Phil de Semlyen
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The seven stand out moments from the 2023 Academy Awards
The teariest speech, the best joke and the most painful interview → Read More
New Yorkers! HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ spin-off needs you
Get paid to co-star with Sarah Jessica Parker in ‘And Just Like That…’ → Read More
New Yorkers! ‘Succession’ needs you to appear in season 4
The Roy family needs you... to stand near them looking good → Read More
‘The Holiday 2’ is officially happening – 16 years after the first movie
Update: Sadly, the rumours of a sequel to The Holiday have subsequently been debunked by Nancy Meyers on Instagram and Kate Winslet. ‘I read something about that, but it’s the first I've heard of it,’ Winslet said at the world premiere of Avatar: The Way of Water. ‘I promise you not an agent or a representative or anyone from the first one around has had any conversation with me about that. Hand… → Read More
Strange World review: Disney’s ode to classic sci-fi is an out-there delight
Does it always make sense? No. Do we still love it? Oh yes → Read More
Halloween Ends: Michael Myers slashes his last in a decent final outing
The slasher franchise breathes its last in a refreshingly not-terrible final farewell → Read More
Netflix doesn’t want you to binge watch its shows anymore
Watching ‘The Crown’ may be about to become a ten-week journey → Read More
‘Succession’ needs you on set for season 4
The HBO smash hit is looking for extras for season 4 → Read More
Minions 2 review: a fun but fleeting helium high
‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ is short on plot and long on Looney Tunes silliness → Read More
Netflix is adding ads to its platform – here’s what it means for your next night in
It’s no secret that 2022 has been a tricky year for Netflix. Subscribers have dropped and the company’s share price with them. One of the streamers’ plans to turn things around has just been confirmed: Netflix will launch a new tier to its platform – with ads on it. ‘We’re adding an ad tier for folks who say, “Hey, I want a lower price and I’ll watch ads,”’ co-CEO Ted Sarandos told the Cannes… → Read More
Blonde: Everything you need to know about Netflix’s new ‘adults-only’ Marilyn Monroe movie
‘No Time to Die’ star Ana de Armas is going from Bond to platinum blonde → Read More
Jurassic World Dominion review: an extinction-level turkey
Even franchise OGs Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum can’t save this dino-saster → Read More
Review: Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ is an OTT showstopper
Austin Butler is astonishing as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll → Read More
Cannes review: ‘Holy Spider’ gives Iran its ‘Silence of the Lambs’
‘Border’ director Ali Abbasi takes aim at the patriarchy with a suffocating serial killer procedural → Read More
Cannes review: Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’ is a queasy fever dream
David Cronenberg returns with a oddly mild-mannered glandular fever dream set in a dystopian future → Read More
Cannes review: Ethan Coen fires up the jukebox for ‘Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind’
A celebratory rock doc that shakes its hips but doesn’t ask many probing questions → Read More
Cannes review: the slowburn ‘R.M.N.’ unpeels the xenophobia buried within modern Europe
Romanian new wave veteran Cristian Mungiu unpeels the xenophobia buried within modern Europe → Read More
Cannes review: ‘Triangle of Sadness’ is a wildly funny satire on the super-rich
After skewering male ego in Force Majeure and lampooning the art world with The Square, writer-director Ruben Östlund takes the handbrake off altogether with a takedown of the super-rich aboard a superyacht that plays like Buñuel by way of the Farrelly brothers. A film that really goes there – the second half is positively spattered in bodily fluids – it’s hardly subtle, but it’s a wild ride and… → Read More
Cannes review: Idris Elba shines in awkward fantasy ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’
Despite an all-in Elba and Tilda Swinton, George Miller’s romantic fantasia fails to spark → Read More
The Bob’s Burgers Movie: hit TV animation makes for a gleefully silly noir
This noirish movie-length riff on the hit TV animation is a big old happy meal → Read More