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And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year
Now the Guardian's Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic's personal choices, in no particular order• [...]
Wed, Dec 25, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
UK box office forecast to top £1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall
Research firm Omdia says dip to £931m due to Hollywood strikes but wave of blockbusters likely to renew recoveryThe UK box office is forecast to surpass £1bn next year for [...]
Wed, Dec 25, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Better Man review – Robbie Williams becomes CGI chimp in surreal biopic
A candid look at the toxic force of envy that drove his musical career but turned a talented musician into a deeply unhappy man. But why the CGI?Robbie Williams – [...]
Wed, Dec 25, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
The Order review – Jude Law does solid work in vehement account of white supremacists’ takedown
Nicholas Hoult plays a wannabe far-right martyr, and Law and Tye Sheridan the feds on his tail, in a well-cast if anticlimactic true-crime taleJustin Kurzel directs a workmanlike true-crime thriller [...]
Wed, Dec 25, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
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Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87
Bond worked on avant garde films with Jane Arden in the 1960s and 70s and went on to work with 80s pop stars from Neil Tennant to Adam AntJack Bond, [...]
Tue, Dec 24, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Shyam Benegal, influential director of India’s ‘parallel cinema’, dies aged 90
The film-maker challenged mainstream Bollywood and pioneered a new wave cinema movement in the 1970s that tackled social issuesShyam Benegal, a renowned Indian film-maker known for pioneering a new wave [...]
Tue, Dec 24, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Twisters! Tennis! Transformations! The best movie moments of 2024
From edge-of-seat chases to sexy role-playing, Guardian writers pick their most memorable scenes from films released in the US this yearSpoilers aheadAmy Adams's canine transformation in Marielle Heller's Nightbitch should [...]
Tue, Dec 24, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey
The Oppenheimer director's adaptation of Homer is scheduled for release in the summer of 2026, and will feature Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and ZendayaChristopher Nolan's follow-up to Oppenheimer [...]
Tue, Dec 24, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Alec Baldwin film set shooting case ends after prosecutors drop appeal
New Mexico prosecutors are no longer pursuing involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor over death of a cinematographer during making of Rust in 2021New Mexico prosecutors will not pursue an [...]
Tue, Dec 24, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale
The premise – a young man cosies up to his grandmother for the sake of her will – sounds cynical, but this is actually a tear-jerker with an important pointThe [...]
Tue, Dec 24, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com