A pandemic-made project, starring the Oscar winner as a mother racing to save her son, starts out with tension but ends up in sillinessAs more pandemic-produced movies continue trickling out, we’re able to see that for the majority, they can be easily …
Venice film festival 2021 roundup – a formidably good year on the Lido
Big name directors at their best feature alongside daring visionaries from the farther realms of art cinema – but to whom will Bong Joon-ho’s jury award the Golden Lion?Critics are allegedly very hard to please. There’s a joke told in the 19th-century …
Arts shows star in new Radio 4 line-up after storm at axing of film programme
Mark Kermode will co-host show exploring ‘unexpected links and discoveries’ in screen historyA film show and a new weekly music programme on Radio 4 will be part of a huge shake-up of arts programming at the BBC due to be unveiled on Monday.Screenshot …
Not just lighthouse, pagan or witch horror
A24 have involvement in several films this autumn/fall. As well as (delayed) The Green Knight [previous 1] [previous 2] (The Lantern review) and Lamb [previous] (Variety review), there is C’mon C’mon (Vanity Fair review), starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby…
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Introducing Marley Morrison: ‘I’ve told you more than anyone in my life for five years’
Drink, depression, homelessness and football injuries: the road to the director’s first feature, Sweetheart, has been difficult. She even dumped one project when her feelings about her gender identity changedMarley Morrison has written and directed a k…
The Lost Leonardo: has a new film solved the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting?
Is the $450m Salvator Mundi a fake? This film – featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers and a secretive superyacht – may finally settle the great da Vinci controversyIt is almost exactly 10 years since Salvator Mundi was unveiled,…
The 30 best mobster movies – ranked!
Ahead of the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark hitting cinemas, here are 30 organised crime flicks you must see before you sleep with the fishesOur criteria here is films featuring actual mobsters and the organised crime milieu – as opposed to…
Herself review – Irish abuse drama turns into home-build heartwarmer
Clare Dunne stars in and writes this self-empowering story of a battered Dublin cleaner who builds her own house, directed by The Iron Lady’s Phyllida LloydClare Dunne is the young Irish stage and screen performer who takes a commanding role in this he…
Kristen Stewart felt Princess Diana gave her ‘sign off’ for Spencer role
Actor who plays the Princess of Wales in critically lauded drama says there were moments during the shoot when it felt as if Diana was ‘trying to break through’Kristen Stewart has spoken about getting a “sign-off” from Diana, Princess of Wales for her …