Hear me out: why Chappie isn’t a bad movie | Chappie
[ad_1] The Irish Times published one of the most aggrieved reviews of Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 film Chappie, dismissing it with a single star rating and calling it “chaotic, discordant, sentimental and downright ugly”. Well: yes, yes, yes and yes! Correct! It is absolutely all of those things. Wonderfully so. A distressing sequence halfway through ticks […]
‘Take it easy, nothing matters in the end’: William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner
[ad_1] I think I’m arriving good and early for my interview with William Shatner when I click on our video chat link 10 minutes ahead of time. But Shatner has arrived even earlier: there he is, as soon as my Zoom screen opens, poking away at his computer. “I like to get in early to […]
Cher announces biopic to be made by Mamma Mia! producers | Cher
[ad_1] Cher has announced that a biopic about her life is in the works at Universal Pictures. She will co-produce the project, alongside Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, who produced the film adaptations of Mamma Mia! – the second of which, 2018’s Here We Go Again, starred Cher. Cher said that her “dear dear friend” […]
Cher’s films – ranked! | Movies
[ad_1] 10. If These Walls Could Talk (1996) HBO produced this heavy-handed but affecting anthology film on the topic of abortion, premiering it at the Toronto film festival on the combined star clout of Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek and, of course, Cher, who also directed the third (and best) of its segments. It remains her […]
Zack Snyder: ‘I don’t have a rightwing political agenda. People see what they want to see’ | Zack Snyder
[ad_1] Luca, Zack Snyder’s chow-labrador cross, is going bananas. It’s early morning in rural Pasadena and the air is filled with growls. When a bear ambled past the other day, Luca didn’t bat an eyelid. But the appearance of the gardener (who apparently comes every day) means he needs considerable restraint. So it was while […]
Pink: All I Know So Far review – parenting meets perilous pop stardom | Movies
[ad_1] The title of this fly-on-the-wall documentary following the pop star Pink and family on her 2018-19 world tour is taken from a recent song in which the Pennsylvanian lung-buster explains her life thus far to her daughter Willow. Traipsing round various European cities, we learn en route that the singer also wrote letters, to […]
New Deal For Artists: an unearthed film on how arts funding should work | Documentary films
[ad_1] In America, the culture war over state funding of arts programs never really ends, but rather assumes slightly altered forms over time. The latest battle lines have formed around Broadway, in desperate need of an infusion of cash from the government to survive the pandemic, much to the chagrin of budget-slashing conservatives. Not so […]
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop sued as man claims vagina-scented candle ‘exploded’ | Gwyneth Paltrow
[ad_1] Another day, another close call for Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina-scented candle. Texas resident Colby Watson is seeking a jury trial and damages of $5m (£3.5m) after an incident in which he claims one of Goop’s This Smells Like My Vagina candles exploded on his bedside table. Watson alleges he burned it for around three hours […]
Overshare: are there any good films about social media? | Movies
[ad_1] There are several elements of Mainstream, Gia Coppola’s dark satire of YouTube stardom released in theaters this month, that resemble a stick-figure rendering of internet fame. The film, written by Coppola, supposes that a technophobic, shady drifter named Link (Andrew Garfield) morphs, under the guidance of aspiring film-maker Frankie (Maya Hawke) into a messianic, […]
‘We went to the dark side’: horror film shows reality of Mexico’s migrant trail | Mexico
[ad_1] Two teenage boys wave goodbye to their mothers across a field in rural Mexico, leaving home in search of the American dream. The opening moments of the Mexican film-maker Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features, available to stream from this week, reflects scenes played out every day across Mexico and Central America, as men, women and […]
