Cinema
No laughing matter
We love Amy Schumer. Fact. And we love Goldie Hawn. Fact. But can we love Snatched? Not so much, if…
Farming today
There are bigger entities landing at your local multiplex this week. An ancient indestructible franchise is re-re-(re-)booted in Alien: Covenant.…
Thatcher’s Britain with her knickers down
Two 16-year-old schoolgirls from a sink estate in Bradford find fun and happiness by shacking up with a middle-aged married…
Girl power
Lady Macbeth, which has nothing to do with boring old Shakespeare beyond indicating a certain archetype (huge sighs of relief…
All dressed up, nowhere to go
Rules Don’t Apply is Warren Beatty’s first film appearance in 15 years and his first as writer, director, producer and…
Seeking closure
The Sense of an Ending is an adaptation of Julian Barnes’s 2011 Man Booker prize-winning novel starring Jim Broadbent (we…
Poetry in motion
Films can be poetry — or like poetry; or poetic, at least — but can poetry ever be film? That…
Major to minor
Ghost in the Shell is the Hollywood live-action remake of the 1995 Japanese anime of the same name and it’s…
Hide and seek
Two films for you this week, one of which is surprisingly good and one of which does not surprise in…
Got the message?
To cut to the chase, my ten-year-old daughter really liked Beauty and the Beast. And given you’re probably going to…
Victim mentality
Elle has been described as ‘a rape revenge comedy’, which seems unlikely, and also as ‘post-feminist’, which is likely as,…
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…
