Inspired by the new doc about star Twiggy, I felt compelled to work my way back to 1971’s The Boy Friend, a 1953 musical which was an unlikely post The Devils venture for British cinema’s most ...

Medak’s films as director are a varied bunch, from his brilliant collaboration with Peter O’Toole on The Ruling Class to the rather random franchise entry Species II. As a director, he seemed willing ...

Remember Carrie? The subject of Stephen King’s debut novel and a striking, iconic 1976 Brian DePalma movie, she was a bullied, lonely teenager who unleashed hell on earth on her tormentors. That ...

I’m on a run of successfully turning down attempts to get me to discuss reality tv game-shows; I’ve said no to Strictly Come Dancing, The Great British Bake Off and The Traitors in the last week. None ...

The Invisible Man doesn’t feature much transformation or even a character arc for Griffin, and that’s what makes it so fresh; ...

Yikes. The last time I checked in with an adaptation of Stone Cold Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility was back in 1995, when Ang Lee’s leads were played by Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan ...

Yikes! A strong contender for the worst movie of 2026 arrives in this form in a typically battered and broken package half-delivered by Amazon MGM studios, found soaking in a puddle after being ...

My enthusiasm continues undiminished for Season 2 of The Paper, the same-universe follow-up to beloved sitcom The Office which is still a streaming staple; this new show on NBC Peacock had big shoes ...

Let’s knowing get into even more trouble with Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Perhaps even more than Alfred Hitchcock, Kubrick is probably the most revered example of the film-maker as a ...

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Things move into a higher gear with Isa’s discovery of a diary belonging to the accident’s sole survivor Sandrine, who lies in a coma but is visited by Isa and Marie. The diary opens up an inner world ...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire was, alongside Parasite, a clear trial-blazer in the cross-over foreign picture stakes; despite the adulation of the highbrow critics, it’s a novel and moving love story ...