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.
Category: Films
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;
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a gentle gem about late-life love and loneliness
Here is a marvellously tender story of loneliness and love which starts with a bigger bang than most thrillers. Etero, played by Eka Chavleishvili, is
The Animal Kingdom review – Romain Duris leads post-Covid fantasy of virus-triggered mutants
Thomas Cailley’s sci-fi fantasy has too much sensitivity and good taste to be the proper horror-thriller or creature feature that it almost resembles. It’s a
‘Surrounded by the beauty of a thousand candles’: why Twilight is going live, loud and on tour
The first Twilight film was released 16 years ago and, for many of us, the franchise has long since lost any sense of currency. Without
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano review – reclaiming normality in post-explosion Beirut
‘How much bad news can you get in one day?” That’s the production manager of a Lebanese movie called Costa Brava, which is due to
Lassie: A New Adventure review – wholesome quaint family fun with no surprises
In some ways, the Lassie films are like the canine answer to the James Bond series. Both have literary antecedents, both have been big screen
What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks
I can still remember sitting down to Theo Angelopoulos’s legendary epic film The Travelling Players and noting that it was 222 minutes long and thinking
Turtles All the Way Down review – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film
For better and for worse, John Green’s young adult worlds tend toward the dramatic and expansive – big swings, big emotions, big mysteries and dreams.