#periodandhistoricalfilms — Public Fediverse posts

‘I struggle to see myself as someone special’ Sandra Hüller on being the star of four - or, possibly, five - of the year’s biggest films
By Danny Leigh

New film Fatherland took Sandra Hüller back to a divided Germany. She talks about damaged dreams, Hollywood feelgood and - just maybe - appearing in the new Marvel movie

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/23/sandra-huller-new-film-fatherland

#Film #Culture #Germany #Periodandhistoricalfilms #ThomasMann #Books #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DannyLeigh

7 Miles Out review – Carol Morley’s funny-poignant self-portrait of teenage kicks in Stockport
By Peter Bradshaw

A daring, rich and funny study of the ordeal of having to invent and reinvent your own teenage sense of self amid confounding changes

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/17/7-miles-out-review-carol-morley

#Film #Dramafilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Manchester #JoyDivision #TonyWilson #Londonfilmfestival #Culture #Festivals #GreaterManchester #Music #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/the-face-of-horror-review-anna-biller-london-film-festival #Film #HorrorFilms #FilmAdaptations #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Books #Culture

The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror
By Peter Bradshaw

London film festivalAnna Biller’s intricate tribute to the British 1960s genre plays melodrama for laughs and pulls it off wonderfully in a medieval tale based on a Japanese ghost story

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/the-face-of-horror-review-anna-biller-london-film-festival

#Film #Horrorfilms #Filmadaptations #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville magnificently on edge in intriguing cold war thriller
By Peter Bradshaw

Manville’s academic psychologist finds herself trapped in a tower block wasteland in 1980s Warsaw. Bizarre and surreal details add to the sinister vibe

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/14/winter-of-the-crow-review-lesley-manville-cold-war-thriller

#Film #Dramafilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Thrillers #Poland #OlgaTokarczuk #LesleyManville #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Mort la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
By Stuart Jeffries

Paul Greengrass’s Peasants’ Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nation

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/cinema-films-failed-british-revolutions-paul-greengrass-the-uprising

#Film #PaulGreengrass #Culture #Biopics #Dramafilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Politics #TheGuardian #StuartJeffries

Tenzing review – reconstruction of first summit of Everest puts Sherpa at the centre of the story https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/tenzing-review-genden-phuntsok-tom-hiddleston-apple-willem-dafoe-v #Film #DramaFilms #Biopics #Mountaineering #MountEverest #Nepal #Culture #SouthAndCentralAsia #WorldNews #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms

Tenzing review – reconstruction of first summit of Everest puts Sherpa at the centre of the story
By Peter Bradshaw

Genden Phuntsok brings charm and innocence to his portrayal of Tenzing Norgay, while Tom Hiddleston is suitably frank as Edmund Hillary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/tenzing-review-genden-phuntsok-tom-hiddleston-apple-willem-dafoe-v

#Film #Dramafilms #Biopics #Mountaineering #MountEverest #Nepal #Culture #SouthandcentralAsia #Worldnews #Periodandhistoricalfilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

The Uprising review – Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth
By Peter Bradshaw

Andrew Garfield’s fictional ploughman joins the historical heroes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in a dirt-caked, docudrama-style film with disconcertingly silly moments

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/07/the-uprising-review-paul-greengrass-andrew-garfield-peasants-revolt

#Film #Periodandhistoricalfilms #PaulGreengrass #AndrewGarfield #CosmoJarvis #JamieBell #TomHollander #Culture #Televisionradio #Dramafilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

24 Hour Party People review – daring metatextual paean to the Manchester music scene
By Peter Bradshaw

Rereleased for its 24th anniversary, Michael Winterbottom’s freewheeling film about a journalist who championed post-punk bands couldn’t have starred anyone but Steve Coogan

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/07/24-hour-party-people-review-michael-winterbottom-steve-coogan

