Angus Reid’s new documentary “A week in the Sun” shines light on Cuba’s sweeping new rights for women and queer people
“The Bride!” is a feminist fraud
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” has been lauded as a feminist triumph. That’s not what it looked like to me
The Odyssey we deserve
Christopher Nolan delivers a frighteningly relevant epic on a civilisation ripping itself apart
Do you accept this mission?
“Project Hail Mary” is sci-fi storytelling
at its best: solid science, an everyman
hero, and a funny little alien
An astronomer’s take on “Fly Me to the Moon”
Review: The movie offers a twist on the story of Apollo 11 – but stays true to the science
Filming Kurt Vonnegut, the “Christ-loving atheist”
“When a person dies,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his 1969 masterwork Slaughterhouse-Five, “he only appears to die. He is very much alive in the past, present, and future, always has existed, always will exist.” Billy Pilgrim, the novel’s hero, learns this lesson on the planet Tralfamadore: “When a Tralfamadoran sees a corpse, all he thinks […]
Abandonment issues
Maggie Gyllenhaal strikes gold with a film adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s “The Lost Daughter”.
Why does every Hollywood baddie need a redemption story?
Cruella de Vil has pride of place in the rogue’s gallery of iconic villains, but a new film transforms her into a good-hearted hero.
Pi in the sky
The narrator of Ang Lee’s sumptuous film Life of Pi promises that his story will make you believe in God. Does it? asks Brian McClinton