Film
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) review – a sapphic sci-fi slog
Bertrand Mandico’s kitsch erotic tale set on an all-female planet sounds more fun than it is
Wendy Ide
09, Oct, 2022 @11:00 AM
The Cordillera of Dreams review – a poetic portrait of Chile
The Andes become a metaphor for Chile’s rocky political history in Patricio Guzmán’s highly personal film about his homeland
Wendy Ide
09, Oct, 2022 @10:30 AM
Vengeance review – a New Yorker turns sleuth in Texas in mildly amusing comedy-mystery
BJ Novak directs and stars as a New York podcaster who travels south to investigate the death of an ex
Wendy Ide
09, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM
The Lost King review – Sally Hawkins saves Richard III dig drama
The team behind Philomena turn the true story of how the infamous king’s remains were found under a Leicester car park into an uneven comedy drama
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
09, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM
‘We were taught to be winners’: refugee turned Olympian Yusra Mardini on the Netflix drama of her life
The swimming prowess of the Syrian Nardini sisters helped save their sinking refugee boat. Here Yusra talks about The Swimmers, the new film that tells their amazing story
Alice O'Keeffe
08, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM
Amsterdam review – don’t try to keep up
David O Russell brings plenty of pizzazz to this 1930s mystery, but the ambitious jigsaw puzzle of a plot is almost impossible to follow
Wendy Ide
08, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM
Secret Cinema’s new owners want to be the Netflix of live events
TodayTix eyes global expansion for UK firm known for immersive film screenings, which took a Covid hammering
Mark Sweney
08, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM
Streaming: the best werewolf films
Gael García Bernal’s performance on Disney+ as Marvel’s crime-fighting Werewolf By Night joins hirsute favourites from The Wolf Man to The Howling
Guy Lodge
08, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM
Edinburgh’s film festival changed culture. Its closure is a serious loss to cinema | Mark Cousins
Global film greats flocked to the festival because of its dedication to the art – and because they know great pictures are nothing without great picturehouses
Mark Cousins
07, Oct, 2022 @3:33 PM
Hellraiser review – stylish goth horror remake is as sadistic as it is silly
An opulently designed, if indulgently overlong, remix of the gory 1987 chiller offers up some effectively gnarly violence
Benjamin Lee
07, Oct, 2022 @7:13 AM
Luckiest Girl Alive review – Mila Kunis runs out of luck in flat Netflix drama
A hollow adaptation of Jessica Knoll’s 2015 novel centers on a woman whose perfect life is corroded by past trauma
Adrian Horton
07, Oct, 2022 @7:01 AM
Jamie Lee Curtis on Halloween Ends: ‘Laurie Strode is a feminist hero’
It is 44 years since she first played Strode in the film that wrote the slasher flick template. As the franchise comes to a finale, Curtis and directors John Carpenter and David Gordon Green discuss growth, trauma – and closure
Xan Brooks
07, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM
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