#Film #MichaelWinterbottom #SteveCoogan #TonyWilson #JoyDivision #HappyMondays #NewOrder #Manchester #Periodandhistoricalfilms #PeterKay #ShirleyHenderson #SimonPegg #Culture #GreaterManchester #Music #UKnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Hamlet’s goodbye, the last of Leigh, Birmingham blues and a vampire in Vienna: 12 great films at the London film festival
By Peter Bradshaw

Our critic picks out some of the most outstanding cinema screening at the UK’s most prestigious film event in 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/06/london-film-festival-mike-leigh-elsinore-andew-scott-2026

#Londonfilmfestival #Film #Culture #Festivals #AndrewScott #PawePawlikowski #ClioBarnard #AndrewHaigh #IsabelleHuppert #BootsRiley #LaSeydoux #JesseEisenberg #JulianneMoore #MikeLeigh #Dramafilms #Biopics #Periodandhistoricalfilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/05/sean-connery-ron-perlman-the-name-of-the-rose #Film #Culture #SeanConnery #ChristianSlater #RonPerlman #JeanjacquesAnnaud #UmbertoEco #Books #FilmAdaptations #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #DramaFilms

‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose
By Interviews by Chris Broughton

‘When I couldn’t do the spitting scene, Sean took me aside and said: “Ron, if you don’t actually spit in my face, we’ll be here all day.” So I let one fly – and kept having to redo it’

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/05/sean-connery-ron-perlman-the-name-of-the-rose

#Film #Culture #SeanConnery #ChristianSlater #RonPerlman #JeanJacquesAnnaud #UmbertoEco #Books #Filmadaptations #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Dramafilms #TheGuardian #InterviewsbyChrisBroughton

A Statement review – outstanding climate change dramedy about a 1980 meeting https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/03/a-statement-film-review #NewYorkFilmFestival2026 #Film #PaulGiamatti #PaulRudd #JohnTurturro #TomMccarthy #Culture #DramaFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #ClimateCrisis

The Yellow Tie review – John Malkovich gives major hauteur as legendary record-hating maestro
By Peter Bradshaw

This biopic of Sergiu Celibidache, the renowned Romanian conductor who refused all recordings, is a sturdy labour of love directed by his son

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/05/the-yellow-tie-review-sergiu-celibidache-biopic-conductor-live-music

#Film #Biopics #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Romania #Classicalmusic #JohnMalkovich #SeanBean #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

A Statement review – outstanding climate change dramedy about a 1980 meeting
By Adrian Horton

New York film festival: Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany lead an excellent ensemble in this dramatization of a failed conference on climate change

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/03/a-statement-film-review

#NewYorkfilmfestival2026 #Film #PaulGiamatti #PaulRudd #JohnTurturro #TomMcCarthy #Culture #Dramafilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Climatecrisis #TheGuardian #AdrianHorton

Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom
By Peter Bradshaw

With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/21/sense-and-sensibility-review-romcom-austen-daisy-edgar-jones

#Film #Filmadaptations #JaneAusten #Romancefilms #Dramafilms #DaisyEdgarJones #GeorgeMacKay #FionaShaw #Books #Culture #Stage #Periodandhistoricalfilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/21/sense-and-sensibility-review-romcom-austen-daisy-edgar-jones #Film #FilmAdaptations #JaneAusten #RomanceFilms #DramaFilms #DaisyEdgarjones #GeorgeMackay #FionaShaw #Books #Culture #Stage #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms

De Gaulle: Liberté review – biopic of conquering French war hero reaches his imperial era
By Peter Bradshaw

A shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian leads this blockbuster account of the wartime leader’s career as he ascends to political dominance

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/17/de-gaulle-liberte-review-biopic-of-conquering-french-war-hero-reaches-his-imperial-era

#Film #Biopics #Periodandhistoricalfilms #CharlesdeGaulle #Secondworldwar #France #SimonRussellBeale #Culture #Europe #Stage #Worldnews #Warfilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Legend of Destruction review –starry voices grace animated telling of theJewish revolt against the Romans
By Leslie Felperin

