New Gods and dead heroes: why Snyder’s DC plans are temptingly off the wall | Film
[ad_1] The idea that Zack Snyder is a visionary still doesn’t sit quite right, even following his surprisingly excellent Justice League re-cut. After all, this is the director of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a movie that always seemed as if it had been named by the marketing department and only then sent to […]
Is the devil really Prada? An uneasy history of fashion as cinema’s punchbag | Fashion
[ad_1] Which professions get a bad press in the movies? TV executives tend to be portrayhed as manipulative and sociopathic. Journalists can be boozy and lazy (although sometimes they’re dishy investigative idealists, like Woodward and Bernstein). Nightclub owners are awful. Dentists are creepy. Hotel receptionists are sinister. But if there’s one trade that’s somehow perennially […]
Nobody review – Bob Odenkirk betters John Wick in fun action caper | Film
[ad_1] For any vaguely fit actor over the age of 50, being given your own Taken was briefly seen as an enviable career boost, a chance to relive former glories, a slickly choreographed leap from an early Hollywood grave back to the sandlot. Ever since Liam Neeson swapped emoting for punching back in 2008, Kevin […]
‘I have to keep smiling’: how the female pop star documentary got real | Film
[ad_1] The YouTube docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which premiered at SXSW last week and is being released online over the coming month, is a four-episode punch of honesty, brutal both for the viewer and, seemingly, for Demi Lovato. While ostensibly a vehicle to address the headline-generating drug overdose that nearly killed her […]
Hear me out: why 1941 isn’t a bad movie | Film
[ad_1] “What a mess! What a goddamn mess!” Real-life army general Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack) says this, right when a car veers off the road and flips over on its side behind him, in the wild-as-hell second world war comedy 1941. While he’s describing the pandemonium that’s taking place on-screen, he’s also perfectly describing the […]
From Gnomeo & Juliet to Baz Luhrmann: 10 of the best Romeo and Juliets | Culture
[ad_1] William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)Amazon Prime Video Sun’s out, guns out: Baz Luhrmann captures the temper-fraying, passion-sparking heat of Shakespeare’s summertime tragedy. We’re in Verona (or is that Venice?) Beach, where the boardwalk throbs and shirts are either loud or absent. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are love’s young dreamers, and – in […]
Yaphet Kotto: a life in pictures | Film
[ad_1] The Monkey Hustle (aka The Monkey Hu$tle), 1976Original caption: Yaphet Kotto as Daddy Foxx, topline hustler and conman, puffs on his ever present cigar as he eyes his twelve-year-old apprentice and imitator, Kirk Calloway as Baby D, as they ponder their next move in this fun-filled look at a facet of contemporary ghetto life […]
The making of a heavyweight: Scorsese and De Niro behind the scenes of Raging Bull – in pictures | Film
[ad_1] The award-winning biopic of Jake LaMotta was released 40 years ago. With these exclusive images, Jay Glennie, who interviewed the cast and crew for a new book, reveals secrets of the film’s shoot Raging Bull: The Making Of, by Jay Glennie is published on 5 April by Coattail. Use code RBP10 to receive a […]
Cocaine Bear: the must-see and must-avoid movie of 2022 | Film
[ad_1] There is a school of thought that Elizabeth Banks’s version of Charlie’s Angels flopped because it was too familiar; it was in effect a reboot of a reboot of an iconic television series that had long wrung itself dry. People knew exactly what to expect from it, so they stayed away. That’s unlikely to […]
Why You Need to Watch ‘Five’ for Women’s History Month
[ad_1] If no man is an island, then every woman is an archipelago, inextricably linked to other women rooting for her across time and space. At least, this is the overarching, heart-affirming takeaway from Five, a new series of documentary short films, commissioned by Mastercard in association with ShortsTV, that follows the journeys of five […]
