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…
Adam Driver’s 10 best film performances – ranked!
Ahead of the release of Annette, we rank the actor’s greatest roles, from the insufferable hipster of While We’re Young to his severe missionary in SilenceThe movie might be flawed, but Driver’s performance (playing opposite the similarly excellent Alb…
The Last Bus review – a cliche-packed vehicle for Timothy Spall
A widower takes a nostalgic journey from John o’Groats to Land’s End using his free bus pass in a well-acted but overly sentimental filmTry as I might, I couldn’t make friends with this weirdly unreal and sentimental Britmovie in the last-journey-with-…
Spencer: first poster released for Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana film
Ahead of Venice premiere of Pablo Larraín’s biopic, teaser poster appears to show Diana weeping into enormous dressA first poster has been released for Spencer, the forthcoming film about three days in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, starring Kri…
Candyman review – BLM horror reboot is superb confection of satire and scorn
Nia DaCosta’s quasi reboot develops the horror myth as an expression of rage against racism in the era of Black Lives MatterCandyman, in its first incarnation, stepped daintily out of the mirror in 1992, in writer-director Bernard Rose’s US-set version…
Boiling Point review – Stephen Graham bubbles in one-shot restaurant drama
This year’s Karlovy Vary saw the premiere of a dizzying single-take drama featuring a potent lead performance from Graham as a chef enduring a nightmarish eveningPhilip Barantini serves up a single-take headlong nightmare in this drama set in a restaur…
Mosquito State review – a torrid, original tone poem to late capitalism
Swarms of bloodsucking insects mirror the volatility of the markets in this thrilling drama of financial crisisThis highly original, visually torrid take on Wall Street and last decade’s global financial crisis celebrates the true masters of the univer…
Hobbled by hype: why are lauded British directors only making one movie?
First films by promising new British talent are often overpraised, when what they really need is our lasting supportPrano Bailey-Bond’s debut feature, Censor, came out in the UK last Friday on the back of a huge publicity push and wave of critical accl…
Bloodthirsty review – a beast-within horror film puts gore front and centre
Released soon after Amelia Moses’ intriguing feature debut Bleed With Me, this is a far more camp and cliched workFollowing quickly on the heels of the intriguing Bleed With Me, released in the UK just a couple of weeks ago, this beast-within horror fi…
The Last Job review – Richard Dreyfuss is a retiree on a rampage in muddled melodrama
Dreyfuss is a former mobster resorting to violence in a film whose delightful score can’t save it from being a hot messThe best thing about this crime melodrama is the score, credited to composers Shane Endsley, Ben Wendel and Nate Wood (all part of a …