Film
The Fantastic Four: First Steps review - innocence regainedSunday, 27 July 2025
Marvel goes back to its origins, gulping the fresh air of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s first hit comic The Fantastic Four in 1961. Ignoring recent flop film versions, it revels in a self-contained, space-age world as yet uncluttered with other costumed... Read more... |
Dying review - they fuck you up, your mum and dadFriday, 25 July 2025
Despite the title of Matthias Glasner’s award-winning drama, and the death that swirls around its characters, dying isn’t really its subject, but the mess of living. Dysfunctional family, eccentric love affairs, addiction, depression, creative... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: director Athina Rachel Tsangari on her brooding new film 'Harvest'Thursday, 24 July 2025
Over a decade ago, a handful of Greek filmmakers set out to reinvent the national cinema amid the country's social and economic decline. Athina Rachel Tsangari was one of the the most gifted.Her second feature Attenberg (2010), about a 23-... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The Rebel / The Punch and Judy ManTuesday, 22 July 2025
Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The warning signs were already present when 1961’s The Rebel (★★★★) was released. Hancock’s BBC career had been enormously... Read more... |
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silenceSaturday, 19 July 2025
A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male companions join her in clandestine conversation. The woman is Suzanne Césaire (Zita Hanrot), an influential Martinican journalist and... Read more... |
Harvest review - blood, barley and adaptationFriday, 18 July 2025
Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like sheet music transfigured into the sound of an orchestra. Too often, though, the resulting film can... Read more... |
Friendship review - toxic buddy alertThursday, 17 July 2025
The frenetic brand of humour that Tim Robinson brings to Friendship comes from a long lineage. There have been turbo-charged, mad-staring, cringe-inducing figures occupying the centre of comedies and propelling them at least as far back as Molière,... Read more... |
S/HE IS STILL HER/E - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary review - a shapeshifting open window onto a counter-cultural radicalWednesday, 16 July 2025
“I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people from half a mile away.”So says Gen, AKA Genesis P Orridge, AKA Neil Megson, in David Charles Rodrigues’s intimate portrait... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Heart of StoneTuesday, 15 July 2025
Heart of Stone (Das kalte Herz) was the first colour film produced by East Germany’s state film studio DEFA, a big-budget spectacular which attracted huge audiences upon its release in 1950.This adaptation of a macabre 19th century fairytale by... Read more... |
Superman review - America's ultimate immigrantMonday, 14 July 2025
A three-century-spanning countdown rapidly ticks to a version of now, and a beaten Superman (David Corenswet) ploughing into Arctic snow. His super-whistle fetches Superdog Krypto to excavate him like a favourite bone, and drag him to crystalline... Read more... |
The Other Way Around review - teasing Spanish study of a breakup with unexpected depthSaturday, 12 July 2025
Can a romcom be intellectually challenging while hitting all the sweet spots of the genre? Jonás Trueba, the director of the award-winning Spanish film The Other Way Around (Volveréis, literally “you will return”), has confected something close to... Read more... |
The Road to Patagonia review - journey to the end of the worldThursday, 10 July 2025
The journey not the destination matters in The Road to Patagonia, an epic pilgrimage of 30,000 miles that, unexpectedly, turns into a love story. Surfer boy and ecologist Matty Hannon grew up in Australia but after reading a book at university about... Read more... |
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