From the tumult of the uprisings to everyday scenes, Clovis Salmon’s jerky camera captured Black British life. As his work hits the big screen, we meet the 94-year-old known as Sam the Wheels‘I used to keep my camera like this,” says Clovis Salmon, put…
Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’
Cinema’s classiest actor on being wooed by Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch, playing Bond’s CIA buddy Felix and why he’s fighting for thinkers in an age of vulgarityWith his soulful gravitas, rich vocal tones and understated cool, Jeffrey Wright is…
‘They wanted to end masculinity’: the artist inspired by anti-sexist men’s groups
Albert Potrony’s exhibition turns Gatehead’s Baltic into a giant creche, inspired by a radical Dutch playground architect and the forgotten feminist men’s movement of the early 70sFor most parents, the ritual of pushing your child on a swing or kicking…
Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play!’
She is back on the big screen as an assassin, is reportedly the highest-paid female actor of colour ever for a TV drama – and is moving into producing. She discusses fairness, film-making and why acting is still her first loveEven via a video call, fro…
Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’
As well as rebooting the horror classic, the 31-year-old is directing a Marvel movie with a $100m-plus budget. She talks about ambition, superstition – and whether she’s risked saying ‘Candyman’ five times“Say it,” implore the posters for the new Candy…
Different class: why British schoolgirl movies are finally growing up
New comedy Our Ladies is the latest UK film to ditch the jolly hockey stick representation of old in favour of complex charactersYou can’t help wondering how British movie schoolgirls would fare among their American counterparts. How would Hermione Gra…
Extinct review – doughnut-shaped critters are an evolutionary dead end
It’s hard to imagine who will enjoy this convoluted animated tale of furry creatures called ‘flummels’Even if you can get over the inherent weirdness of furry little doughnut-shaped creatures with holes in their middles, there’s a lot to puzzle over wi…
Mellow giallo: has the horror genre lost its ability to shock?
Once banished to the ‘video nasty’ lists, the formerly trashy subgenre – spearheaded by Dario Argento – is now seen as high art, dulling its rougher edges Giallo began as the trashiest of genres. Derived from pulp Italian novels (with yellow covers, he…
Can of wormholes: why have blockbuster franchises become so complicated?
With multiple timelines, planets and even Batmen, are the new frontiers of comic-book films works of genius – or confusing cash-ins?Modern Toss on cinematic multiversesFranchise movie-making is a little like quantum physics. It begins with one simple e…