Keanu Reeves Lover, fighter, fantasy figure: was Patrick Swayze the perfect movie star?The Telegraph - By Tom FordyIt would take a heart of stone to not love Patrick Swayze. As a leading man he had the full gamut covered – a romantic, a tough guy, a funnyman, an action hero, and even a villain – and paved the way dirty
Joaquin Phoenix A profound study of alienation and mass violence: is America ready for Joaquin Phoenix's Joker?The Telegraph - By Tim StanleyThere’s bound to be a moral panic around Joker. Weeks before its October release, director Todd Phillips's hardboiled take on the Batman villain has already been called "the most controversial comic book
Never mind Who Framed Roger Rabbit – how on earth did they shoot him?The Telegraph - By Tom FordySo, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? That’s a question with two meanings: who framed the cartoon rabbit for murder – as investigated by Bob Hoskins’s drunken, sourpuss gumshoe (no whodunit spoilers here, even
Hilary Swank When films come dangerously close to the real worldThe Telegraph - By Adam WhiteDays before 29 people were murdered in a pair of mass shootings within the same 24 hours, one in El Paso, Texas and the other in Dayton, Ohio, a trailer was released for The Hunt, a satirical thriller
Antonio Banderas Pain and glory: why Pedro Almodóvar made a biographical film starring his old muse Antonio BanderasThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinThe first thing Antonio Banderas noticed was the briefcase – because whose briefcase is red? It was lunchtime at Café Gijón, a Madrid coffee house where artists and intellectuals had sparred over cortados
Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson on their 23-year age gap and why love conquers allThe Telegraph - By Jessamy CalkinThey met and fell in love during the making of her debut feature film – a director and her leading man. Now married with children, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson have returned to work together, bringing
Faye Dunaway Perfectionist or pain in the backside? Why Hollywood has always had a problem with Faye DunawayThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyThe legendarily difficult Faye Dunaway, at 78, has just gained a certain distinction in Hollywood’s post-#metoo environment, in being one of few women at the receiving end of a lawsuit alleging abusive
Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor has shown little but contempt for Star Wars – why would he want to play Obi-Wan Kenobi again?The Telegraph - By Ed PowerThe disappointments began early for Jedi Padawan Ewan McGregor. On one of his first days playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace, the script called for McGregor and his co-star Neeson
Play button The best films to watch at the cinema this week – and what to avoidThe Telegraph - By Tim Robey and Robbie CollinThis week’s cinema includes the much-anticipated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s extraordinary re-imagining of the Manson murders. Transit is a German tale of escaping the Nazis; JT
Child Actors From The Exorcist to Good Boys: are child actors messed up by adult films?The Telegraph - By Alex GodfreyThere is meta-marketing for Good Boys, the raunchy new comedy from Superbad/Sausage Party producing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Bus-stop posters feature a theme park-like height line, informing
Dora the Explorer Dora and the Lost City of Gold review: a sweet, silly antidote to summer break boredomThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: James Bobin; Starring: Isabela Moner, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, Jeff Wahlberg, Madeleine Madden, Nicholas Coombe, Eugenio Derbez. PG cert, 102 mins. Okay, so it’s no Tarantino. But there might be
Mindhunter Murder before Mindhunter: how Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer changed the way we see psychopathsThe Telegraph - By Ed PowerA young man with bristling hair and disturbing cheekbones hefts a case from the back of his car and into the bushes. As he drives away the camera lingers on the battered valise. We cut to black. Such the
Kristen Stewart JT Leroy review: maddeningly flat retelling of a twisty literary hoaxThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Justin Kelly; Starring: Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Jim Sturgess, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Diane Kruger. 15 cert. 106 mins As a masterclass in having as little fun as possible with an irresistible premise,
Bruce Lee Bruce Lee's daughter tells Quentin Tarantino to 'shut up'The Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersBruce Lee's daughter has told Quentin Tarantino to "shut up" in a row over the depiction of the martial artist in Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood. Lee is portrayed as arrogant in the black comedy, to
