Film
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17 movies that should never have won Oscars, from Shakespeare in Love to Slumdog Millionaire
Any belief that the Oscars award the right films, directors and performances has faded over the years. While every ceremony…
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Dune: Part Two gives great actors insultingly little screen time – but maybe that’s the key to its success
Has there ever been a cast as stacked as Dune: Part Two? The new sci-fi sequel has got to be…
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Love him or hate him, David Lean was ‘the Christopher Nolan of his day’
It makes you happy and want to cry at the same time,” rhapsodised Hoyte van Hoytema, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer who…
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Ian McShane on Deadwood, social media and the demise of American Gods: ‘I was getting bored with it’
Ian McShane loves a monologue. It’s ironic, really, given the actor has mostly shunned the theatre for screen projects such…
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How to win an Oscar? Sex, spin and very dirty tricks
Few today have heard of the 1997 Dutch movie Character, but it won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. So…
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Madame Web is beyond abysmal – it’s the most entertaining superhero film in ages
It was inevitable that Madame Web would tank. Dakota Johnson as the eponymous psychic, a peripheral character who occasionally pops…
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Dune: Part Two review – audacious, intimate, and menacing like no other blockbuster in existence
There are moments in Dune: Part Two that feel so audacious, they play out as if they were already etched…
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Memory review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard rise above this film’s contrived misery
Memory would be too contrived a work to buy into if it weren’t for the talents of Jessica Chastain and…
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The Patsys: Diva dogs, Ronald Reagan’s chimp and the surreal history of ‘the animal Oscars’
There’s one Oscar snub this year that’s been wildly overlooked: Messi, the well-trained border collie of Justine Triet’s courtroom drama…
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