Film Review

Damien Chazelle makes projects about projects, the gruelling work required to be an artist, or an astronaut – and always adds the small, unspoken rider: ‘Was it worth it?’. It’s…

Oscar predictions are a mug’s game – but it’s mid-October, so of course they’re everywhere. At the moment, with a few big titles still to come, the 20 ‘Oscarologists’ at…

The man who killed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote may have been Jean Rochefort, the French actor who dropped out of the project in 2000 with a herniated disc…

We open with a caption: “This story, also, is mostly true” – a reference to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which opened with the caption “Most of what…

First comes the blue-sky wallpaper of a PC running Windows XP, with a glimpse of Norton antivirus (Norton! whatever happened to Norton?), then eventually YouTube and Facebook and iPhones and…

Someone’s been reading Stephen Hawking, or at least the opening page of A Brief History of Time – the one with the anecdote about the old lady who believed the…

Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) has some good advice for Lewis (12-year-old Owen Vaccaro), the young hero of The House With a Clock in its Walls: “It’s not what you say,…

What’s Rowan Atkinson’s point? I don’t mean ‘What’s the point of Rowan Atkinson?’, which would be rude and, let’s face it, unfair – whatever you might think of Mr Bean,…

By a strange coincidence, two of the three actors who played poor, bullied Chiron in Moonlight – last year’s surprise Best Picture Oscar winner – appear in supporting roles in…

A Predator, as movie fans have known since 1987, is an alien creature that kills people for sport – though that’s actually not a very accurate description of a predator…