Allison Janney: ‘I would get cast as 40-year-old women when I was still in my teens’Janney, who didn’t find success as an actor until she was in her late 30s, thinks things are looking up for women – even very tall women – in HollywoodMon Jun 01 2015 - 03:00
The Connection review: a fresh slice of deja vuThe scourge of these streets is a debilitating case of ScorsesismsThu May 28 2015 - 22:36
The Dead Lands review: is there an award for Most Onomatopoeic Movie Killing Spree?Beautifully shot, brightly performed actioner that serves Maori martial-art wellThu May 28 2015 - 21:00
Man Up review: a boy-girl bromance with screwy mechanicsWelcome back, discredited genreThu May 28 2015 - 19:00
Jason Schwartzman: “It was fun in a way because you rarely in your life get to be such an asshole”Jason Schwartzman is best known for quirky comic roles, but he really enjoyed playing an ‘asshole’ in Alex Ross Perry’s new indie film ‘Listen Up Philip’Thu May 28 2015 - 16:06
Poltergeist review: things that go yawn in the nightDespite a promising director and decent actors, this horror reboot fails to deliver a single scareWed May 27 2015 - 15:46
Lake Bell: ‘I’m great for article writers. So many puns’Her name is manna for copy writers but cool New York actor Lake Bell turns out to be cheerfully straightforwardFri May 22 2015 - 05:00
A Fuller Life: A no-nonsense approach to the fatherDirector Samantha Fuller’s warm salute to her legendary father takes a direct route to its subjectThu May 21 2015 - 21:00
Moomins on the Riviera review: minor Moomins are better than no Moomins at allSimple Moomin and his clan take on wealthy phonies in this gentle Scandi animationThu May 21 2015 - 19:00
Tomorrowland review: Here today, gone tomorrowIt is hard to escape the fact that this convoluted blockbuster started life as a Disney rideThu May 21 2015 - 17:00
Dheepan: lacks the gravitas of Jacques Audiard’s best-loved works | Cannes ReviewA contender in the main competition, ‘Dheepan’ nevertheless feels like a doodle compared to Audiard’s recent outputThu May 21 2015 - 13:29
Green Room: hardcore punks battle neo-Nazi thugs - what’s not to like? | Cannes ReviewFeaturing fine performances and even finer brutality, Jeremy Saulnier’s gruesome battle of American sub-cultures is one of the best of the festThu May 21 2015 - 11:47
The New Girlfriend review: Clever approach to sexual identityFrançois Ozon uses all his subtlety as a director in this Ruth Rendell adaptationThu May 21 2015 - 11:30
Youth: flawed, lovely, odd | Cannes ReviewPaolo Sorrentino’s latest star-studded affair is ravishingly beautiful but a little short on coherenceWed May 20 2015 - 15:23
Mountains May Depart: Time shifts, culture clashes and a potentially award-winning performance | Cannes reviewJia Zhangke is one of the world’s top filmmakers and this is his most audacious work yet, but this mountain is not as solid as it first seemsWed May 20 2015 - 11:31
François Ozon: the new new waveSatirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his styleSat May 16 2015 - 10:15
Still review: A sleek slice of promising London noirThis fascinating feature debut from Simon Blake spends much of its duration working out what it wants to be: domestic drama, London noir, social-realist tragedy - but never quite finds an answerThu May 14 2015 - 21:30
The Tribe review: Get an earful of thisWe won’t see a more impressive film this year than this Ukranian drama set in a school for the deafThu May 14 2015 - 20:30
Clouds of Sils Maria review: Kristen Stewart hails CésarIt’s cloudy with a chance of pretension in this meta-puzzler, but Stewart’s award-winning performance is perfectly ambiguousThu May 14 2015 - 19:30
Jim Sheridan: ‘Cinema is kill, kill, kill’The film director will receive a lifetime-achievement award at this month’s Ifta ceremony. But he’s still shouting, arguing and making ‘uncivilised’ moviesSat May 09 2015 - 11:00
Chris Rock: ‘We’re not as funny as we used to be. It’s not as important as it used to be’In ‘Top Five’, his new film, the comedian plays a stand-up comic trying to cut it as a ‘serious’ actor – but he’s not giving up on comedy’s artistic merits yetFri May 08 2015 - 16:00
Heaven Adores You review: Needs 10 per cent less TLC and 90 per cent more TMZThis crowdfunded biopic of the late Elliott Smith veers a bit to much into hagiographyFri May 08 2015 - 15:29
Top Five review: Chris Rock is back, and he’s doing it with 10 per cent more stankBirdman meets 8 1/2 in Chris Rock’s spot-on satire of the Hollywood spin machine – with a nice romance to bootFri May 08 2015 - 09:13
The Canal review: Where has all the Bergman gone?Have you ever wondered: why has no cinematographer ever sought to capture the thousands of glorious greys that define Irish skies?Thu May 07 2015 - 20:00
Rosewater review: Jon Stewart’s prisoner showA worthy enough drama about journalist arrested in Iran after cracking a few jokes on The Daily ShowThu May 07 2015 - 19:00
