Fleabag (TV Series) Steel Country, review: Andrew Scott was a Fleabag favourite, but his versatility has limitsThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Simon Fellows Cast: Andrew Scott, Denise Gough, Bronagh Waugh, Jared Bankens, Catherine Dyer, J.D. Evermore 15 cert, 88 min It’s no fluke of distribution that the Irish production Steel Country, small-town
Judi Dench Red Joan, review: Judi Dench is wasted in this absurd portrayal of the Bolshevik of BexleyheathThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Trevor Nunn; Starring: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbova. 12A cert, 101 mins. Judi Dench is a significant asset in the veteran
Michael Bay Loro, review: Berlusconi biopic makes Michael Bay look like early BressonThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Paolo Sorrentino; Starring: Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Euridice Axen, Fabrizio Bentivoglio. 18 cert, 151 mins. This satirical biopic of Silvio Berlusconi
Terrence Malick Cannes 2019 line-up: Ken Loach and Terrence Malick, but no Quentin Tarantino (yet)The Telegraph - By Agence France-PresseVeteran directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick head the line-up of a “highly political” Cannes Film Festival next month, its director Thierry Fremaux said Thursday. But the big news was that there was
Coachella Festival Homecoming, Netflix, review: Beyoncé's Coachella concert film is a transcendent musical triumphThe Telegraph - By Adam WhiteSince the release of her earth-shaking 2016 album Lemonade, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has become such an enigma –with her inscrutable Instagram feed, and non-existent press access – that it’s enough to leave
Tim Burton UK box office report, April 12-14: Hellboy freezes over, and Dumbo soarsThe Telegraph - By Charles GantTim Burton's Disney reboot has taken flight, while bad reviews could be keeping punters away from Hellboy, writes Charles Gant in his weekly box office bulletin The winner: Dumbo During school holiday
Fleabag (TV Series) Andrew Scott, the sexy priest in Fleabag, on making Catholicism relevantThe Telegraph - By Serena DaviesAndrew Scott – the sexy priest in Fleabag – tells Serena Davies about getting in character and making Catholicism relevant Britain has a new sex symbol. Google “hot priest” right now and you get some
James Bond From firings to Fleabagging: a Bond 25 timelineThe Telegraph - By Alice VincentThe release of Bond 25 is less than a year away and yet the forthcoming 007 film hasn’t got a name, has entertained a number of directors and – according to the most recent reports – is still in need emergency
Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino: why Sergio Leone is my favourite filmmakerThe Telegraph - By Quentin TarantinoSergio Leone is my favourite filmmaker. There’s no other director I’ve taken so much from. And the movie that made me consider filmmaking, the movie that really illustrated what a director could do, is
Prequels From Star Wars to Grease: why movie prequels are (almost) always a bad ideaThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyI come not to praise prequels, but to bury them. Appropriately, the word came into mainstream parlance for a long-forgotten film: 1979’s Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, which swapped Newman and Redford
Once Upon a Time in the West: behind the scenes of the greatest Western ever madeThe Telegraph - By Christopher FraylingSergio Leone’s ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ is a fairy-tale for grown-ups, says Christopher Frayling – plus Bernardo Bertolucci, Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale on how the 1968 epic changed their Sergio
Marvel Studios Avengers Endgame interview: the stars on saying goodbye to the Marvel universeThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinThis is the age of the cinematic universe, and it was Marvel Studios that brought on the Big Bang. Back in 2008, the then-diminutive filmmaking offshoot of the comic-book publisher Marvel Enterprises a
Star Wars Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer: Carrie Fisher returns in J.J Abrams' final episodeThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersThe very first trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX is finally here. Produced, co-written and directed by J. J. Abrams, the film is the third installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force
Play button The best films to watch at the cinema this week – and what to avoidThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersThis week’s must-see cinema includes Wild Rose, a country music drama starring ex-talent show contestant Jessie Buckley. Little is a baffling body-swap farce, and Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story tells the
Big: how Tom Hanks's body-swap comedy became a modern classicThe Telegraph - By Tom FordyTwo films out this week, Shazam and Little, draw inspiration from the 1988 comedy Big. Today it's seen as a classic – but at the time no one expected it to be a hit. Before Tom Hanks was a twinkly eyed
B-movie The green-screen queen: how Milla Jovovich built a billion-dollar B-movie empireThe Telegraph - By Adam WhiteOver the course of 15 years and six movies, an action horror franchise anchored entirely by actress Milla Jovovich has grossed over a billion dollars at the international box office. The video game adaptation
Film (UK) Mid90s review: Jonah Hill directs a pin-sharp coming-of-age taleThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Jonah Hill; Cast: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughlin, Gio Galicia. 15 cert, 85 mins. Is there a word to describe the opposite of nostalgia?
