Culture, Film

My Big Fat Gypsy Fistfight

My Big Fat Gypsy Fistfight

“Knuckle”, a new documentary about an age-old feud between two traveller families, is not by any stretch a polished film. In fact, it’s not even a particularly gripping film. Structured around a decade of repetitively bleak bare-knuckle dust-ups between the Quinn McDonaghs and the Joyces, who slug it out in muddy car parks and country lanes from Oxford to Dundalk, trying to determine once and for all – well, no one quite remembers what. [Read more...]

Culture, Film, Women we love

Can we all please stop hating on Anne Hathaway

Can we all please stop hating on Anne Hathaway

So, Anne Hathaway plays Emma Morley in One Day. This, according to some fans of David Nicholls’ stupendously popular book of the same name about the will-they-won’t-they friendship between a Yorkshire lass and a Cotswolds posho, is not a good thing. [Read more...]

Film

The stuff that made me – Pedro Almodóvar

The stuff that made me – Pedro Almodóvar

The cult Spanish film director reveals his affection for Robert Mapplethorpe, James Blake and Vicky Pollard. [Read more...]

Culture, Film

The Inbetweeners have a new ride

The Inbetweeners have a new ride

Having flogged Simon’s appropriately vomit-yellow Fiat Cinquecento from the TV series to raise £21,000 for Comic Relief in March, The Inbetweeners were in need of a new set of wheels for their new movie. The teenage clunge-enthusiasts hit Crete on a lads’ holiday (“lads” being the loosest of terms). As you can see, they opted for paddles instead — less good for cruising down the Malia strip — but in the right colour and with what will no doubt prove to be easy-to-wipe-down surfaces. The Inbetweeners Movie is out today

Film, Style

In close-up – Dominic Cooper

In close-up – Dominic Cooper

He’s the bronzed one in beachwear in Mamma Mia! and the shiny-suited son of Saddam in this month’s The Devil’s Double, so for British actor Dominic Cooper, modelling this season’s essential monochrome tailoring in New York is a cinch.

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Film

New wave cinema

New wave cinema

Forget drive-in or rooftop: today sees the launch of the world’s first ever sail-in cinema. [Read more...]

Culture, Film

Prime Mate – why Nim is this summer’s most unlikely heart-throb

Prime Mate – why Nim is this summer’s most unlikely heart-throb

If you’re tired of seeing the same smooth-talking, straight-walking lotharios stealing the hearts of Hollywood, look no further than the latest documentary film from the team behind Man on Wire. This reverse-Jungle-Book tale is the story of Project Nim, a 1970s language experiment that sees a baby chimp learning enough sign language to construct more meaningful sentences than most bus-stop hooligans. [Read more...]

Culture, Film

The Esquire Intervention – Jim Carrey

The Esquire Intervention – Jim Carrey

As the latest Jim Carrey ‘vehicle’, Mr Popper’s Penguins, opens this week, we thought it was time to step in with an open letter addressed to the man himself. [Read more...]