Top 10 Movie Girl Gangs: From Black Widows to Pink LadiesAhead of the release of the much anticipated coming-of-age drama Girlhood, we take a look at some of cinema's greatest girl gangsWed May 06 2015 - 15:57
Girlhood: a rare close-up for young black actresses in French cinemaGirlhood, set in the Paris suburbs, will make a star of Karidja Touré and is a milestone for French cinemaMon May 04 2015 - 04:00
Matthias Schoenaerts: ‘I have a very interesting problem with authority’He hates being told what to do, but Carey Mulligan’s costar in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ joined the film world nevertheless – and is now Hollywood’s intense, go-to period hunkSat May 02 2015 - 01:00
Argerich/Bloody Daughter review: a temperament to match her talentThe daughter of Martha Argerich has fashioned a fond documentary portrait of her piano prodigy parentFri May 01 2015 - 07:00
Two by Two review: a bit of déjà vu but a pleasing family entertainment nonethelessWhen the evenings qualify as a grand stretch, you can be sure the season for opportunistic, cheap-as-chips animations is upon usFri May 01 2015 - 06:30
8½ review: the national anthem of FelliniHalf a century on, Fellini’s hallucinogenic masterpiece is the moviest of all moviesThu Apr 30 2015 - 17:00
A Pigeon Sat in a Branch Reflecting on Existence review: Deadpan surrealism – plus the kitchen sinkA Pigeon Sat in a Branch Reflecting on Existence is the final instalment of a trilogy that began in 2000 with Songs From the Second FloorFri Apr 24 2015 - 12:41
Roy Andersson: “You can look at us with humour or fear. But we are all vulnerable”With only five features in 45 years, this iconoclastic Swede director of ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’ is willing to wait to make movies his way – no matter whose feathers get ruffledFri Apr 24 2015 - 06:30
The Falling review: combining kitchen-sink grit and otherworldly mysteryMaisie Williams stars as a schoolgirl in a tragic, quasi-Sapphic relationshipThu Apr 23 2015 - 18:00
The Salvation review: king of the wild frontierFormer Manchester United striker Eric Cantona is the law enforcer in a good old-fashioned westernFri Apr 17 2015 - 09:30
Director Carol Morley: ‘It sounds a bit mad. But it’s the only way I know.’Director Carol Morley’s new film, ‘The Falling’, chronicles a fainting epidemic at an all-girls schoolFri Apr 17 2015 - 09:30
Cry of the City review: New York noir from Robert SiodmakDresden-born director’s lesser-known story is well worth rediscoveringFri Apr 17 2015 - 08:30
Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance reviewCrowd-pleasing documentary about a classic under-horse storyFri Apr 17 2015 - 07:30
A Little Chaos review: Portrait of a landscape in need of a good weedingA film that can’t decide if it’s a love story, a portrait of grief, a comedy of manners, or if it’s just happy doing chocolate-box historical postcardsThu Apr 16 2015 - 13:36
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 review: a terminally boring sequelThe franchise that never should produces a film that just can’tFri Apr 10 2015 - 15:52
Cobain: Montage of Heck review: a brilliant portrait of a brilliant artistWhat can be said that hasn’t already been explored by earlier documentaries? Plenty, apparentlyFri Apr 10 2015 - 13:40
Keanu Reeves: ‘Did you see my movie?’As Keanu returns to action-hero duty in ‘John Wick’, Tara Brady finds him as fantastically unassuming as everFri Apr 10 2015 - 06:00
Ethan Hawke: ‘I’ve always thought of having a lot of money as a bit embarrassing’From ‘Boyhood’ to turning down Batman, the actor’s is not a typical careerFri Apr 10 2015 - 05:30
Force Majeure review: a crowd-pleasing, chatter-generating thrillerForce Majeure displays the kind of bitter disputes that can only happen in close familiesThu Apr 09 2015 - 13:44
Something Must Break review: standard-issue non-standard romanceEven in its relative infancy, the trans spectrum LGBTQ sub-genre already seems to have congealed into a familiar series of tropesFri Apr 03 2015 - 08:00
The Duff review: not quite up to Mean Girls’ standardsThe ‘designated ugly fat friend’ just looks two per cent less like Keira Knightley than the rest of the castFri Apr 03 2015 - 07:00
Noah Baumbach: filmmaker in his ‘Ray of Light’ periodTwo strikingly sunny new films confirm the New York writer-director’s gift for reinventionThu Apr 02 2015 - 16:00
Fast and Furious 7 review: much too fast, all too futileThe tragic and sudden death of actor Paul Walker is the least of this bombastic, mutton-headed sequel’s many problemsThu Apr 02 2015 - 14:00
Kenneth Branagh: ‘They thought I was the Shakespeare guy... Thor changed everything’How on Earth did Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean protectorate, suddenly become a director of Hollywood blockbusters?Fri Mar 27 2015 - 13:11
The Tale of Princess Kaguya: a masterly feast for the eyesIsao Takahata’s gorgeous film uses dusty stories to reveal timeless prejudices and foolishnessFri Mar 27 2015 - 11:02
