Charles Bramesco
The Guardian
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Recent articles by Charles:
The end has no end: why Hollywood should stop splitting movies into two
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is hampered by a greedy insistence on cutting franchise movies in half, a trend that shows no sign of going away → Read More
From The Shining to Carrie: our writers pick their favourite Stephen King movies
With the writer’s latest big screen adaptation The Boogeyman opening in theatres, we select the best interpretations of his work → Read More
From Bond to Heroes: what was affected by the 2007 writers’ strike?
As WGA members put their pens down again, a look back on the last industry-shifting strike → Read More
Bupkis review – Pete Davidson plays Pete Davidson in messy series
The ex-SNL comedian recruits Edie Falco and Joe Pesci for a scrappy new comedy show that mixes raw honesty with rambling inconsistency → Read More
‘A budget is a moral document’: why does the NYPD need $29m a day?
The Museum of Broken Windows aims to explore what New York City could be like if funds were diverted from the police → Read More
Mrs Davis review – fun yet frustrating series mixes religion with raucousness
Betty Gilpin plays a nun on a mission to locate the Holy Grail in a patchy genre-hopping new show about an all-consuming Alexa-adjacent superpower → Read More
Director Kelly Reichardt: ‘Keep in mind, I don’t have my finger on any pulse’
The film-maker behind First Cow discusses her new Michelle Williams-starring drama Showing Up and the difficulties of making art in this climate → Read More
Lance Reddick: The Wire’s crusading cop led with command and conviction
The late actor has left behind a career of distinguished and often devastating roles, headed up by his no-nonsense lieutenant in the HBO drama → Read More
Tod Browning: the film-maker who brought the carnival to Hollywood
A new retrospective offers another chance to appreciate the daring and often deranged films made by a director who was once the centre of a moral panic → Read More
It's time for action in the explosive first trailer for How to Blow Up a Pipeline
A cross-cultural coalition plots to disrupt an oil supply chain in Daniel Goldhaber's galvanizing new film. → Read More
‘We’re not taking care of it’: why film preservation should be prioritized
A new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch → Read More
Eli Roth will expand the spoof trailer Thanksgiving into a full-length feature
It's the third mock teaser from the genre homage Grindhouse to become a full-fledged film. → Read More
Oh, bother: the Winnie the Pooh slasher movie is a bloody mess
With rights now in the public domain, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey turns beloved children’s characters into killers → Read More
The Pessimism Of ‘Party Down’ Season 3 Plays Particularly Well In These ‘Ted Lasso’ Times
Party Down Season 3 is coming to Starz on February 24, 2023. At a time when kindness and sincerity have taken hold of the sitcom standard-bearers, the sober pessimism of Party Down —in which work sucks, life sucks, most people suck, but none of it sucks quite so bad as the total, numbing nothingness of apathy — returns as a bold tonic. → Read More
Paul King has signed on to direct the Tom Holland-starring Fred Astaire biopic
At long last, the promise of the "Umbrella" lip-sync video shall be delivered upon. → Read More
The Spirited Away stage play is coming to American cinemas
This spring, audiences unable to attend the Japanese production will behold the live-action magnificence of the radish spirit. → Read More
Netflix will make inroads into French film by partnering with Cinémathèque Française
France has been resistant to the streaming barbarians at the gates, but that may be starting to change. → Read More
It’s a MILF’s World. We’re Just Living in It.
From "MILF Manor" to "80 for Brady," randy older women are having a moment in pop culture. But is it empowering, or have we simply traded one fantasy for another? → Read More
Jake Gyllenhaal takes on the Taliban in the first trailer for The Covenant
In Guy Ritchie's new thriller, a soldier must fight his way through Afghanistan to rescue the interpreter who saved his life. → Read More
80 for Brady review – screen queens go wild in charming but slight comedy
Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and Lily Tomlin make for soothing company in a silly but good-natured film about NFL fans → Read More