The new film from Ana Lily Amirpour will keep the fans happy with the tale of mind-controlling waitress on the loose the French QuarterIranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour serves up heaped spoonfuls of B-movie thrills in Mona Lisa and the Blood …
Last Night in Soho review – a gaudy romp that’s stupidly enjoyable
Edgar Wright’s time-travel film plays like a 60s pop song building towards a big climaxThe nostalgia gauge is code-red on Last Night in Soho, a gaudy time-travel romp that whisks its modern-day heroine to a bygone London that probably never existed out…
Il Buco review – unhurried meditation on the beauties of geological time
Ten years after village doc Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino returns with an observational piece centring on a deep-cave system in CalabriaIn 2011 Italian artist Michelangelo Frammartino scored a small indie hit with a film called Le Quattro …
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman lights up Elena Ferrante psychodrama
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s accomplished directing debut makes humid, sensual cinema of Ferrante’s novelOlivia Colman gives a powerhouse turn in The Lost Daughter, prickly and combustible as Leda Caruso, a middle-aged languages professor on a working holiday i…
Spencer review – Princess Diana’s disastrous marriage makes a magnificent farce
Kristen Stewart’s entirely compelling Di has no escape from the dress-up game of monarchy in Pablo Larraín’s unreverential movieSandringham, Christmas 1991. Bare trees, frosted fields, dead pheasants on the drive. Inside the grand house the dining tabl…
The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino exposes his childhood trauma
Going back to Naples and the tragedy that changed his life, The Great Beauty director evokes his adolescence with bawdy vigourAt 16, Paolo Sorrentino returned home to find that both his parents were dead, killed by a carbon monoxide leak. On the night …
Spencer: first trailer shows Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana
The film, set to premiere at the Venice film festival, takes a look at a weekend in the life of Diana from Jackie director Pablo LarraínThe first trailer for Spencer, the much-anticipated Diana, Princess of Wales drama, has been unveiled just days befo…
James Cochran’s recipe for Cornish-Caribbean jerk goat patties with plantain ketchup
It may be postponed this year, but you can still celebrate Notting Hill Carnival weekend at your own street party with a spicy pasty-patty mash-upA spicy mash-up to celebrate Notting Hill Carnival weekend: the famous Cornish pasty with a Caribbean patt…
Clowntime review – it’s a crime not to be funny in John Feffer’s dystopia
Online@theSpaceUKGuileless hero Christopher Blank is ‘born without a single funny bone in his body’ in a one-man play that paints a near future US in broad brushstrokesComedians becoming politicians and pundits. Politicians playing the lovable buffoon….
From Ghetts to Genesis, Nick Cave to Arlo Parks: autumn 2021’s essential music
From Fontaines DC to the Valkyrie, a techno Halloween to Little Simz, this is the unmissable music of the next few months Continue reading…