take
Almodóvar in English, McQueen at war and Jolie on song: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the London film festival
A Traveler’s Needs It’s one of the most intriguing director-star pairings in world cinema: Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo and French icon Isabelle Huppert. This is
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person review – ethical kills for teen bloodsucker
Imagine Beetlejuice-era Winona Ryder playing Amelie (dressed in goth black naturally), and you’ve got a pretty good impression of the heroine in this cool offbeat
Haunted Ulster Live review – mock Halloween broadcast evokes the spectre of Ghostwatch
On Halloween in 1992, the BBC spooked the nation with the mockumentary Ghostwatch, an apparently live broadcast from Britain’s most haunted house. Despite its being
A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary
Chinese film-maker Wenqian Zhang makes her feature debut with this amazingly intimate, emotionally painful and personal film about her dysfunctional family; completed in 2022, it
Singin’ in the nuclear rain: new films push the musical genre in a darker direction
A murderous psychopath mournfully sings his heart out in jail. A family living in a below-ground bunker chorus together about the end of the world.
The Three Michaels review – trio of Michael Jackson lookalikes reach for the stars
British film-maker Tom Goudsmit has chosen a quintessentially American subject for his first feature-length documentary: people seeking to better their lots by impersonating, or just
Sally Field recalls her ‘hideous’ illegal abortion at 17 as she urges voters to back Kamala Harris
Sally Field has spoken about the “hideous” and “traumatic” illegal abortion she underwent as a 17-year-old in 1964, as she called on voters to get
Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’
Suffering abounds in Adam Elliot’s dark and deadpan films. The Melbourne animator’s claymation characters overdose and lose testicles or imbibe on an array of poisons;