Tilda Swinton

Great knits – shame about the film: Almodovar’s The Room Next Door reviewed

26 October 2024 9:00 am

The Room Next Door is Pedro Almodovar’s first film in the English language and if it is his last we…

Sounds ghastly but it's somehow riveting: The Souvenir – Part II reviewed

5 February 2022 9:00 am

The Souvenir: Part II is Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to The Souvenir (2019) but it’s not your regular sequel. It’s not…

'Oculus Quest is really the way': film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul interviewed

15 January 2022 9:00 am

Igor Toronyi-Lalic talks to the film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about sleep, Tilda Swinton and VR

You'll tire of the wackiness and the whimsy: The French Dispatch reviewed

23 October 2021 9:00 am

The American filmmaker Wes Anderson has an apartment in Paris and has always yearned to make a French movie but…

Fun and likeable and forgettable: The Personal History of David Copperfield reviewed

24 January 2020 10:00 pm

Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield is a romp told at a lick, and while it’s fun and……

Sensational: Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie and Tom Burke as Anthony

Sensational: The Souvenir reviewed

31 August 2019 9:00 am

Joanna Hogg’s films are the antithesis of popcorn entertainment so if it’s not the antithesis of popcorn entertainment that you…

The thighs have it: George Clooney (Baird Whitlock) at his goofiest and most short-skirted

Are the Coen Brothers taking us for a ride? Hail, Caesar! reviewed

5 March 2016 9:00 am

The latest film from the Coen brothers is a comedy set during the ‘golden age’ of Hollywood and in some…

Scarlett Johansson as a mermaid? Bung her in

What is a serious film festival doing opening with Hail, Caesar!

20 February 2016 9:00 am

What is a serious film festival doing opening with Ethan and Joel Coens’ turkey Hail, Caesar!? James Woodall reports from Berlin

Trainwreck wastes Amy Schumer’s talents

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Trainwreck is a romcom as written and directed by Amy Schumer, the American comedy prodigy whose Comedy Central sketch show…

Insanely rich but unrecognisable: Tilda Swinton as Madame D

A film to enjoy with your eyes

8 March 2014 9:00 am

The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest Wes Anderson film and it is beautiful to look at, scrumptious, luscious, such…

You may be the Only One Left Awake at Only Lovers Left Alive

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Jim Jarmusch is the noted American ‘cult director’, and if you were to judge him solely on the basis of…