Timothée Chalamet to play Willy Wonka in origins movie | Timothée Chalamet
[ad_1] Timothée Chalamet is set to take on the role of Willy Wonka in a new origins movie. According to Deadline, the Oscar-nominated star of Call Me by Your Name will follow in the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp in an all-singing and all-dancing performance in a prequel inspired by Roald Dahl’s book […]
Eternals: first trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Marvel movie released | Chloé Zhao
[ad_1] The first trailer for Eternals, a new Marvel movie directed by Oscar-winning film-maker Chloé Zhao, has been released. Zhao shot the film back-to-back with Nomadland, her elegiac drama about van-dwellers in America, using the same camera and operating rig. Such continuity has led many superhero-sceptic cinephiles to entertain unusually high hopes for an MCU […]
Thelma & Louise at 30: a groundbreaking road movie that still strikes a nerve | Movies
[ad_1] Thelma & Louise has lost none of its bite, even after 30 years. When the film was released in 1991, it unleashed a wave of controversy that seemed to take its cast and crew by surprise. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon appeared on the cover of Time magazine, under the coverline “Why Thelma & […]
Kevin Spacey set for return to movies with paedophilia drama | Movies
[ad_1] Kevin Spacey, the actor who has faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct over the past four years, is set to return to film acting with a small role as a detective in an Italian crime drama. Spacey, 61, will play a police officer investigating the case of a man – played by the director, […]
Moscow’s oldest cinema reopens after seven-year renovation | Russia
[ad_1] While many cinemas around the world are shut and face difficulties in the coronavirus pandemic, one is bucking the trend: Moscow’s Khudozhestvenny, a storied venue that hosted some of the first showings of Battleship Potemkin in 1926 and had Leo Tolstoy among in its audience. After a seven-year renovation, the imperial-era cinema, which first […]
Baby Jaws? Scar Face the Lion? The origin stories we’d like to see | Movies
[ad_1] Nobody is ever really evil any more. The entertainment world has been working overtime filling in villain backstories lately, providing excuses and rationales for everyone from Joker to Maleficent, Hannibal to Nurse Ratched. Next up we have Disney’s Cruella, explaining what turned the 101 Dalmatians vamp from promising fashion designer to puppy-skinning wrong-un. What’s […]
Hear me out: why Equilibrium isn’t a bad movie | Christian Bale
[ad_1] Brutal. Impassive. Soul-crushing. These are all words that could describe Equilibrium’s near-future setting of Libria, a concrete mega-city where art is banned, mood-suppressing drugs are compulsory and the dour status quo is protected by a death squad led by Christian Bale in a big black tunic. But they could also describe the film’s reviews […]
‘They killed my best friend for supper!’ Gunda, the farmyard film that could put you off eating meat for ever | Documentary films
[ad_1] When Victor Kossakovsky was four, his parents sent him from St Petersburg to stay with his uncle’s family in the countryside. “It was a cold winter,” he says, brrr-ing over Zoom. “Minus 30 degrees.” Warmth came from the boy’s friendship with a one-month-old piglet named Vasya. They were inseparable – until she became cutlets […]
In the Heights review – Lin-Manuel Miranda musical loaded with Sunny-D optimism | Movies
[ad_1] There’s a sentimental kind of exuberance and more than two solid hours of dancing in the streets in this boisterous, if earnest, movie-musical version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit from 2008. (Famously, it was while taking a well-earned holiday after this stage success that Miranda chanced upon Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton – […]
Can anyone solve the puzzle of Paul Dano’s Riddler in The Batman? | The Batman
[ad_1] The Riddler has always been a Batman supervillain with a penchant for thorny posers. And yet usually the question marks are set by the caped crusader’s mischievous nemesis himself, as spiky traps for Gotham’s dark knight to fall into. In the case of Matt Reeves’ forthcoming The Batman, it looks as if they might […]
