Keanu Reeves is back as cyberpunk icon Neo but fans of the original will find this cynical reboot a bitter pill to swallowEighteen years after what we thought was the third and final Matrix film, The Matrix Revolutions, Lana Wachowski has directed a fo…
Why on earth is Angelina Jolie in Marvel’s Eternals?
No one is more suited to playing a godlike otherworldly creature. Yet no one, surely, needs this kind of movie less. Unless…There is something going on with Eternals, Oscar winner Chloé Zhao’s debut dip into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Perhaps it’s …
Elijah Wood: ‘I still have a pair of Hobbit feet in my house’
The 40-year-old actor on living with Frodo, coping with fans and why he loves fatherhoodI grew up in a blue-collar, working-class family in Cedar Rapids in Iowa. My dad worked at the box factory, and my mum worked at the Quaker Oats factory. Eventually…
Dune review – David Lynch’s intergalactic epic shoots for the moon
There are moments of dreamlike brilliance in this extravagant fable of imperialism – provided you can stay awake to see themWith Denis Villeneuve’s new adaptation of Dune almost upon us, here is a chance to revisit David Lynch’s ill-starred attempt fro…
The Green Knight review – Dev Patel rides high on sublimely beautiful quest
Director David Lowery conjures up visual wonders and metaphysical mysteries from the anonymously authored 14th-century chivalric poemChrist’s sacrifice and the erotic death-wish of earthly glory: these are the components of this freaky folk horror from…
The 20 best Will Smith films – ranked!
Soon to be seen as the father of Venus and Serena Williams in the Oscar-tipped King Richard, Smith has lent his everyman charm to comedies, sci-fi and even a buddy movie pairing a cop with an orcWill Smith has made many more than 20 films, but the econ…
‘I wouldn’t take my kids to this’: Star Wars’ Phil Tippett on his hellish animation Mad God
The leading visual effects designer, whose credits include Star Wars and Jurassic Park, has spent three decades directing his gruesome animated fableYou definitely know Phil Tippett’s work even if you don’t know his name. The 3D chess game in Star Wars…
Settlers review – audacious sci-fi western of frontier pioneers on Mars
Wyatt Rockefeller’s Martian-set drama about a family living a lie is a quietly impressive piece of workIndependent film-makers working on their debuts usually have a tough time getting the money together, mastering the art of networking and finding inf…