Isis is using techniques plundered from movies, video games and news channels to spread its message. Who is masterminding the operation and what is the best way to counter it? In 1941, Hollywood director Frank Capra was commissioned to make a series of propaganda films for the US war effort
US illustrator Leanne Shapton’s new book is a highly entertaining collection of black and white watercolours based on classic film stills, arranged to suggest a whole new narrative… Leanne Shapton is a superbly talented and exceedingly well-connected New York-based illustrator and author – from 2008 to 2009 she was the art director of the New York Times op-ed page – who turns out surprising and …
‘Why audiences might prefer to watch his oeuvre – a 40-year mass of frequently explicit sex films – at home rather than at the multiplex, is an enigma that may never be unravelled’ Though few of his films have secured UK cinema releases since his notorious sex-and-sandals epic Caligula sent British authorities into the mother of all censorship tizzes in 1979, self-proclaimed Italian “master of …
‘In his version of events, each and every character speaks like a race commentator, clarifying events as they happen and saying things like “Ready? I’ve been waiting for this my whole life…”‘ Reading this on mobile?
From wild-haired rockers to joyful bolero singers, films with or about celebrated musicians have played a key part in the movies. Here, the Guardian and Observers’ critics pick the 10 finest • Top 10 silent movies • Top 10 sports movies • Top 10 film noir • Top 10 musicals • Top 10 martial arts movies • Top 10 biopics • More Guardian and Observer critics’ top 10s 10. Don’t Look Back DA …
Lifeforce | Dial M For Murder | Phantom Of The Opera | Mabuse The Gambler | Breaking Bad | Nosferatu | Arrow Reading this on mobile? Click here to view This year has seen many bigger companies appear to lose interest in the Blu-ray market, with no big box set or restoration projects to match last year’s Hitchcock or Universal Horror collections. Worse yet, the annoying and worrying trend of …
Director James Cameron says the movies will be shot together and released between 2016 and 2018
Wolf Children | Misfits: Series 1-5 | Big Trouble In Little China | Elementary: Season 1 | Elysium Reading this on mobile? Click here to view It hasn’t been a banner year for animated movies. The not-as-good-as-the-first-one Despicable Me 2 cleaned up at the box office, while the offerings from the usually reliable Pixar and Ghibli, Monsters University and The Wind Rises, were good rather than …
Only God Forgives | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Man Of Steel | The Lone Ranger | The Phantom Of The Opera Only God Forgives Reading this on mobile? Click here to view “Drive was going to feel like really, really good cocaine and Only God Forgives will then be very strong acid,” says director Nicolas Winding Refn on the commentary to his latest team-up with Ryan Gosling