Cinema
Victim mentality
Elle has been described as ‘a rape revenge comedy’, which seems unlikely, and also as ‘post-feminist’, which is likely as,…
Parting shots
Gurinder Chadha’s modern comedies have fun with cultural divides. Girls kick footballs in Bend It Like Beckham. A gaggle of…
Parting shots
Gurinder Chadha’s modern comedies have fun with cultural divides. Girls kick footballs in Bend It Like Beckham. A gaggle of…
Pump up the volume
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is one of those angst-ridden dramas focusing on what is commonly…
Pump up the volume
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is one of those angst-ridden dramas focusing on what is commonly…
Three ages of man
Moonlight is, in fact, a traditional story about identity, and finding out who you are, but it has rarely been…
Three ages of man
Moonlight is, in fact, a traditional story about identity, and finding out who you are, but it has rarely been…
Mother superior
Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…
Mother superior
Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…
Metal fatigue
‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…
Metal fatigue
‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…
Sloppy seconds
Danny Boyle introduced T2 Trainspotting at the screening I attended and said that, throughout filming, he’d seen the cast looking…
Sloppy seconds
Danny Boyle introduced T2 Trainspotting at the screening I attended and said that, throughout filming, he’d seen the cast looking…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
All bark and no bite
A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…
All bark and no bite
A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…
Question time
If you were to see one film about American whistle-blower Edward Snowden — there is no law saying you have…
Question time
If you were to see one film about American whistle-blower Edward Snowden — there is no law saying you have…
No peace, no pussy
The bizarro concept of a ‘President-elect Trump’ came to pass despite the wishes, clearly stated on the stump, of the…
No peace, no pussy
The bizarro concept of a ‘President-elect Trump’ came to pass despite the wishes, clearly stated on the stump, of the…
