Robert Rodriguez
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We Can be Heroes: A defiantly unthreatening movie from the oldest kid on the block
- Film
- December 31, 2020, 05:00
Robert Rodriguez, still the biggest kid on the block at 52, has never hidden his affection for trash culture of earlier generations, but his own rubbi(...)

George Clooney: ‘I’d kill for some loneliness right now’
- Film
- December 19, 2020, 05:00
The actor-director on his new film, Covid-19 and why he’s not allowed to ride a motorcycle George Clooney has learned a valuable lesson in lockd(...)

Danny Trejo helps rescue child from overturned car
- Film
- August 8, 2019, 16:10
Actor Danny Trejo played a real-life hero when he helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car after a collision at a junction in Los Angeles. (...)

Movie studios shouldn’t worry about internet blowhards
- Culture
- March 16, 2019, 06:00
‘The internet? Is that thing still around?” It’s been 20 years since Homer Simpson said those words, but, even then, we were expected to snort at his(...)

Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’
- Film
- March 16, 2019, 05:00
Before I meet Rose McGowan, I spend a lot of time wondering which Rose McGowan I am going to meet. The steely Rose McGowan who faced down her a(...)

Alita Battle Angel: A childish film that wastes its huge budget
- Film
- February 8, 2019
Alternative universes provide film-makers with the opportunity to wind new cultures and new philosophies about architectures that stretch the limits o(...)

Robert Rodriguez: ‘I don’t live in Hollywood. There’s nobody to tell me I’m doing it wrong’
- Film
- February 6, 2019
Robert Rodriguez made ‘El Mariachi’ for $7,000. His new film, ‘Alita: Battle Angel’, made with his pal James Cameron, cost $200m. ‘They’re get(...)

Rose McGowan details ‘rape’ by Harvey Weinstein in her memoir
- Film
- January 30, 2018
After years of publicly accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, the actor Rose McGowan has detailed the sexual assault she said occurred(...)

Ben Affleck apologises for groping actor Hilarie Burton
- Film
- October 12, 2017, 13:40
Ben Affleck has apologised for groping the actor Hilarie Burton during an appearance on MTV’s Total Request Live in 2003. The former One Tree Hill act(...)

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For review – sub-noir and comical
- Film
- September 5, 2014
Lights down. Blood on the moon. The screen blows up like a hooker’s Christmas tree during a September power surge. Here’s Rodriguez and Miller hopped (...)