The TelegraphMovies 25 years of mayhem, murder, and movies: the bloody saga of Natural Born KillersThe Telegraph - By Chris BellBrawling stars; rioting extras; a furious Tarantino. The making of Oliver Stone's psychotic satire was almost as crazy as the film itself. And then the real trouble began... It is March 1993, and at the
The TelegraphDreamworks Shaun the Sheep 2: behind the scenes of Aardman's latest adventureThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinIt is hard to imagine that many problems are encountered in the softly humming corridors of Pixar or DreamWorks that can be solved with a splash of glittery nail polish. But in the workshop at Aardman
The TelegraphPolitical Correctness My Learned Friend may be politically incorrect, but it's a comic classicThe Telegraph - By Simon HefferWill Hay’s act as a disreputable schoolmaster on the wilder shores of charlatanry, beloved by music-hall and wireless audiences, was brilliantly exploited when talking pictures arrived in Britain in the
The TelegraphMartin Scorsese The Irishman review: Robert De Niro is sensational in Scorsese's history-making mob masterpieceThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Martin Scorsese; Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin. 15 cert; 209 mins Imagine Martin Scorsese had made The Irishman with young actors who aged on screen in
The TelegraphFilm (UK) A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, review: a touching portrait of a quiet icon of children’s TVThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Marielle Heller. Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Cooper. Cert tbc, 107 mins To an apparently large number of Americans, the late children’s television presenter Fred Rogers
The TelegraphBreaking Bad Jackie Brown and Breaking Bad actor Robert Forster dies aged 78The Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersRobert Forster, the American actor, has died at the age of 78. Forster was best-known for his role as the bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 film Jackie Brown, for which he earned an
The TelegraphFilm (UK) Rocks review: a wildly charming celebration of teen potentialThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Sarah Gavron. Starring: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’angelou Sei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Ruby Stokes, Tawheda Begum, Afi Okaidja. 12A cert, 93 mins From the East End rooftop where Shola Bakray)
The TelegraphFBI The Day Shall Come: the ludicrous real FBI plot that inspired the filmThe Telegraph - By Ed PowerThey would ride in on the wings of a storm and bring America to its knees. Outside, the skies over Miami were an aching blue and the pavements oppressively hot. But in the tumbledown house that served
The TelegraphJoaquin Phoenix 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 Abominable, a new DreamWorks film about a Yeti who’s trying to get back to his home in the heights of the Himalayas. American Woman sees Sienna Miller play a downbeat young
The TelegraphFilm (UK) Uncut Gems review: "The tensest film I've ever seen"The Telegraph - By Robbie CollinCert tbc, 135 min. Dirs: Josh and Benny Safdie. Starring: Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, LaKeith Stanfield, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Eric Bogosian Martin Scorsese may have recently likened superhero blockbusters
The TelegraphKeira Knightley Official Secrets review: Iraq-war whistleblower tale that's more dossier than dramaThe Telegraph - By Tim Robey15 cert, 112 min. Dir: Gavin Hood. Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Indira Varma, Conleth Hill, Adam Bakri, Hattie Morahan, Monica Dolan, Tamsin Greig The
The TelegraphMatt Damon Le Mans '66 review: Matt Damon and Christian Bale's Ford vs Ferrari film will be catnip for petrolheadsThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyCert TBC, 152 min. Dir: James Mangold. Starring: Cast: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Remo Girone, Ray McKinnon. Le Mans ’66 – to be released
The TelegraphSienna Miller American Woman review: Sienna Miller completely steals the show in this bleak domestic dramaThe Telegraph - By Tim Robey15 cert, 109 min. Dir: Jake Scott. Staring: Sienna Miller, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul, Amy Madigan, Will Sasso, Sky Ferreira Sienna Miller as a 32-year-old grandma? Tot up two consecutive teenage
The TelegraphChloe Bennet Abominable review: The Yeti may look cuddly, but children expect more than fluffThe Telegraph - By Ed PowerDir: Jill Culton. Cast: Chloe Bennet, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Albert Tsai, Tsai Chin, Michelle Wong. Cert: U, 97 minutes Tinsel Town’s charm offensive on China takes a turn
The TelegraphSatire The Day Shall Come: Marchánt Davis gives a star-making performance in Chris Morris's half-baked satireThe Telegraph - By Tim Robey15 cert, 88 min. Dir: Chris Morris. Starring: Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Denis O’Hare, Jim Gaffigan, Kayvan Novak, Miles Robbins, Danielle Brooks Since Four Lions, his nail bomb of a 2009 film debut,
