The vintage year of 1999 has been back in the critical conversation recently for its quarter-centenary; it was the year of The Sixth Sense, The
Category: Films
The Dead Don’t Hurt review | Peter Bradshaw’s film of the week
This sinewy, sombre, handsomely crafted and beautifully shot western is Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, an impressively authored movie in which Mortensen is
The Matrix review – barnstorming sci-fi still calling our reality into question
To paraphrase Apu in The Simpsons, this was the year filmgoers were partying like it was on sale for $19.99; it offered the vintage of
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review – mutant-bear slasher is back in the woods
A swiftly turned-around sequel to last year’s notoriously lame Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, this splatterfest horror feature is better than its predecessor much in the
Under Paris: Netflix has delivered one of the best shark movies ever made
Almost exactly a decade ago, I unwittingly played into an extremely corny publicity gimmick by wearing a heart-rate monitor during a movie screening. I did
Food, Inc 2 review – second helping of broadsides against the food-industry crisis
Robert Kenner’s 2008 documentary Food, Inc was an angry wake-up call to the evils of industrialised food production. Now Kenner is back for another bite,
‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding
Take a stroll through the classic English countryside of West Sussex, and you’ll notice things becoming strange just beyond the village of Dial Post. Here,
Janis Paige obituary
Janis Paige, who has died aged 101, shone in films and numerous television shows, but her greatest triumph came in the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross Tony
Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley join calls for UK creative industries anti-harassment body
A collection of stellar British film industry names, including Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Naomie Harris, have joined calls to ensure that funds will be
Four Little Adults review – polyamory drama shows a Finnish couple working through their issues
A rosy glow of self-satisfied emotional intelligence emanates from this film about polyamory from Finland. Alma Pöysti (from Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves) plays Juulia, a progressive