Film (UK) Little review: a baffling body-swap farce that dates even as you watch itThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Tina Gordon. Cast: Regina Hall, Marsai Martin, Issa Rae, Justin Hartley, Tone Bell, JD McCrary. 12A cert, 109 min Regina Hall, at the age of 48, has only just started being top-billed in films. She
Film (UK) Wild Rose review: Nashville meets Glasgow, and in Jessie Buckley a star is bornThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Tom Harper. Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, James Harkness, Ashley Shelton. 15 cert, 100 min Stars aren’t born like Jessie Buckley every day. If the foot-stomping
Film (UK) Hellboy review: an ugly, obnoxious and yowlingly witless rebootThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Neil Marshall; Starring: David Harbour, Ian McShane, Milla Jovovich, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim, Stephen Graham. 15 cert, 121 mins. “Stop! This isn’t you, Hellboy! You’re better than this!” bellows
Lion King The return of Simba: the first trailer for The Lion King is releasedThe Telegraph - By Biba KangThe full trailer for Disney’s Lion King remake has arrived, and we can already feel the love. Opening on an ominous note, the trailer shows Simba (voiced by Donald Glover) and Nala (Beyoncé) as cubs, trudging
Summer Lovin: the Grease prequel nobody asked for is comingThe Telegraph - By Biba KangSummer Lovin might have happened so fast, but its legacy appears to be endless. Paramount are now developing a prequel to Grease, based on the concept of the 1978 musical’s most iconic number. Towards
Film (UK) UK box office report, April 5-7: Shazam! muscles in on Dumbo, Laika misses the mark with Missing LinkThe Telegraph - By Charles GantDC's crowd-pleasing superhero gets off to a strong start and The Sisters Brothers gets another shot, writes Charles Gant in his weekly box office bulletin The winner: Shazam! The ever-burgeoning roster
Sam Elliot interview: "I could go on for days about how angry I am"The Telegraph - By Robbie CollinWith his three-quarter-centenary heaving over the horizon, Sam Elliott is in the mood to count his blessings. “I know that I’m fortunate to have two things,” the 74-year-old actor says on the phone from
Crime Drama Was LA Confidential the last great film noir?The Telegraph - By Simon HefferPeople can be very pretentious about the genre of film noir, not least in asserting that, to qualify, a film must be shot in black and white, and date from the age of uncertainty and upheaval that followed
Animation The Disney myth: how bad live-action films, not animation, saved Walt's empireThe Telegraph - By Jonathan HolmesYou’ve seen a house fly. You’ve seen a horse fly. And you have definitely seen an elephant fly before – although that hasn’t stopped Disney from remaking Dumbo with real actors. Yet cartoons and live have
Play buttonSales Scalpers selling Avengers: Endgame tickets for $25,000The Telegraph - By Biba KangTickets for the latest Avengers movie are being sold for thousands of dollars on eBay. According to the US ticketing company Fandango, Avengers: Endgame achieved more first-day pre-sales through their
Heroism The Keeper review: this treacly Bert Trautmann biopic almost hits the back of the netThe Telegraph - By Ed PowerDir: Marcus H. Rosenmüller Cast: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Michael Socha, 15 cert, 119 min. The story of Luftwaffe paratrooper turned legendary Manchester City goalkeeper Trautmann
Growing up with Frank Sidebottom: Chris Sievey's family on the man behind the maskThe Telegraph - By Clair WoodwardChris Sievey was a hugely talented musician and artist whose pop band The Freshies made terrific pop music but barely troubled the charts in the Eighties. His mind fizzed with non-stop creativity and,
