Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar
Once again, Irish writer-director John Carney delivers an aspart…
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On Memoir by Blake Morrison review – lessons in life writing from a master ⊖
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Don’t be fooled by the A-Z treatment – this thoroughgoing guide asks deep questions about the art of autobiography
“I’ve had a life and I’ve also had a life as a life writer”: Blake Morrison opens his…
3 months ago
Swearing, Marty Supreme … and Prince William: Bafta’s 12 biggest snubs and surprises ⊕⊕
This year’s Baftas were a chaotic mix of wild praise and inadvertent insults as the best actor prize was won by an unknown – and one of the nominees seemingly slurred from a man in the stalls
How the …
4 months ago
Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island ⊖
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film
• Combat intensifies as One Battle After …
‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures ⊖
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For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she l…
7 months ago
Ballad of a Small Player review – Colin Farrell seeks redemption in Edward Berger’s high-stakes gambling yarn ⊖
Debts, secrets and a cartoonish Tilda Swinton catch up with Farrell’s self-styled ‘Lord Doyle’ as he confronts his own destiny in a chance to win salvation
The vast emptiness of luxury hotels is part …
‘It’s like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way’: Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama ⊕
The actors star in Edward Berger’s woozy casino film Ballad of a Small Player. Amid the opulence of a Macau hotel, they talk risk, addiction and Fabergé eggs
On a humid morning in Macau, a blue-and-or…
8 months ago
Ballad of a Small Player review – Colin Farrell wins us over in flashy, slight gambler tale ○
Toronto film festival: Conclave director Edward Berger makes a less cohesive follow-up with an over-stylised adaptation of Lawrence Osborne’s novel sold by a killer central performance
It was easy to …
9 months ago
Tim Key: ‘I imagine Alan Partridge smells lightly of Brut aftershave’ ○
The comedian, actor and poet behind The Ballad of Wallis Island on stalking an England cricket captain, being evicted in Edinburgh and his love for fig rolls
Your new film The Ballad Of Wallis Island …
‘I luxuriate in the weird details’: why Highlander is my feelgood movie ○
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort watches is a journey back to the unusual sci-fi antics of 1986
With all due respect to Flash Gordon, there is only room in…