Eight years in the making, the innovative film uses painted still images – it’s like being read a graphic novel by a cast including Oscar Isaac, Evangeline Lilly and Elliott Gould

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/15/legend-of-destruction-review-starry-voices-grace-animated-telling-of-thejewish-revolt-against-the-romans

#Film #Animationinfilm #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Israel #Culture #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Worldnews #OscarIsaac #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

Pressure review – stormy weather in tense D-day forecast retelling
By Peter Bradshaw

Andrew Scott finds levels of complexity in a stoic character based on meteorologist James Stagg, the man who persuaded Eisenhower to delay Operation Overlord, for this slick wartime drama

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/pressure-review-stormy-weather-in-tense-d-day-forecast-retelling

#Film #Dramafilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Secondworldwar #AndrewScott #BrendanFraser #Meteorology #Culture #Science #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/07/imperium-review-sergei-loznitsas-archive-collage-pieces-together-normal-life-in-cold-war-soviet-union

#Film #Documentaryfilms #Russia #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Venicefilmfestival #Culture #Europe #Festivals #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches
By Peter Bradshaw

Venice film festivalA nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/06/woman-unknown-review-kvinde-ukendt-may-el-toukhy

#Film #Dramafilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Secondworldwar #Denmark #Culture #Venicefilmfestival #Thrillers #Festivals #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

A Rimbaud review – legendary poet’s unlikely transformation into entrepreneur is as odd as ever
By Peter Bradshaw

Australian actor Blake Draper delivers a committed one-man performance tracking the writer as he morphs from enfant terrible to merchant

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/17/a-rimbaud-review

#Film #Dramafilms #Poetry #Paris #Books #Culture #France #Periodandhistoricalfilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Snapshot review – fun found-footage scarer follows amateur Ripper hunters in the 1880s
By Peter Bradshaw

Edinburgh film festivalA women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rage

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/15/snapshot-review-fun-found-footage-scarer-follows-amateur-ripper-hunters-in-the-1880s

#Film #Edinburghfilmfestival #Thrillers #Horrorfilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Crimefilms #JacktheRipper #Culture #Festivals #UKnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: exposing the lies and fantasies of the SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’
By Geoffrey Macnab

Felix Kersten, the personal therapist of Hitler’s principal enforcer, claimed to have saved countless lives from the Holocaust. A new feature film exposes him as a narcissist prone to myth-making

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/05/himmlers-anti-nazi-masseur-exposing-the-lies-and-fantasies-of-the-ss-chiefs-magic-buddha

#Film #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Culture #Secondworldwar #Nazism #TheGuardian #GeoffreyMacnab

Wannabe despot, dashing diplomat or boring back-office swot? Greece’s founding father divides opinion https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/life-of-greece-first-governor-kapodistrias-biopic #Biopics #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Film #Greece #Europe #Culture

Savage House review – Claire Foy and Richard E Grant sell it hard in bewigged 18th-century caper https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/04/savage-house-review-claire-foy-richard-e-grant #Film #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #ComedyFilms #DramaFilms #ClaireFoy #RichardEGrant #Comedy #Culture

Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/14/fatherland-review-sandra-huller-thomas-mann-pawel-pawlikowski-cannes-film-festivali #CannesFilmFestival #Film #DramaFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #ThomasMann #PawePawlikowski #Germany #Books #Culture #Europe #Festivals #WorldNews

The Electric Kiss review – belle époque seance comedy struggles to summon real magic https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/12/the-electric-kiss-review-cannes-film-festival-pierre-salvadori #Film #CannesFilmFestival #ComedyFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #France #Painting #WorldNews #Festivals #Europe #Culture #Comedy #ArtAndDesign #Art

Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/05/peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-review-tommy-shelby-returns-for-muddy-bloody-big-screen-showdown #Film #CrimeFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #PeakyBlinders #CillianMurphy #RebeccaFerguson #BarryKeoghan #Birmingham #RomaGypsiesAndTravellers #Culture #TelevisionRadio #UkNews #WorldNews #SecondWorldWar

Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/rose-review-sandra-huller-berlin-film-festival-gender-stereotypes #Film #DramaFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Germany #Austria #BerlinFilmFestival #BerlinFilmFestival2026 #Culture #Europe #Festivals #WorldNews

A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/a-prayer-for-the-dying-review-pestilent-western-feels-like-a-short-stretched-too-long #BerlinFilmFestival2026 #Film #Westerns #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JohnCReilly #JohnnyFlynn #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #Music #BerlinFilmFestival #Festivals

‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/12/blue-boy-trial-japan-trans-history-kasho-iizuka #Film #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Transgender #Japan #AsiaPacific #Culture #Society #WorldNews

‘I can understand being brought to your knees’: Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/i-can-understand-being-brought-to-your-knees-amanda-seyfried-on-obsession-devotion-and-the-joy-of-socks #Film #AmandaSeyfried #Culture #DramaFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Religion

‘I’d come back to the UK – but I’m not playing a cop’: Oscar-tipped Wunmi Mosaku on sensational vampire smash Sinners https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/20/oscar-tipped-wunmi-mosaku-vampire-hit-sinners #Sinners #Film #Culture #Marvel #Oscars #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #AwardsAndPrizes

Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/14/nuremberg-review-russell-crowe-is-top-notch-as-an-on-trial-goring-but-rami-malek-lets-side-down #Periodandhistoricalfilms #MichaelShannon #RichardEGrant #RussellCrowe #Dramafilms #LeoWoodall #RamiMalek #Worldnews #Culture #Nazism #Film #Law

‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/11/nuremberg-interview-rami-malek-michael-shannon-hermann-goring-russell-crowe #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Secondworldwar #MichaelShannon #RamiMalek #Culture #Nazism #Film

Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/jane-austen-dark-side-19th-century-life-emma-pride-and-prejudice-wuthering-heights #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Perioddrama(TV) #CharlotteBrontë #EmeraldFennell #AndrewDavies #JaneAusten #Television #Slavery #Culture #UKnews #Books #Drama #Film

Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/02/dead-mans-wire-review-gus-van-sant-true-crime-thriller-al-pacino-colman-domingo-myhala-venice-film-festival #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Venicefilmfestival #GusVanSant #Crimefilms #Festivals #AlPacino #Culture #Film

Orphan review – László Nemes’ fable of resentment and rage in post-uprising Hungary https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/28/orphan-review-laszlo-nemes-fable-of-resentment-and-rage-in-post-uprising-hungary #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Venicefilmfestival #LászlóNemes #Dramafilms #Worldnews #Festivals #Hungary #Culture #Europe #Film

The Ritual review – Al Pacino is priestly mastermind in tale of infamous real-life exorcism https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/27/the-ritual-review-al-pacino-is-priestly-mastermind-in-tale-of-infamous-real-life-exorcism #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Christianity #Horrorfilms #DanStevens #Worldnews #AlPacino #Culture #Film

The Mastermind review – Josh O’Connor is world’s worst art thief in Kelly Reichardt’s unlikely heist movie https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/23/the-mastermind-review-josh-oconnor-kelly-reichardt #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Cannesfilmfestival #KellyReichardt #JoshO'Connor #Dramafilms #Crimefilms #Worldnews #Festivals #UScrime #Culture #USnews #Film

The Secret Agent review – brilliant Brazilian drama of an academic on the run in the murderous 1970s https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/20/the-secret-agent-review-brilliant-brazilian-drama-of-an-academic-on-the-run-in-the-murderous-1970s #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Cannesfilmfestival #Dramafilms #Festivals #Worldnews #Americas #Culture #Brazil #Film

Sound of Falling review – intergenerational angst haunts a German farmhouse https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/14/sound-of-falling-review-cannes-film-festival #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Dramafilms #Worldnews #Germany #Culture #Europe #Film

Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/10/sinners-review-ryan-cooglers-deep-south-gonzo-horror-down-at-the-crossroads #Periodandhistoricalfilms #HaileeSteinfeld #MichaelBJordan #JackO'Connell #Horrorfilms #RyanCoogler #Thrillers #Culture #Blues #Music #Film

I’m Still Here wins Oscar for best international film, becoming first Brazilian film to do so https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/03/oscar-im-still-here-best-international-film #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Awardsandprizes #WalterSalles #Worldnews #Americas #Culture #Oscars #Brazil #Film

‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/17/peter-weir-how-we-made-picnic-at-hanging-rock #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Australianews #Dramafilms #PeterWeir #Worldnews #Culture #Film

Long-delayed DiCaprio/Scorsese serial killer film Devil in the White City back on track https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/23/dicaprio-scorsese-serial-killer-film-devil-in-the-white-city-back-on-track #Periodandhistoricalfilms #LeonardoDiCaprio #Filmadaptations #MartinScorsese #Crimefilms #Worldnews #UScrime #Chicago #Culture #USnews #Books #Film

The 50 best movies of 2024 in the US: 50-31 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/09/the-50-best-movies-of-2024-in-the-us #Periodandhistoricalfilms #BestmoviesUS2024 #Documentaryfilms #Bestfilmsof2024 #2024inCulture #Comedyfilms #Dramafilms #Musicals #Culture #Film

Mary review – turgid bibical tale has you rooting for Anthony Hopkins’ hammy Herod https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/06/mary-jesus-hopkins-bible #Periodandhistoricalfilms #AnthonyHopkins #Christianity #Dramafilms #Worldnews #Religion #Culture #Film

Maggie Smith was the grandest of grande dames – and a true cinematic superstar | Peter Bradshaw https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/27/maggie-smith-cinematic-superstar #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Filmadaptations #ARoomwithaView #MaggieSmith #Comedyfilms #Dramafilms #Culture #Comedy #Books #Film

‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/17/ian-mckellen-the-critic-theatre-i-filed-my-copy-from-waterloo-station-loos #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Filmadaptations #IanMcKellen #Dramafilms #Crimefilms #Theatre #Culture #Stage #Books #Film

Maria review – Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/29/maria-review-callas-angelina-jolie-pablo-larrain-paris #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Venicefilmfestival2024 #Venicefilmfestival #AngelinaJolie #MariaCallas #Festivals #Worldnews #Biopics #Culture #France #Europe #Paris #Music #Film

‘He isn’t just a pet. He is a character’: Black Dog director Guan Hu on filming an indescribable bond https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/27/black-dog-director-guan-hu-chinese-film-maker #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Lifeandstyle #AsiaPacific #Dramafilms #Worldnews #Culture #Animals #China #Film #Dogs #Pets

Fly Me to the Moon review – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/09/fly-me-to-the-moon-review-slinky-scarlett-johansson-in-cynical-moon-landing-conspiracy-comedy #Periodandhistoricalfilms #ScarlettJohansson #ChanningTatum #Romancefilms #Comedyfilms #Themoon #Culture #Science #Comedy #Space #Film #Nasa

Rosalie review – intriguing empowerment tale of a 19th century celebrity ‘bearded lady’ https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/05/rosalie-review-intriguing-empowerment-tale-of-a-19th-century-celebrity-bearded-lady #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Health&wellbeing #Lifeandstyle #Dramafilms #Bodyimage #Worldnews #Culture #Society #France #Europe #Health #Women #Film

The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/16/the-girl-with-the-needle-review-magnus-van-horne-dagmar-overbye #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Cannesfilmfestival #Firstworldwar #Worldcinema #Cannes2024 #Dramafilms #Crimefilms #Worldnews #Festivals #Denmark #Culture #Europe #Film

Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/03/unfrosted-review-jerry-seinfeld-toast-to-pop-tarts #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Television&radio #MelissaMcCarthy #JerrySeinfeld #Comedyfilms #TVstreaming #AmySchumer #Breakfast #JonHamm #Culture #Comedy #Film #Food