
Christmas movies: The best and worst of the festive season
The Christmas season has arrived, and a variety of local family traditions will soon play out, like fathers inflicting massive head trauma...

From prestige dramas to direct-to-streaming films: Coronavirus will change entertainment
Is lockdown ending? To borrow from Churchill, this probably is not the beginning of the end for social distancing, but perhaps it...

Best film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays: From Macbeth to Romeo and Juliet
It has been reported that Joel Coen’s next project will be an adaptation of Macbeth starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. One...

Uplifting films: The flicks to reinstall a positive attitude
March has been an extraordinary month on a number of unwelcome levels. But one detail that astonishes me as people take to...

Mullets, murder and maulings: The wild ride that is Tiger King
Some of the scariest subcultures in the US involve gun ownership, country music and ridiculously elaborate mullets. Needless to say, enthusiasts of...

Rock stars on film: These are the best and worst singers-turned-actors
Lost amid last month’s big film stories involving the Oscars and Harvey Weinstein was the forthcoming release of a film starring none...

Why The Irishman failed to win love at the Oscars or anywhere
I loved The Irishman. There, I said it. For me, the majestic mob saga stood at the top tier of Martin Scorsese’s...

The Oscars’ best and worst best pictures of all time
Hollywood’s holy grail is winning best picture at the Oscars but that famous title doesn’t guarantee any film will be considered an...

Character vs art: When bad people make great movies
News that Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy topped the nominations for France’s Cesar Awards brought with it the uncomfortable memory...

Woke cinema: Classic films that couldn’t be made today
Joker director Todd Phillips proclaimed last year that he quit comedy because ‘woke culture’ had ruined it. Given Joker just received 11...