Can it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I – The Phantom Menace, once considered the emblem of
Category: Films
Prom Dates review – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster
There are good reasons why many American teens stress about prom: it’s expensive, heightened, fraught with status and identity; the photos will haunt you forever;
‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit
‘I’ve always liked the company of older people,” says Julian Clary, still smoothly beautiful at 64. “I like the fact they’ve lived a life they
Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts
Standup veteran Jerry Seinfeld makes his directing debut with this decent family comedy that puts a surreal twist on the history of Pop-Tarts, one of
The Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance
You might need to get your indulgent smile firmly in place for this colossal action comedy – not unlike the adorable smirks on the faces
Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart lifts brilliant bodybuilding noir
British film-maker Rose Glass lets rip with some pure roid-rage cinema in this uproarious, horribly violent and lethally smart noir thriller sited in the Venn
Much Ado About Dying review – brave, loving record of an actor uncle’s last days
Films about film-makers and their kith and kin sometimes get dismissed as self-serving, self-indulgent or even – everyone’s favourite smear word these days – narcissistic.
Red Herring review – document of family soul-searching after terminal diagnosis
When he was 24, film-maker Kit Vincent was diagnosed with a brain tumour; doctors said that he could expect to live four to eight years.
The Idea of You review – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance
There are lithe, low-level pleasures to be had in the glossy pop romance The Idea of You, Amazon’s latest attempt to turn a fanfic fave
Witch review – occultist gothic horror takes a swerve into the psychedelic
After kicking off with an atmospheric but orthodox piece of hoary British witchfinder gothic, Witch takes a genuinely unexpected and ambitious swerve after 45 minutes;