Movies

The weird and the wonderful frolic hand in hand in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deranged coming-of-age fairy tale. Torn from the pages of Alasdair Gray’s novel, Poor Things reunites the director of Oscar-winning period comedy The Favourite with screenwriter Tony McNamara and actress Emma Stone for a fantastical, feminist reimagining of Frankenstein. …

Elvis Presley stars in trailer for 1956 film Love Me Tender Elvis Presley is enjoying another spectacular surge in popularity following Baz Luhrman’s biopic and now the new Sophia Coppola film, Priscilla, based on his wife’s autobiography Elvis and Me. Fans aren’t just desperate for the music and tangled personal …

The Long, Hot Summer: Paul Newman stars in trailer Looking back nostalgically, we see movie legends Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as a wonderful example of 50 years of cosy love and marriage (and remarkable philanthropy). But there’s a reason he was a major sex symbol far spicier than his …

Polly’s best tip for dancing like the King? “’Imagine you’ve got a mosquito on the back of your knee…” Speaking to Sky News, she said: “I think it’s a massive task because people have such an affiliation for Elvis. “People know him, people know the performances, so it didn’t slide …

The Critics Choice Awards will be honouring the year’s best films and shows as well as the sensational casts and crews behind them, with Barbie earning a nomination in nearly every category with 18 nods. Following the Golden Globes and just one month ahead of the Academy Awards, all eyes …

What goes up must come down. Sadly, F Gary Gray’s high-altitude action thriller hits dramatic turbulence and goes into a tailspin during a preposterous opening sequence set in Venice, which establishes the light-fingered credentials of criminal Cyrus Whitaker (Kevin Hart) and his five-strong crew, who profess to “rescue works of …

Sonya Turova’s documentary follows the life and death of Anya Stonelake, a Russian curator and gallerist who brought post-Soviet contemporary art and photography to London. Anya died in September 2022. She was 48. Sonya said: “I didn’t want it to be completely about her death, I tried to focus as …

THE BEEKEEPER (out now on Netflix) – 2 stars. The buzz emanating from David Ayer’s brutal revenge thriller starring Jason Statham as a retired assassin who tends beehives in the rolling green hills of Springfield, Massachusetts, is merely ho-hum. The rickety plot is set in motion by a malware pop-up …

Announced last year, Michael Jackson is getting the movie biopic treatment after the likes of Freddie Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Elton John’s Rocketman and Elvis Presley’s Elvis stormed the box office. Production on the film, which is simply titled “Michael”, is set to begin on January 22 with the late King …

After 36 years, Tom Cruise finally returned as Captain Peter Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick. The critically acclaimed sequel garnered over $1.4 billion at the global box office, so it’s hardly surprising that a third film is now in the works. Although Cruise made a joint-development deal with Warner Bros …