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‘Good and evil are at war': how Satanic horror has returned to haunt the age of Trump
The devil and his minions crop up in a rash of new horror films, from Deliver Us and Immaculate to reboots of The Exorcist and The Omen. What does this tell us about our current anxieties?
Anne Billson
05, Apr, 2024 @4:00 AM
The 20 best bathtub scenes – ranked
At the Golden Globes last Sunday, candles were passed around reportedly smelling like Jacob Elordi’s bathwater in the now-notorious scene from Saltburn. But how does that sequence compare with the splashy competition?
Anne Billson
11, Jan, 2024 @12:30 PM
Biopic woman: move over Napoleon, Ferrari and Oppenheimer … here come the wives
From Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to Michael Mann’s Ferrari, this has been a year of biopics about men, by men. But it’s the female powerhouses who deserve equal billing
Anne Billson
04, Jan, 2024 @12:21 PM
‘Entirely astounding’: Emma Stone’s star continues to rise with Poor Things
Critics have been falling over themselves trying to describe Stone’s latest performance, which is heavily tipped to land her a fourth Oscar nomination
Anne Billson
29, Dec, 2023 @12:43 PM
Emma Stone’s 20 best performances – ranked!
Ahead of her 35th birthday and the release of Poor Things, which she co-produced, we assess Stone’s key roles from the critically mauled depths to the Oscar-winning heights
Anne Billson
02, Nov, 2023 @12:45 PM
Saoirse Ronan’s 10 best performances – ranked!
At the age of 29, the actor already has four Oscar nominations – but which performance deserved a trophy the most? Ahead of the release of her new sci-fi thriller Foe, we rate her greatest roles
Anne Billson
19, Oct, 2023 @10:07 AM
Body swaps, timewarps and other fresh hell – the Sitges film festival 2023
Catalonia’s annual celebration of strange screen tales included a murderous birthmark, weretigers and a therapist overcome with ancient evil
Anne Billson
17, Oct, 2023 @5:00 AM
The 20 best films about doomed love – ranked!
As Past Lives, a tale of lost love and roads not taken, hits cinemas, get out the tissues as we recall some of cinema’s most heart-wrenching, tortuous romances
Anne Billson
07, Sep, 2023 @12:00 PM
More gore please: don’t waste my time with blood-free monster movies | Anne Billson
Steven Spielberg mastered the art of carnage in Jaws and Jurassic Park, but pale imitators such as Meg 2 seem to have forgotten how to do it
Anne Billson
16, Aug, 2023 @11:16 AM
Elizabeth Taylor’s 20 best performances – ranked!
As Cleopatra turns 60, and its star’s romance with Richard Burton becomes the subject of a new play at the National, we take a trip down the Queen of the Nile’s finest films
Anne Billson
01, Jun, 2023 @11:00 AM
From Hugo to Chucky and Annabelle – who is the scariest doll of them all?
From the creepy ventriloquist’s doll in Dead of Night, to M3gan and The Boy, via The Conjuring and Child’s Play, dolls have made a consistently chilling contribution to the horror genre
Anne Billson
20, Apr, 2023 @3:07 PM
Faye Dunaway’s 10 best performances – ranked!
Ahead of the Oscar-winning actor’s 82nd birthday this weekend, we mark her finest moments, from camp histrionics to the most archetypal of femmes fatales
Anne Billson
12, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM
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