Cinema

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…

Hound of love: Lolabelle gets old and Lolabelle goes blind and keyboards are laid out on the floor so that she can bash them with her paws, and enjoy the sounds

Weird, wise, thought-provoking and hypnotic: Heart of a Dog reviewed

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Heart of a Dog is a film by Laurie Anderson and it’s a meditative, free-associating rumination on life, loss, love…

Hound of love: Lolabelle gets old and Lolabelle goes blind and keyboards are laid out on the floor so that she can bash them with her paws, and enjoy the sounds

Memories, dreams, reflections

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Heart of a Dog is a film by Laurie Anderson and it’s a meditative, free-associating rumination on life, loss, love…

Blake Jenner as Jake and Zoey Deutch as Beverly in ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’

I’m sure women spoke in 1980: Everybody Wants Some!! reviewed

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Everybody Wants Some!! is a comedy written and directed by Richard Linklater, which is the good news, but it’s set…

Blake Jenner as Jake and Zoey Deutch as Beverly in ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’

The male gaze

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

Everybody Wants Some!! is a comedy written and directed by Richard Linklater, which is the good news, but it’s set…

Not a trip to the cinema you’ll bitterly resent – or hugely enjoy: Florence Foster Jenkins reviewed

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Before we turn our attention to Florence Foster Jenkins — but if you can’t wait, it’s so-so — I feel…

Striking the wrong note

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Before we turn our attention to Florence Foster Jenkins — but if you can’t wait, it’s so-so — I feel…

I swear this is the last Marvel film I see: Captain America reviewed

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Captain America: Civil War is the 897th instalment — or something like it — in the Marvel comic franchise. This…

Less than Marvellous

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Captain America: Civil War is the 897th instalment — or something like it — in the Marvel comic franchise. This…

Caption – Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun

Jane Got a Gun is about as feminist as my cat Daphne, who barely moves

23 April 2016 9:00 am

Jane Got a Gun is being sold as a rousing feminist Western although the truth is that it’s about as…

Caption – Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun

There may be trouble ahead

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

Jane Got a Gun is being sold as a rousing feminist Western although the truth is that it’s about as…

You won’t care it’s been done before, because it’s never been done like this: Jungle Book reviewed

16 April 2016 9:00 am

This Jungle Book is Disney’s remake of its animated classic of 1967, as beloved by all generations thereafter. Warner Bros…

Fresh and wild

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

This Jungle Book is Disney’s remake of its animated classic of 1967, as beloved by all generations thereafter. Warner Bros…

The outsiders: Kalieaswari Srinivasan (Yalini), Claudine Vinasithamby (Illayaal), Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan)

Quiet but potent film about the migrant experience: Dheepan reviewed

9 April 2016 9:00 am

The French master film-maker Jacques Audiard has never been anywhere near Hollywood plot school. His films contain gathering menace —…

The outsiders: Kalieaswari Srinivasan (Yalini), Claudine Vinasithamby (Illayaal), Jesuthasan Antonythasan (Dheepan)

Bitter sweet

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

The French master film-maker Jacques Audiard has never been anywhere near Hollywood plot school. His films contain gathering menace —…