In praise of Wonka
Its director Paul King should be added to the list of sacred-cow directors who can do no wrong
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Its director Paul King should be added to the list of sacred-cow directors who can do no wrong
Celebrating the Stones icon
Barbie , Oppenheimer and Succession dominate
If it carries on like this, she’ll be the Person of the Decade — and who knows what after that
We could be looking at the worst-received finale to a major television show since Game of Thrones
It’s the story of a mid-Seventies rock band coming to terms with success
It’s yet another example of focus-grouped, play-it-safe un-adventurousness by the House of Mouse
There is a refreshing new emphasis in his films on black comedy and absurdism
The newest episodes deal with the final weeks of Princess Diana and the aftermath of her death
In the year 2023, improbably as always, the musical proved a success
The director’s continuing ability to challenge, provoke and entertain is a marvel
‘Even when the story is dark, Superman still stands for something — and we need more good guys like that’
An interview with the director David Anspaugh as his new cut is released
As ever with David Fincher, formalism is very much to the fore
It is now inevitable that there will be a log-jam in post-production facilities
Like her poems, the move makes little sense
The MCU’s Midas touch appears to be dimming
If you thought the rivalry between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles died in 1970, you were wrong
If his legacy ends up being that of ‘tragic Friends actor dies young,’ that is an enormous shame
The movie is a hallucinatory masterpiece
Gavin Casalegno of The Summer I Turned Pretty fame is in hot water
It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
As Scorsese’s movie prepares to hit cinemas, Tulsa hangs on to its originalist oil history
The Eras Tour ’s success may indicate a path back to profitability for movie theaters, if not movies themselves