Communion by Jon Doyle: A genuinely idiosyncratic way of describing the everyday
Novel has a meandering quality and a subtlety in terms of what’s actually happening that proves a bit too subtle
Quentin Tarantino
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‘You took the money’: Tarantino responds to Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction racial slur criticism
Director has received criticism on multiple occasions during his career over use of word in his films
The Music Quiz: What is film director Quentin Tarantino’s favourite song?
Plus: At the start of the film Send Help, which Blondie song is Rachel McAdams’ character, Linda, listening to?
More than 50 years on, The Exorcist still possesses the United States
US Letter: Scenes were filmed in Washington DC, where the 1973 movie is celebrated to this day
Caught Stealing review: Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper is good fun but tonally chaotic
Something happens a third of the way in that should change everything, but doesn’t
Jaws: As Steven Spielberg’s film turns 50, we’re still living in the shadow of the shark
Jaws is accused of destroying US cinema, but it was popcorn entertainment of the kind the studios would always shift back to
Michael Madsen will be remembered for one of the defining cinematic moments of the 1990s
A charismatic heavy for the ages, Madsen found stardom under Quentin Tarantino, but great roles in important films kept eluding him
Quentin Tarantino understood something Joe Biden did not - how to quit while you’re ahead
The director understood people will remember how you left with grace just as much as they remember how you performed at your peak
Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudity
Cannes Diary: French film festival’s opening day contends with news from Gérard Depardieu’s sexual-assault trial
Cannes film festival 2025 red carpet looks: Halle Berry among stars caught out by stricter dress code
No nudity or voluminous gowns rule sees last-minute change by Oscar-winner, while Juliette Binoche welcomed a shift on heels
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’
An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism
Tinseltown loses its lustre: the home of American cinema is hanging on by a thread
If you can’t keep the film houses open in Los Angeles, what hope for the rest of the world?
‘When I sense something is not right, I am going to protect myself’: Lucy Liu on standing up for herself and calling out Bill Murray
The actor soared to fame in Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels and Ally McBeal – navigating a notorious time for women on set. Now, she returns to Hollywood in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence
The Franchise review: Sharp satire and punchy energy aside, this parody of superhero films is a miss
Television: If you want to properly satirise a genre, you can’t look down on it to this extent
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