The TelegraphSteve Coogan Greed, review: Steve Coogan's satire of the filthy rich is torn between lecturing and sniggeringThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Dinita Gohil, Tim Key, Shirley Henderson, Sophie Cookson, Shanina Sheik, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Asim Chaudri. Cert:
The TelegraphJon Bernthal Jon Bernthal interview: 'Masculinity has been bastardised – it has nothing to do with violence'The Telegraph - By Tom FordyThe Punisher, The Wolf of Wall Street, the new Sopranos prequel… Jon Bernthal is now one of Hollywood's great screen bruisers. He talks broken bones and ballet with Tom Fordy As an on-screen tough guy,
The TelegraphGemini Man Gemini Man review: Will Smith can’t save this tedious thriller from his deepfake younger selfThe Telegraph - By Ed PowerDir: Ang Lee. Cast: Will Smith, Clive Owen, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge, Theodora Miranne, Linda Emond, Ralph Brown. 12A cert, 117 mins Hollywood has always been obsessed with
The TelegraphFilm (UK) Knives Out review: Daniel Craig has a blast in a murderously fun, whodunit worthy of Agatha ChristieThe Telegraph - By Tim RobeyDir: Rian Johnson. Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden 12A
The TelegraphVigilantism The 'hero' who'd had enough: how subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz inspired JokerThe Telegraph - By Alex GodfreyHalf an hour into Todd Phillips’s Joker, Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, a downtrodden, unstable part-time clown in 1980s New York, fatally shoots three aggressors on a subway train. Fleck, who has already
The TelegraphDC Entertainment UK box office report, October 4–6: Joker laughs all the way to the bankThe Telegraph - By Charles GantJoker has ridden its tricky publicity all the way to profit, writes Charles Gant in his weekly box office bulletin For years, Warner Bros has had plenty of cause to envy Disney’s Marvel operation, which
The TelegraphEddie Redmayne The Aeronauts review: Eddie Redmayne's Victorian balloonist biopic is just so much hot airThe Telegraph - By Helen O'HaraDir: Tom Harper. Starring: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Anne Reid, Tim McInnerny, Phoebe Fox. PG cert, 100 min Hot air balloons are magical things, fragile-looking bubbles that defy with
The TelegraphFilm (UK) Color Out of Space review: Nicolas Cage's alpaca-farming sci-fi horror is subtler than you might expectThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinIn his latest film, Nicolas Cage shares a considerable amount of screen time with alpacas. This peculiar beast has always exuded a kind of absurdist magnetism on camera: it’s there in the eyes’ plaintive
The TelegraphHollywood Cinema From Boyhood to Joker: why does Hollywood keep giving Gary Glitter money?The Telegraph - By Tristram Fane SaundersWhile there have been plenty of glowing reviews for Joker, the Batman prequel has clearly put people on edge: the film has been accused of encouraging the violent incel subculture and attracted warnings
The TelegraphScreenwriting The sexploitation 'masterpiece' that killed a career: is Showgirls worth defending?The Telegraph - By Luciana BelliniTake two of Hollywood’s biggest names - an avant garde director fresh from several blockbuster hits, and a screenwriter at the top of his game - add an enormous budget, one teen star desperate to make
The TelegraphSpoilers Joker review, with spoilers: does Arthur Fleck get the ending he deserves?The Telegraph - By Robbie CollinWarning: the following review is for anyone who has already seen Joker, or who doesn't mind reading spoilers.Click here for Robbie Collin's spoiler-free review Dir: Todd Phillips; Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,
The TelegraphFilm (UK) Blackbird, review: this may be the most beautifully complete film you'll see all yearThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Roger Michell; Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska, Lindsay Duncan, Rainn Wilson, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Anson Boon. Cert TBC, 97 mins. Even by the standards of family gatherings,
The TelegraphJojo Rabbit Jojo Rabbit, review: this feeble, one-note Nazi comedy fails to land a single meaningful blowThe Telegraph - By Robbie CollinDir: Taika Waititi; Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Alfie Allen, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant. 12A cert, 108 mins. Taika Waititi’s Rabbit
The TelegraphSienna Miller Sienna Miller interview: I called Harvey Weinstein 'pops'The Telegraph - By Chris HarveyAs Sienna Miller stars as the mother of a missing girl, she tells Chris Harvey how she seized control of her career “If you started to restrict me to playing English women who went to boarding school eight,
