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The Guardian FilmUK‘It’s important that Michael’s voice is heard’: Jaafar Jackson says second biopic of his uncle will cover sexual abuse allegations The star of Michael, the most commercially successful biopic of all time, has said sequel will give airtime to point-of-view of late singer Of all the criticisms levelled at the authorised biopic of…
The Guardian FilmUK‘We’ll keep doing this if people pay us!’ The cast of TV hit Ghosts on making a movie – and maybe a caveman spinoff As the haunters of Button House hit the big screen with a plot about an escaped phantom, we hear how the team just missed each other too much – and why grunting Robin may get his own show When the…
The Guardian FilmUKExplosive births, talking foxes and the devil in a trenchcoat – the Sitges fantastic film festival in all its creepy glory Olivia Colman goes vulpine, Rupert Grint’s newborn is a monster and Joko Anwar makes a warmhearted violent ghost story set in an Indonesian prison If I’d ever wanted children, the films showing at…
The Guardian FilmUKChildren of the Wicker Man review – how the folk-horror classic haunted the family that made it Director Robin Hardy’s children lay bare the sometimes agonised family background to a movie that went from ruinous flop to cult favourite This documentary is a collaboration between Justin Hardy and…
The Guardian FilmUKTom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DC Digger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and…
The Guardian FilmUK‘Oh God, I can’t bear it’: Judi Dench says Cats film was ‘a waste of goodwill and talent’ The actor’s forthcoming memoir Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? says the makers had honourable intentions but the elements ‘didn’t coalesce’ Dame Judi Dench has long made her feelings clear about…
The Guardian FilmUKAll Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea review – stirring portrait of fishers driven to eco-activism With catches down 80%, dead crabs and lobsters washed up on beaches and officials denying any responsibility, Hartlepool seafarers have taken a stand Hartlepool fisherman Stan Rennie has been called…
The Guardian FilmUKA Zack Snyder DC Universe might not have been such a bad thing, after all After Joss Whedon’s arrival, back in the news with comments from Ben Affleck, the franchise lost a sense of earnest passion that could have sustained a weary DCEU Nine years after superhero epic…
The Guardian FilmUKElizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s buzzy film was shown on only 855 screens in the biggest documentary opening in North America since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 Nathan Fielder’s nearly three-hour…
The Guardian FilmUKNAZA directors: 'It's a film about systems of mass killing' – video The directors of Naza, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, answered questions from the Guardian's editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, at the film's London premiere on Thursday.
The Guardian FilmUKSelma Blair ‘did not intend to harm anyone’ during airplane incident, representatives say Actor experienced a ‘medical emergency’ on flight during which she allegedly injured crew members, statement says Actor Selma Blair did not mean to hurt anyone during the recent flight which led to…
The Guardian FilmUK‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on NAZA documentary Film interviewing military insiders about mass killing of civilians in Gaza wins widespread praise around the world Critics around the world have hailed the award-winning documentary NAZA as a…
The Guardian FilmUKStreet Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie There are brief, simple pleasures in the inevitable new big screen take on the classic game but like the recent Mortal Kombat movies, it’s a largely incoherent mess We just had Resident Evil , Zach…
The Guardian FilmUKWhalefall review – slimy survival thriller traps us in a whale and struggles to make it digestible Austin Abrams gets eaten by a sperm whale in an overlong and flashback-heavy adaptation of Daniel Kraus’s hit novel that only has us on edge in moments Spare a thought for poor Austin Abrams, who…
The Guardian FilmUKHow we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire Tom Cruise’s latest film could lose $250m (£190m) – could one reason be that audiences are tired of Hollywood telling them what they already know about the super-rich?
The Guardian FilmUKThe Social Reckoning isn’t as angry or as potent as a Facebook drama should be Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to return to the success of The Social Network is a strangely dated and incomplete look at a world that needs a sharper eye In retrospect, David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social…
The Guardian FilmUKOther Mommy review – Jessica Chastain’s demonic double horror isn’t nightmarish enough There’s some effectively unnerving imagery and a cleverly icy dual lead performance but this kept-from-critics shocker is a bit of a jumble The buzz surrounding the viral, limb-bending trailer of…
The Guardian FilmUKAnimals review – Ben Affleck’s dull Netflix thriller is lacking in bark and bite Actor-director’s listless LA-set crime thriller makes for a surprisingly anonymous effort and one that feels very similar to many other, better films Ben Affleck has pushed through multiple Hollywood…
The Guardian FilmUKMatchbox: the Movie review – as pointless as a film based on a toy car could be John Cena and Jessica Biel collect paychecks in a soulless and synthetic slab of corporate product that hints at what we can expect from the Paramount-Warner merger After a windy road, this week it…
The Guardian FilmUKWill the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism? The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism Hollywood is sending a clear message: it’s a friend of tech.
The Guardian FilmUKYou Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit New York film festival: No spoilers here – TV’s grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family For anyone remotely near the worlds of documentary, comedy or…
The Guardian FilmUKVerity review – erotic thriller leaves teethmarks as Dakota Johnson goes back to Fifty Shades territory Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett co-star in this unconvincing mystery about a struggling writer who is asked to ghostwrite for a bestselling author The nation is crying out for a really enjoyable…
The Guardian FilmUKDigger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film A new movie from the Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González…
The Guardian FilmUKYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother review – Mahershala Ali is a grieving hitman in soulful thriller Toronto film festival: the two-time Oscar-winner is an unusual killer in a compelling mix of pulpy action and family drama Latif, the solemn hitman played soulfully by Mahershala Ali, carries diapers…
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