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Wolf Children review – Mamoru Hosoda’s tender werewolf fable is a minor masterpiece

silverguide.site – Childhood, single motherhood and the call of the wild converge in Hosoda’s most emotionally resonant film – a beautifully drawn tale of love, loss and letting go…
Wolf Children review – Mamoru Hosoda’s tender werewolf fable is a minor masterpiece

Super Charlie review – superhero baby yarn channels resentment of older kids at new arrivals

silverguide.site – An adaptation of Swedish author Camilla Läckberg’s series explores an important theme but doesn’t compare to Pixar in fun or heart…
Super Charlie review – superhero baby yarn channels resentment of older kids at new arrivals

Ray Brooks obituary

silverguide.site – Star of Cathy Come Home and The Knack who later appeared in EastEnders and was the voice of Mr Benn…
Ray Brooks obituary

Future Council follows eight children fighting for the climate. But should kids be saddled with such a burden?

silverguide.site – This new documentary sees children voice their fears about the future of the planet – but its director argues ‘they’re not here to save the world’…
Future Council follows eight children fighting for the climate. But should kids be saddled with such a burden?

Malqueridas review – blurry phone footage takes us inside Chile’s prisons with incarcerated mothers

silverguide.site – Video shot by inmates opens the doors on the often painful realities of having children in the country’s jails…
Malqueridas review – blurry phone footage takes us inside Chile’s prisons with incarcerated mothers

That Alien, Sound review – super-kooky indie comedy puts sound-wave ET in woman’s body

silverguide.site – Brando Topp’s debut feature follows a disembodied alien inhabiting a young woman’s body in a surreal exploration of music, identity and disconnection…
That Alien, Sound review – super-kooky indie comedy puts sound-wave ET in woman’s body

‘Nothing else quite like it’: why DEBS is my feelgood movie

silverguide.site – The next pick in our series of writers highlighting their favourite comfort watches is a box office dud from the 2000s that became a queer cult classic…
‘Nothing else quite like it’: why DEBS is my feelgood movie

Dawn Dusk review – handbag designer deals with grief over murdered sister and dead friend

silverguide.site – Not long out of high school, Chelli is finding her way through awful grief for her best friend, and for her sister, but this documentary loses sight of its subject…
Dawn Dusk review – handbag designer deals with grief over murdered sister and dead friend

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

silverguide.site – The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festival…
‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

My Grandmother Trelotótó review – following a lost family history from Mozambique to Portugal

silverguide.site – Catarina Ruivo’s sprawling documentary trails her late relation back to the former colony, following the letters she wrote home in the 1940s and 50s…
My Grandmother Trelotótó review – following a lost family history from Mozambique to Portugal

‘A kick in the head we all needed’: beloved satirist John Clarke celebrated in new film by his daughter

silverguide.site – Lorin Clarke’s documentary But Also John Clarke examines the forces that created Fred Dagg – and the reinvention that came with his move from New Zealand to Australia…
‘A kick in the head we all needed’: beloved satirist John Clarke celebrated in new film by his daughter

Love? Actually, no: Emma Thompson reveals Donald Trump asked her on a date

silverguide.site – Actor said Trump phoned her to make the offer on the day her divorce from Kenneth Branagh was confirmed in 1998…
Love? Actually, no: Emma Thompson reveals Donald Trump asked her on a date

‘This is big blissful entertainment’: global film critics on the one movie that defines their country

silverguide.site – What single film best represents a nation? Here, 12 writers choose the one movie they believe most captures their home’s culture and cinema – from a bold cricket musical to a nine-hour documentary, gritty crime dramas to frothy tales of revenge…
‘This is big blissful entertainment’: global film critics on the one movie that defines their country

One More Shot review – what if you could turn back time … via a magical tequila?

silverguide.site – This Australian time-loop comedy starring Emily Browning, Aisha Dee and Ashley Zukerman is pleasingly derivative…
One More Shot review – what if you could turn back time … via a magical tequila?

Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

silverguide.site – Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflement…
Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

silverguide.site – Ben Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adults…
Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller

silverguide.site – Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness…
Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller

Yellowstone, Top Gun, Chalamet: what will the Paramount-Skydance merger mean for film and TV?

silverguide.site – Controversial $8bn deal finalized this week and the future is set to look different for one of the biggest Hollywood studios…
Yellowstone, Top Gun, Chalamet: what will the Paramount-Skydance merger mean for film and TV?

The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel

silverguide.site – The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Border Patrol?…
The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel

The Birthday Party review – Willem Dafoe is the life and soul as menacing Onassis-alike

silverguide.site – A charismatic Dafoe commands the screen as a Greek alpha-patriarch, throwing a claustrophobic celebration for his second favourite child…
The Birthday Party review – Willem Dafoe is the life and soul as menacing Onassis-alike
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