Greece’s leading contemporary director has had a request to shoot footage for his new film at the Acropolis in Athens denied by his country’s culture
Category: Films
A Minecraft Movie breaks records to become highest opening video game movie of all time
A Minecraft Movie has broken box office records to record the highest ever first weekend total for a video game adaptation. According to the Hollywood
Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film
At a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched
Film-maker Paul Schrader accused of sexually assaulting personal assistant
Paul Schrader, the writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant,
Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age-gap movies
At this admittedly early stage of 2025, with all the noisy blockbusters of summer still ahead of us, the UK’s box-office report tells a nostalgic
‘An intellectual stuck in a Batman suit’: readers remember the genius of Val Kilmer
‘Unexpected kindness I have never forgotten’ I worked as a dialogue coach on Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2003. Val was playing Alexander’s father, Philip II
The film fans who remade Jurassic Park: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’
This morning’s location: a field outside Castlemaine, Victoria. The air is thick with flies, attracted to the cow dung but ignoring the nearby dinosaur poo,
Raspberry scented weirdness: will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?
Pixar’s film-makers are famously asked to pitch three unique ideas when proposing new projects. In terms of Elio, unique is very much the operative word.
Peter Jewell obituary
The life of Peter Jewell, who has died aged 90, was indelibly entwined with that of the Scottish film director Bill Douglas. They were friends
Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One
People are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build.