Moon Knight, review: Oscar Isaac’s spectacular one-man double-act anchors Marvel’s best series yet
After the lacklustre Loki and the curiously insipid Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney+ bounds back to form with a chunk of Marvel that is, to borrow…
Ethan Hawke: ‘I could hear every nasty word the audience said about me…’
Recruiting him had been Isaac’s idea. Hawke lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Ryan, and their two daughters; Hawke also has two children from his…
Fresh, review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the table in this warped horror-thriller
A stranger called Steve (Sebastian Stan) makes a charmingly awkward impression in the fresh veg aisle, as Noa (Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones) consoles herself with some grocery…
It isn’t shocking – or radical – for Pixar to tackle puberty
Besides, how can alluding to menstruation through a box full of period products – which Mei’s mother produces in one scene – be inappropriate for young audiences,…
The Star Wars villain problem: why Disney is mad to ditch Darth Maul
Star Wars fans are red in the face from pointing out that scarlet-hued, spiky-headed Darth Maul is one of the saga’s great villains. And yet the Disney…
The Star Wars villain problem: why Disney is mad to ditch Darth Maul
Star Wars fans are red in the face from pointing out that scarlet-hued, spiky-headed Darth Maul is one of the saga’s great villains. And yet the Disney…
A bold and beautiful Pixar animation about female puberty? Turning Red is exactly that
It’s hard to know what’s more impressive about the latest Pixar film: its boundless artistry, ingenuity and loopy comic verve, or the mere fact that the studio…
‘Complete embarrassment and shock’: how Turning Red pushed Disney out of its comfort zone
A little over four years ago, Domee Shi was summoned by Bob Iger, Disney’s then-chief executive, to explain exactly how she was planning to spend around $200…
The Dropout, review: enthralling tale of the Silicon Valley guru who duped Joe Biden
The Dropout (Disney+) does something that feels positively radical these days: it tells a story straightforwardly and in chronological order. No ricocheting between time periods, no introduction…
Tom Holland is the box office superhero Hollywood needs
When, in early 2015, Sony Pictures announced it was teaming up with Marvel Studios to create a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, the general chorus of reaction…
Netflix invented the ‘binge watch’ – now it must die
The fourth season of Stranger Things is to be a blockbuster of two halves. The much anticipated, pandemic-waylaid Stranger Things 4 will arrive as a dastardly double…
The Book of Boba Fett finale, review: lame Star Wars spinoff should be sent to a galaxy far, far away
With The Mandalorian it seemed that Disney had done the impossible and restored to Star Wars an aura of intergalactic invincibility – while creating the cult of Baby…
What I, as a Rabbi, have in common with my friend Pamela Anderson
She told me her great aspiration for her life was to have a marriage like her parents that had lasted for decades, amid the kind of challenges…
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Pamela Anderson: ‘We should be wary of underestimating women like her’
She told me her great aspiration for her life was to have a marriage like her parents that had lasted for decades amid the kind of challenges…
George Lucas’s new hope: how Dave Filoni rescued Star Wars
A figure strides through a scene of deep-space carnage, bringing calm and order to the chaos. That is how Luke Skywalker made his grand entrance in the…
How Pamela Anderson’s ’90s bombshell look has found new relevance in 2022
This also means you can interpret the trends in whichever way suits you. If you’re paparazzi magnet Megan Fox, you might go all out, but if a…
Pam & Tommy and the relentless exploitation of Pamela Anderson
It had to happen to someone. Once the technology made it possible, the internet celebrity sex tape was an inevitability, and Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were…
Eat your heart out Elsa: Why real-life royals are dressing like Disney princesses
But dressing like a princess in 2022 is not just for the under-tens and titled. It’s a trend that is spilling into the mainstream, with tulle and…
Hollywood must take the fight to China’s lunatic censors
And they take it very seriously indeed. In November, Disney+ subscribers in Hong Kong noticed that an episode was missing from season 16 of The Simpsons: the…
Pam & Tommy, review: Nineties sex-tape drama tries to have its cake and ogle it
But alongside this ripe heist tale, director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) and writer Robert D Siegel (The Wrestler) are keen to explore the Anderson and Lee relationship….
How ‘dwarfist’ Snow White became Disney’s most problematic princess
The brothers did not invent the Snow White story. Variations on the tale have been traced as far afield as Scandinavia and Turkey – and most are…
Disney on thin ice as Peter Dinklage criticises ‘dwarfist’ Snow White remake
The planned remake of Snow White follows a string of successful live-action adaptations of animated classics produced by Disney, including Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. But…
Fresh, review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is better than ever in warped horror-thriller
A stranger called Steve (Sebastian Stan) makes a charmingly awkward impression in the fresh veg aisle, as Noa (Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones) consoles herself with some grocery…
Dick Van Moon Knight: why accents are Marvel’s worst special effect
The whole world is howling at Moon Knight. When it was announced Marvel’s answer to Batman was coming to Disney +, fans were looking forward to a…
Disney’s Encanto is a huge hit – and that’s bad news for Pixar
From the outside it all looks a bit vendetta-like – not least because Turning Red is being actively kept out of cinemas, rather than merely offered at…