Film

By Anna Power Excited about upcoming US indie comedy smash The Big Sick coming to UK cinemas? You should be. It's feel-good, laugh out loud charm is a real treat for film lovers. Director Michael Showalter answered some questions on working with Kumail Nanjiani and race and its place in comedy. How did you come to work on Kumail and Emily's script for The Big Sick? ​Kumail and I have worked together in the past. He showed me the script...

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. The film also stars Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, Barkhad Abdi, Lennie James, Mackenzie Davis, and Sylvia Hoeks. Blade...

By Linda Marric In Whitney Can I Be Me, renowned British documentarian Nick Broomfield lift the lid on the life of one of the most famous pop stars of our time, and does his best to discover the secret behind her untimely demise at the age of 48. Broomfield uses extensive “never seen before” footage and numerous interviews with those closest to the singer to tell a truly distressing story of how the once squeaky clean princess of black pop,...

You wish to hear a tale that’s as old as time itself? How about the saga of a film studio desperate to recapture the magic? We’ve seen Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the antagonist; had Mowgli’s adventures in the jungle painstakingly retold to us with photo-real clarity; and found ourselves faced with Tim Burton’s warped vision of Wonderland… Never mind finding out if an angelic heroine will be strong enough to break the evil spell placed on a conceited...

Cillian Murphy at the world premiere of Dunkirk at the Odeon in Leicester Square. It tells the story of soldiers being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk during the Second War War. July 13 2017. Cillian Murphy at the world premiere of Dunkirk at the Odeon in Leicester Square. It tells the story of soldiers being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk during the Second War War. July 13 2017. Mark Rylance at the world premiere of Dunkirk at the...

By Michael McNulty Sex, Lies, and Videotape was supposedly showing at a West Berlin cinema when the wall fell and residents from the East descended on the cinema expecting to see a pornographic film. Those who stuck around to watch the film, once they realized it wasn’t a skin flick, will surely have left the cinema all the more satisfied. Steven Soderbergh wrote Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 8 days and secured a budget of 1.2 million (a bigger budget...

The Italian Job has been named the greatest British film ever made. A survey of 2,000 Brits put Peter Collinson's stylish 1969 crime caper in top spot - with fans fondly remembering its famous Mini Cooper chases and cliffhanger ending. The film tells the story of a gang of English crooks who plot to rob $4million worth of gold bullion from under the noses of the mob and the police in Turin. Sir Michael Caine, who played lead character Charlie...

Those who have been charmed by the wily confidence of George Blagden’s libidinous King Louis XIV in Versailles may find themselves taken aback by Jean-Pierre Léaud’s frail and reclusive incarnation of the Sun King, whom we are introduced to at the start of The Death of Louis XIV: Albert Serra’s solemn chronicle of the monarch’s final days. The palace of Versailles is no longer the buzzing hive of royal intrigue it once was, but an eerily quiet fortress from where...

Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP David Lynch is one of film’s most striking and unique directors. In the 40 years since his debut feature Eraserhead he has created some of the most singular works in modern American film. It is therefore a real challenge for a documentary about such a figure to live up to the person they are trying to depict. It is a pleasure then to say that David Lynch: The Art Life, the latest documentary about him, tries...