John Bleasdale
16 October 2026
How Kyle MacLachlan became the king of uncool
From Twin Peaks to Showgirls, Hollywood’s strangest leading man has turned cringe into an art form
Read the full article07 October 2026
Free Willy: Why are there so many penises on the big screen all of a sudden?
For decades, the male member was taboo. Now, from prestige drama to superhero satire, it’s everywhere
Read the full article30 September 2026
What Danny Boyle gets badly wrong about The Sun
Ink is an advert for the old media that skirts over the damaging journalism Rupert Murodch’s tabloid unleashed
Read the full article26 September 2026
The Afghan who went to space
A film-maker’s obsession with Afghanistan’s forgotten cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand becomes a deeply personal journey into his family’s past
Read the full article19 September 2026
Why Netanyahu hates the most powerful film of the year
The chilling documentary NAZA reveals how Gaza’s civilians are treated as collateral damage in the war against Hamas
Read the full article16 September 2026
Why Slavoj Žižek probably hates you
Controversial, dizzyingly erudite and defiantly European, is the world finally catching up with the Slovenian thinker?
Read the full article09 September 2026
Bill Evans and the trouble with the tortured genius myth
A new biopic of the great jazz pianist who died too soon neatly sidesteps music biopic cliches
Read the full article02 September 2026
Why does Hollywood keep getting the Beatles wrong?
The answer is that no one can possibly play the Fab Four as well as they played themselves
Read the full article19 August 2026
The strange death of sex in the movies
Hollywood used to understand desire. Now even its sex comedies are embarrassed about the bedroom
Read the full article12 August 2026
Can films fight fascism? Mark Cousins thinks so
The director and critic returns with more episodes of his new epic The Story of Documentary Film
Read the full article05 August 2026
Vicky Krieps, the woman who won’t play along
The Love Me Tender star on method acting, motherhood and refusing to fit in
Read the full article29 July 2026
The unshakeable confidence of Julian Schnabel
The painter-turned-director’s In the Hand of Dante has divided critics. Luckily, he thinks it’s a masterpiece
Read the full article25 July 2026
My top ten hates about online journalism, ranked
Rants, spoilers, lazy lists like this one - the internet has wrecked film writing and infected other parts of the trade, too
Read the full article23 July 2026
Four new films that show us the trouble with happy families
Unwanted guests, bossy mums and women on the edge make Fruit Gathering, The Guest, Olivia and A Happy Family worth your money
Read the full article17 July 2026
This is Christopher Nolan’s world, and we’re lucky to live in it
He’s consistently brilliant and consistently underrated – and The Odyssey is another reminder to enjoy greatness while it lasts.
Read the full article15 July 2026
How a Liverpool fan fell in love with Cantona
A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport
Read the full article10 July 2026
The activists trying to save cinema, one screen at a time
Over 2,500 of Italy’s cinemas have closed since the pandemic. But a group of film enthusiasts has a plan to turn things around
Read the full article03 July 2026
The awful truth about the revolting film Elon Musk wants you to watch
Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth
Read the full article18 June 2026
The sheer hell of Hell Grind, a fully AI-generated movie
Does it point the way to the future? Yes, but only because the future is shit
Read the full article11 June 2026
Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is willfully gullible guff for Trump wingnuts
The great director should have thought twice about promoting the conspiracy theories that are now a central plank of US government policy
Read the full article10 June 2026
This is the simple secret of Obsession and Backrooms’s success
They’ve captured a moment of IP fatigue. But more than anything else, they're good
Read the full article05 June 2026
Nicole Kidman is great. But is she any good?
For every standout performance in The Hours, there’s a stinker like Scarpetta. Yet this is part of her unknowable mystique
Read the full article27 May 2026
How Na Hong-jin’s Hope brought glory to a second-best Cannes
The monster movie stood out at a festival full of three-star films
Read the full article20 May 2026
Imagine this Lennon film doesn’t exist
AI slop wrecks a compelling final interview, but Cantona, Full Phil and Paper Tiger stand out at Cannes
Read the full article13 May 2026
Soderbergh’s The Christophers underlines Hollywood’s genius problem
A film about a great painter needs great paintings to succeed
Read the full article06 May 2026
The night before Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola took over Hollywood
A new book details how three friends invented a new American cinema - then created the blockbusters that destroyed it
Read the full article22 April 2026
The new Michael Jackson biopic is worse than bad – it’s dangerous
‘Michael’ avoids the claims of child abuse by the King of Pop – and falls into the same old cliches
Read the full article08 April 2026
Exclusive: Jim Jarmusch on psilocybin, Buddhist jokes and turning Tom Waits into an asshole
In his only UK interview for Father Mother Sister Brother, the director opens up about his films, his inspirations and why he hates rehearsals
Read the full article03 April 2026
Whatever happened to the great film comedy?
Movies intended to make you scream with fright are everywhere. Ones to make you scream with laughter, not so much
Read the full article01 April 2026
Why won’t young US celebrities speak out against Trump?
The No Kings protests were heartening - but they exposed an absence of younger stars willing to stand up
Read the full article25 March 2026
George Orwell wasn’t a prophet – he was a warning
Raoul Peck, the director of Orwell: 2+2=5, on how the writer’s message is missed and misused – and what he would have thought of Trump and Gaza
Read the full article20 March 2026
More quiet, fewer boobs. Is this Paolo Sorrentino’s most subversive film?
The director on his stylistic shift in the acclaimed La Grazia - and his despair at modern politics
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