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Category: Films
Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment
If the dismal reviews meted out to the new film Bleeding Love prove anything at all, it’s that parents need to think very carefully before
The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’
Thirty years ago, a humble silver bus was transformed into a cinematic icon when the low-budget Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the
Coppola, Lanthimos, Sorrentino: Cannes’ silverback gorillas shall slug it out at this year’s festival
The new Cannes selection has been unveiled in one of the most tense and fraught geopolitical situations for years, giving even more of a frisson
Keith Allen: ‘Your implication is my life’s a failure and I’d be happier had I lost my manhood’
You’ve performed naked on stage with Max Bygraves, bared all in Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave and posed nude for the BBC’s Celebrity Painting Challenge. Do
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead review – a worthwhile comedy remake
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is the ultimate ode to the latchkey generation. To watch the 1991 film now is to be reminded of
Ratcatcher review – Lynne Ramsay’s haunting debut is a hallucinatory wonder
Twenty-five years ago, we saw one of the most impressive debut features in modern British movie history. Ratcatcher, by the 29-year-old Glasgow film-maker Lynne Ramsay,
The Greatest Hits review – cutesy music romance plays a forgettable tune
In the often insufferably cutesy romance The Greatest Hits, our heroine travels back in time whenever a song from her past is played, nostalgia acting
Civil War review – Alex Garland’s delirious dive into divided US society
Writer-director Alex Garland stages a spectacular if evasively apolitical “civil war” in this futurist-dystopian action thriller, involving hundreds of extras lying on the road next
The Promised Land review – Andrzej Wajda’s anti-capitalist comic opera is still razor sharp
Andrzej Wajda’s queasily compelling film from 1975, adapted by him from a novel by Wladysław Reymont, is an expressionist comic opera of toxic capitalism and