Director Guy Ritchie looks to be channeling that winning Gentlemen energy in new film.
Sundance 2022: Lena Dunham, John Boyega and Emma Thompson lead lineup
A return to in-person screenings for the Utah festival brings a much-anticipated mixture of dramatic and documentary featuresSundance film festival returns to semi-normality next month with a lineup including new films from Lena Dunham, John Boyega and…
Escape from the cage of whiteness – Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude review
National Gallery, LondonBarack Obama’s portraitist took black Londoners to Norway and filmed their frozen adventures. Shown alongside his diverse reworkings of great paintings, the result is an exhibition full of resonanceKehinde Wiley, the official po…
Spider-Man faces his toughest challenge yet: rescuing Marvel Studios, Inc
Marvel is on the ropes. Will Tom Holland’s latest outing be its saviour – or will the film get tangled in its own web of cliches?This year has been an experimental one for Marvel. After no big releases in 2020, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has b…
Neo discovers he still knows kung fu in latest Matrix Resurrections trailer
“We can’t see it, but we’re all trapped inside these strange repeating loops.”
New trailer for The Matrix Resurrections is heavy on the déjà vu
There’s not much in the way of new footage, but trailer has fun playing with parallels.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It review – vampish and sharp as a stiletto
The Puerto Rican-born star of the first West Side Story movie reflects on her life, career and traumas in this warm documentary saluteThis televisual but still touching documentary tribute to actor Rita Moreno, who turns 90 this month, is released in t…
Recasting male heroes as women risks driving boys to crime, claims Tory MP
Nick Fletcher says likes of female Doctor and 007 mean only cultural role models left for boys are criminalsCasting women in TV and film roles previously given to men, such as in Doctor Who or the James Bond franchise, risks leading young males into cr…
‘Idris Elba and Seal are the only Black men in England!’ Boxing Day’s Aml Ameen on repping the UK from LA
It is more than a decade since the London-born star of I May Destroy You moved to the US. Now, he has directed the first Black-led British Christmas filmAml Ameen has one of those big, light-the-room smiles – and he deploys it freely, even to those phy…
Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife sinks under treacly, over-the-top fan service
Talented cast and a few fun callbacks can’t make up for tired retread of a plot.