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The Guardian FilmUKOne in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformed There’s a startling moment in this BBC refugee documentary when Syrian mother Nisreen…
The Guardian FilmUK‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster The Jojo Rabbit director blamed the dismal numbers for his film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel on ‘obsolete’ reviewers’ notices, adding that he works ‘for the people’ – whose Rotten Tomatoes ratings are…
The Guardian FilmUK‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies After Guardian writers picked their choices for Halloween , readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to The Truman Show The murder of the taxi…
The Guardian FilmUKBlockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo Writer-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road This has nothing to do with Ian Dury; rather, it is a brisk, effective…
The Guardian FilmUK‘Funny and self-aware’: why (500) Days of Summer is my feelgood movie The latest in our ongoing series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films carries special romantic meaning It is September 2009. Barack Obama is settling into the White House.
The Guardian FilmUKDead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror Every bog-standard cliche is employed – and fails – in this moribund Aussie thiller, which entirely lacks both bite and bark When talk here turns to what would happen if the film’s werewolf hero were…
The Guardian FilmUK‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with…
The Guardian FilmUKI Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands Ana Ts’uyeb’s poetic film celebrates the resilience of Indigenous women while exploring the possibility of a different future Shot in her home village of Naranjatic Alto in the Mexican highlands, Ana…
The Guardian FilmUKDirector Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range Mann taken to hospital with superficial injury after weapon accidentally discharged while holstered The Hollywood director Michael Mann has been taken to the hospital following an apparently…
The Guardian FilmUKBasketweavers get in a twist over Alexander Skarsgård’s Wicker Husband Why is he not made of willow? Why is he plaited and not woven? World’s basket makers have plenty of questions Hollywood heart-throbs are known for their good looks and charisma.
The Guardian FilmUK‘I saw the script and went: oooh!’ Olivia Colman and Alexander Skårsgard on their steamy folk-horror movie Wicker She plays a depressed fisherwoman. He plays a man made of wicker who is solely dedicated to her pleasure.
The Guardian FilmUKThe Mosquito Bowl review – Netflix mixes football, war and cliches in slick by-the-numbers saga Peter Berg’s handsomely made second world war drama about a football game before the battle of Okinawa is stirring but filled with eye-rolling dialogue Forgive me, but it is difficult not to be a…
The Guardian FilmUKElke Sommer, prolific German star of A Shot in the Dark and And Then There Were None, dies aged 85 The Berlin-born performer had a gift for languages that took her to Hollywood, landing roles alongside Peter Sellers, Dick Van Dyke and Paul Newman Elke Sommer, the prolific German star of the Pink…
The Guardian FilmUKI Love Boosters review – supercool outlaw women go shoplifting in Boots Riley’s frantic and funny caper Demi Moore’s haute-couture maven attracts the attention of a gang of contemporary Robin Hood type clothes robbers in Riley’s fashion biz satire Here is an entertaining, if very exhausting…
The Guardian FilmUKWicker review – Olivia Colman finds the perfect lover in intriguing folk-horror romance Colman stars as a depressed and bullied fisherwoman in medieval England. Fortunately, Peter Dinklage’s basketmaker delivers the answer to her dreams – an Alexander Skarsgård made of wicker The spirit…
The Guardian FilmUKHow did a fishmonger who starred in an adult movie make Rocky? The film about Sylvester Stallone’s amazing triumph Belittled for his speech and looks, and so short of cash he had to sell his dog, Stallone managed to write and star in one of the greatest boxing movies ever.
The Guardian FilmUKPeter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The Changeling, dies aged 88 The film-maker enjoyed a long and varied film and TV career, from horror movies and true-crime thrillers to Cannibal and Breaking Bad Peter Medak, the British-Hungarian director of The Changeling…
The Guardian FilmUKThe Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave put in the performances of their lives in this film originally banned for obscenity that highlights the violence of power ‘I could never be Satan’s boy.
The Guardian FilmUK‘How on earth is this man not sweating?’ Director Brett Morgen’s painstaking 10-year remaster Bowie’s ‘greatest filmed performance’ Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgan has turned lost footage of two 1978 concerts into an arena spectacular.
The Guardian FilmUKIn the Shadows review – true tale of Ramla Ali’s remarkable rise through the boxing ranks is a knockout Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production The true-life success story of…
The Guardian FilmUKPrimetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it wants to say about media or morality Lance Oppenheim is the acclaimed documentary-maker who has made…
The Guardian FilmUKGentle Monster review – disquieting drama about two women facing the truth about the men they love Léa Seydoux is a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to quiz her husband; Jella Haase is a detective dealing with her ailing father’s misdeeds Marie Kreutzer is the Austrian…
The Guardian FilmUKNightborn review – Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby Dark forces give new parents more than they bargained with in this unsubtle Finnish horror from Hanna Bergholm Finnish director Hanna Bergholm made a witty and unnerving baby-body-horror movie with…
The Guardian FilmUKAnimol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film The lawless brutality of a young offender…
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