Review of the movie “The End We Start From”.
On February 6, the British survival film The End Where We Begin, starring Jodie Comer, had its online premiere. This is a film adaptation of the debut…
Benedict Cumberbatch on refugees from Ukraine who will live in his house: "They are currently being treated"
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch actively supports Ukrainians. A celebrity decided to settle refugees from Ukraine in his house. Now he is preparing for a meeting with the…
Oscars 2022 winners: Will Smith wins Best Actor, while CODA scoops Best Picture
Best Production Design WINNER: Dune: Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos Nightmare Alley: Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau The Power of the…
Oscars winners 2022: full list of results and nominees
Best Production Design Dune: Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos Nightmare Alley: Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau The Power of the Dog:…
Oscars 2022 predictions: who will win, who should win
The 2022 Oscar season has largely been a sedate old affair, with courteous campaigns and category frontrunners that broadly made sense. But now, as we round the…
Oscars 2022 predictions: who will win, who should win
The 2022 Oscar season has largely been a sedate old affair, with courteous campaigns and category frontrunners that broadly made sense. But now, as we round the…
The Power of the Dog is much like the Baftas – a tedious bore
I do love The Power of the Dog. Or, as it is better known at Pearson Towers, Crufts. On Sunday night, given a choice between tuning in…
The Power of The Dog debate: ‘boring’ or a masterpiece?
If awards season is tantamount to a Presidential election race, The Power of the Dog just emerged from a tough primary as the film to beat. Throughout the…
Baftas 2022 review: host Rebel Wilson’s wrecking-ball comedy included one stone-cold clunker that drew boos
The return to normality after two years of lockdowns, social distancing and Zoom quizzes has been a shaky experience for many. And as the 2022 Baftas (BBC…
Bring back the good old days when we were allowed to have our own opinion
Perhaps you saw that Sam Elliott (drawly 70-something American actor) has let it be known that he thinks The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion-directed western that’s…
Benedict Cumberbatch questions Netflix about short cinema run for his Oscar-nominated film
Multi-award-winning director Steven Spielberg has insisted in the past that Netflix makes films that “are just given token qualifications in a couple of theatres for less than…
‘Boring’ or a masterpiece? The great Power of The Dog divide
If being watched by precisely no one was any kind of excuse for the Golden Globes to go rogue, you’d never know it from the winners they…
The Power of the Dog, review: a blistering, career-best performance from Benedict Cumberbatch
Out on the bleached-bone Montana grasslands sits a large, glowering house: in the middle of a vast, sunlit landscape, a haven for shadows and draughts. The place…
Golden Globes 2022: Power of the Dog starring Benedict Cumberbatch wins best film
Cast members Jeremy Strong and Sarah Snook were both individually recognised at this year’s Globes for their performances. The pair play the sniping Roy siblings Kendall and…
Why there’s more to ‘outsider art’ than mental illness
A new film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, comes to cinemas this week. Its arrival has been accompanied by the suggestion that the…
Why there’s more to ‘outsider art’ than mental illness
A new film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, comes to cinemas this week. Its arrival has been accompanied by the suggestion that the…
Benedict Cumberbatch on Louis Wain: ‘He’s a quiet hero in a very loud, mechanised Victorian world’
In the wake of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, interest in his drawings is escalating. ‘When the film was released in Canada in October, I had…
Benedict Cumberbatch on Louis Wain: ‘He’s a quiet hero in a very loud, mechanised Victorian world’
In the wake of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, interest in his drawings is escalating. ‘When the film was released in Canada in October, I had…
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, review: an odd, intrepid biopic that wears its art on its sleeve
The mussed-up style can feel uncertain, but there’s a sincerity to Sharpe’s treatment of Wain, in all his life’s shambolic aspects, that tugs away at you. Toby…
Why there’s more to ‘outsider art’ than mental illness
A new film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, comes to cinemas this week. Its arrival has been accompanied by the suggestion that the…
The 20 best films of 2021
After cinemas were out cold with Covid for months on end, what a joy it’s been to see them punching back. The latest haymaker was landed this…
Spider-Man: No Way Home, review: superhero universes collide, with a pixelated thud
To the reader who prefers their film reviews to say nothing about the actual film at hand, here is your apparently necessary warning: click away now. Because…
Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Louis Wain: ‘He’s a quiet hero in a very loud, mechanised Victorian world’
In the wake of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, interest in his drawings is escalating. ‘When the film was released in Canada in October, I had…
Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Louis Wain: ‘I had to learn his signature quickfire brush strokes’
In the wake of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, interest in his drawings is escalating. ‘When the film was released in Canada in October, I had…