Cinema

Almodóvar’s loving gaze: Emma Suárez as Julieta

Red hot

25 August 2016 1:00 pm

Everything about Julieta feels totally Almodóvarian. It’s a family saga that smoothly blends tragedy and levity, with exquisite performances from…

Business as usual

20 August 2016 9:00 am

I should probably nail my colours to the mast and state that The Office is possibly my favourite TV sitcom…

Too much of a good thing? Ricky Gervais in ‘David Brent: Life on the Road’

Business as usual

18 August 2016 1:00 pm

I should probably nail my colours to the mast and state that The Office is possibly my favourite TV sitcom…

Oven-ready

12 August 2016 11:00 pm

Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog is billed as a ‘dark comedy’ although it is far more dark than comic. If pressed to…

Keaton Nigel Cooke as Remi in ‘Wiener-Dog’

Oven-ready

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog is billed as a ‘dark comedy’ although it is far more dark than comic. If pressed to…

Corn again

6 August 2016 9:00 am

The Carer is a Hungarian-British co-production about a cantankerous old thesp (Brian Cox) and the young Hungarian woman (Coco König)…

Corn again

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

The Carer is a Hungarian-British co-production about a cantankerous old thesp (Brian Cox) and the young Hungarian woman (Coco König)…

The lying game

30 July 2016 9:00 am

JT LeRoy was a teenage hustler who emerged from a childhood of abuse, drug addiction and homelessness to write about…

The lying game

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

JT LeRoy was a teenage hustler who emerged from a childhood of abuse, drug addiction and homelessness to write about…

Dahl by Spielberg

23 July 2016 9:00 am

Nobody who witnessed it can have forgotten Mark Rylance summoning giants to his aid in Jerusalem. As Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,…

Dahl by Spielberg

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

Nobody who witnessed it can have forgotten Mark Rylance summoning giants to his aid in Jerusalem. As Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,…

Girls v. ghosts

16 July 2016 9:00 am

From the moment this all-female reboot of Ghostbusters was announced, the fan-boy panic set in: where will it end? An…

Who ya gonna call? Melissa McCarthy (Abby), Kate McKinnon (Holtzmann), Kristin Wiig (Erin) and Leslie Jones (Patty) in ‘Ghostbusters’

Girls v. ghosts

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

From the moment this all-female reboot of Ghostbusters was announced, the fan-boy panic set in: where will it end? An…

Erectile dysfunction

9 July 2016 9:00 am

Anthony Weiner is the American politician who made a comeback after a sexting scandal and stood for New York mayor.…

Erectile dysfunction

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Anthony Weiner is the American politician who made a comeback after a sexting scandal and stood for New York mayor.…

Darkness visible

2 July 2016 9:00 am

Perhaps you have sometimes wondered: how would you even begin to make a film about going blind and being blind…

Darkness visible

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

Perhaps you have sometimes wondered: how would you even begin to make a film about going blind and being blind…

Home alone

25 June 2016 3:00 am

The Secret Life of Pets is the latest animation from Illumination Entertainment, which also brought us Minions and Despicable Me,…

Home alone

23 June 2016 2:00 am

The Secret Life of Pets is the latest animation from Illumination Entertainment, which also brought us Minions and Despicable Me,…

Heart of the matter: Salma Hayek as the queen

Highly illogical

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Matteo Garrone’s first English-language film is a baroque fantasy based on Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), the 17th-century collection of fairy…

Antonio Bolívar, left, as the older Karamakate in ‘Embrace of the Serpent’

The lost world

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Every now and then, with great infrequency (alas), a film comes along that is like no other and completely knocks…

A side order of extra Marmite comes in the considerable silhouette of Russell Crowe as Jackson Healy

Russell Crowe knows how to wear a pair of inverted commas: The Nice Guys reviewed

4 June 2016 9:00 am

Regular filmgoers must be losing count of the Rabelaisian revelries they’ve been invited to of late. You may recognise the…

A side order of extra Marmite comes in the considerable silhouette of Russell Crowe as Jackson Healy

Punchlines and punches

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Regular filmgoers must be losing count of the Rabelaisian revelries they’ve been invited to of late. You may recognise the…

Why Deborah Ross wants to punch G.K. Chesterton in the head

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Love & Friendship is based on the little-known Jane Austen epistolary novella, Lady Susan, which was not published until after…

Jane Austen on speed

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Love & Friendship is based on the little-known Jane Austen epistolary novella, Lady Susan, which was not published until after…