Netflix’s latest specials show two once-funny comedians continuing to punch down in a desperate quest for relevanceThe funniest part of Dave Chappelle’s new special The Dreamer comes right at the top, and not on purpose.In high-grain black-and-white, w...
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From deadly climate catastrophe to geopolitical chaos, Hollywood has predicted a nightmare year ahead“Twenty-twenty-four” sounds like a stutter and looks like a typo, but more so than most segments of the sprawling expanse condensed into what we unders...
The director’s attempt to replicate Star Wars for smartphones is an ****, unforgivably dull and self-serious messZack Snyder pitched Rebel Moon as a marriage of Seven Samurai and Star Wars, which is a bit like trying to sell your new invention as the w...
The death of the groundbreaking writer and producer leaves behind a string of incisive and progressive sitcoms as well as a profoundly altered TV landscapeNorman Lear, celebrated US TV writer and producer, dies aged 101The canon of English letters has ...
The legendary 77-year-old action director is making his first US movie for 20 years, the almost totally dialogue-free Silent NightThe hallmarks of John Woo’s style are as well-known as the film-maker’s own name: tough customers with blacked-out sunglas...
Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and LIl Rel Howery try, and fail, to bring life to a shoddily assembled family movie incapable of delivering baseline cheerFor a child on Christmas morning, there’s no disappointment greater than ripping the paper off a present...
Christopher Nolan’s three-hour historical drama just sped past the $900m mark, becoming the biggest biopic ever, but how did he do it?To bet against Christopher Nolan is to bet against the house – which is to lose like a fool – and yet he still came in...
Christos Nikou’s English-language debut aims to be a sadistically comical treatment of relationship insecurity, but ends up saying littleWithin the first few minutes of Christos Nikou’s sci-fi-inflected satire Fingernails, in which a medical test has b...
The Oscar-winner returns for more carnage in a rote, violent sequel, this time saving an idyllic Italian seaside town from baddiesIf an actor’s career can be said to obey the same laws that govern physics, then Denzel Washington’s turn in the third big...
In a new Amazon docuseries, executive-produced by Brad Pitt, the late music legend tells his story of triumph and tragedyDorsay Alavi met the saxophone virtuoso and composer Wayne Shorter in 1995, when she was hired by Verve Records to direct a video i...