When Jason Patel was young – a self-described “sassy teen” growing up in Manchester – he was told by a family friend to drop his
Category: Films
David Duchovny: ‘I’m not just throwing on a kilt willy-nilly’
Is it true that you were completely broke and willing to give up acting when the offer for The X-Files turned up? feirefitzNo. I was
The Mummy review – Brendan Fraser’s action-adventure is as lovably goofy as ever
Twenty-five years ago, action-adventure maestro Stephen Sommers had a big summer hit on his hands; as writer and director he had revived the renowned Universal
Lily Gladstone likens Golden Globes to Squid Game: ‘You’re in shapewear, you need to pee’
Lily Gladstone has compared awards ceremonies to Squid Game, the brutal Netflix drama about a group of desperate contestants who compete in a series of
The Conversation review – Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic
God’s surveillance is everywhere: this is the thought that weighs heavily on bugging expert and practising Catholic Harry Caul in Francis Ford Coppola’s eerie 1974
French prosecutors ask for rape charges against film director Benoît Jacquot
French prosecutors have requested film director Benoît Jacquot be charged with raping actors Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy, the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP
The Imaginary review – charming anime about made-up best friends from former Ghibli protege
Studio Ponoc – the Japanese animation studio founded by Studio Ghibli alumni, which gave us Mary and the Witch’s Flower – returns with a playful
Unicorns review – drama of queer south Asian club culture with added superstar drag queens
Welsh-Egyptian film-maker Sally El Hosaini made a supremely confident debut in 2012 with My Brother the Devil, about a young gay Muslim drug dealer in
Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs
An explosion of pass-agg hipster quirkiness is what’s offered here, an everything-everywhere-all-at-onceuniverse of cutesy vulnerability and pseudo-childlike ersatz charm. Salvadorian-American comic and SNL alumnus Julio
What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir
This intense psychological drama has a squid in the sky problem. Specifically it’s that, by its halfway point, Ran Huang’s rarefied Scandinavian crime feature has