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‘Heath Ledger knocked my tooth out jousting with a broom’: how we made A Knight’s Tale

silverguide.site – ‘The lances were made of balsa wood and filled with uncooked spaghetti – so that when they broke, there’d be an explosion of what looked like splinters’…
‘Heath Ledger knocked my tooth out jousting with a broom’: how we made A Knight’s Tale

Bare Skin review – floridly wordy group therapy horror is propelled by trauma stories

silverguide.site – Mico Montes’s perplexing horror portmanteau relies more on atmosphere than its actors for effect…
Bare Skin review – floridly wordy group therapy horror is propelled by trauma stories

Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes

silverguide.site – Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany…
Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes

Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?

silverguide.site – With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea…
Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is big movie with a very small mind | Adrian Horton

silverguide.site – The maximalist adaptation of the gothic romance shows great interest in production design but very little in character…
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is big movie with a very small mind | Adrian Horton

Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review – eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise

silverguide.site – Takeshi Koike’s latest take on Monkey Punch’s vintage manga thief is beautifully animated, but the gossamer-thin plot and characterisation mean it’s one for superfans only…
Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review – eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise

‘Unintentionally among the queerest releases of its time’: why Calamity Jane is my feelgood movie

silverguide.site – The latest in our ongoing series of writers picking their comfort watches is an appreciation of Doris Day’s rule-defying heroine…
‘Unintentionally among the queerest releases of its time’: why Calamity Jane is my feelgood movie

Warner Bros Discovery weighs new sale talks after fresh Paramount offer

silverguide.site – Board considering whether to re-engage in move that could prompt a second bidding war with Netflix…
Warner Bros Discovery weighs new sale talks after fresh Paramount offer

Collective Monologue review – sensuous zoo study foregrounds contacts between keepers and creatures

silverguide.site – Jessica Sarah Rinland’s documentary examines how humans and animals interact in the confines of captivity, but leaves some questions unexplored…
Collective Monologue review – sensuous zoo study foregrounds contacts between keepers and creatures

Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism

silverguide.site – Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure…
Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism

Grim reapers: what has fertilised the rich new wave of neo-rural noir?

silverguide.site – The Shepherd and the Bear is part of a new breed of films with a sympathy for country matters that has moved on from othering folk-horror…
Grim reapers: what has fertilised the rich new wave of neo-rural noir?

Wuthering Heights rakes in $77m at global box office in opening weekend

silverguide.site – Emerald Fennell’s divisive film is the year’s biggest opening so far, having recouped its entire estimated production budget over the opening weekend…
Wuthering Heights rakes in $77m at global box office in opening weekend

Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles

silverguide.site – Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives…
Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles

Nightborn review – Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby

silverguide.site – Dark forces give new parents more than they bargained with in this unsubtle Finnish horror from Hanna Bergholm…
Nightborn review – Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby

The Education of Jane Cumming review – sexuality, race and a real school scandal

silverguide.site – Sophie Heldman’s drama about two teachers accused of lesbianism by a pupil is exhilaratingly candid…
The Education of Jane Cumming review – sexuality, race and a real school scandal

Bud Cort obituary

silverguide.site – American actor who starred in the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude that later became a cult classic…
Bud Cort obituary

Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments

silverguide.site – Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’…
Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments

‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show

silverguide.site – He went from being the east London boy who was expelled from school to becoming the Bafta award‑winning star of Alien: Romulus. Ahead of his prison drama Wasteman, David Jonsson discusses the pressures of being a leading Black British actor…
‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show

Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo

silverguide.site – Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film…
Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo

‘Full of emotional wisdom’: Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen

silverguide.site – For Valentine’s Day, writers picked their favourite lesser-known film love stories – from a dom-sub chamberpiece to a magical teen comedy…
‘Full of emotional wisdom’: Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen
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