Godzilla From Godzilla-size chickens to a stop-motion Aeneid: the lost worlds of Ray HarryhausenThe Telegraph - By John WalshFor decades, Ray Harryhausen was cinema’s special-effects man of choice. You will know his work – from the armoured skeletons at the end of Jason and the Argonauts to the Medusa from Clash of the Titans,
Transit Transit, review: a touching tale of flight from the Nazis that dodges the hot political buttonsThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer. 12A cert, 102 min The German director Christian Petzold started his career with spooky,
Film (UK) Good Boys, review: devoid of empathy or fun, this is a crime against schoolboy comedyThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Gene Stupnitsky. Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon, Keith L Williams, Molly Gordon, Midori Francis, Will Forte, Lil Rel Howery. 15 cert, 90 min Good Boys has a simple pitch – Superbad for tweens –
Celebrity News Disney executives reportedly worried about forthcoming Hitler satire JoJo RabbitThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersAdolf Hitler and the horrors of war don't immediately seem like Disney territory, so it's hardly surprising that executives at the House of Mouse are getting concerned over a forthcoming film that deals
My life as a literary scam artist: how JT Leroy seduced the world without actually existingThe Telegraph - By Ralph JonesI always think of this story as like a BDSM fairytale gone wrong,” says Savannah Knoop, a 38-year-old artist from San Francisco. This description - of a subordinate forgetting the rules of the game and
Prince Eric Harry Styles says no to Disney for Little Mermaid's Prince EricThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersHarry Styles has turned down the role of Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid. The former One Direction singer, 25, was said to have been in talks with Disney over appearing in their live-action reimagining
Leonardo Dicaprio Leonardo DiCaprio's sleazy past: whatever happened to the 'Pussy Posse'?The Telegraph - By Adam WhiteIn 1998, New York City’s streets were under siege from the most famous movie star in the world and his collection of less-handsome and less-famous friends. They didn’t call themselves the "Pussy Posse",
BTS UK box office report, August 9–11: Kevin Costner’s new film is a dog, but BTS are bringing the soulThe Telegraph - By Charles GantDisney’s big budget still rules the roost, but Gurinder Chadha has a heartfelt alternative, writes Charles Gant in his weekly box-office bulletin Two films from Disney continue to dominate the UK box conversation.
Die Hard The Hunt called off: how a gun-crazy Hollywood liberal fantasy ended up in Trump’s crosshairsThe Telegraph - By Cal Revely-CalderShould we appreciate people who murder those with different political beliefs? In everyday life, we tend to find it unacceptable, all things considered, but on screen it makes for the villains we need
Transgender The attack on Adam: why a small 'trans deception' movie is tearing the LGBTQ community apartThe Telegraph - By Eleanor MargolisBased on a novel by a lesbian, directed by a trans man, and starring several trans and non-binary actors, Adam looked set to be the queer indie hit of this summer. And yet, with its release weeks away,
Luton Blinded by the Light is set in Luton - can humdrum towns inspire great art?The Telegraph - By Stuart HeritageI come from Ashford in Kent. In terms of cultural legacy, it’s a wasteland. Nobody has ever written a classic song about Ashford. No blockbuster films have ever been set here. The most famous person who
Sharon Tate Why did it take a psychopath to make Sharon Tate a star?The Telegraph - By Robbie CollinSharon Tate was groomed to be the one 'everyone wants' – then her murder split Hollywood history in two, writes Robbie Collin As she shuttled between acting, singing and dance classes, dietitians, stylists,
Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh versus the giant robot spider: 20 years of Wild Wild WestThe Telegraph - By Simon BlandGuns, quips, an 80 foot-tall mechanical spider – Barry Sonnenfeld’s high-concept steampunk adventure Wild Wild West seemingly had ‘summer blockbuster’ written all over it. Released in 1999, it reunited
Judy Garland ‘Judy wasn’t evil, Judy was sad’: Why Garland will always belong to LondonThe Telegraph - By Alice VincentAs Judy Garland’s final home is torn down, and loses the chance of a blue plaque, Alice Vincent examines the tragic singer’s relationship with London The Judy Garland Fan Club have lost their longest to
LEGO movie Playmobil: The Movie review: like being beaten over the head with the Argos catalogueThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Lino DiSalvo; Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Gabriel Bateman, Jim Gaffigan, Adam Lambert, Meghan Trainor, Daniel Radcliffe. U cert, 99 mins After The Lego Movie was released in 2014, it’s easy to imagine
