Film News from Times Online

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:20 GMT

Strawberry and Chocolate

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:05:51 GMT

Public Enemies

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:02:38 GMT

Hollywood just got younger

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:01:54 GMT

In Hollywood the recent news that Miley Cyrus is to star in a remake of The Bodyguard and that Zac Efron will headline a new version of Saturday Night Fever seems particularly poignant. For it represents a passing of sorts, an axis shift between generations. It is the tacit acknowledgement that a movie industry once built upon the solid efforts of John Travolta dramas and Kevin Costner thrillers is now utterly in thrall to the glamour and the power of the new tween superstars.

Brüno: ich bin ein superstar

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:05 GMT

Brüno has been our favourite Austrian fashion reporter since we caught him on the cable station OJRF during the Vienna biennale back in 1998. From Get Uber It to Funkyzeit mit Brüno (Funkytime with Brüno), we’ve watched with admiration as he took to the catwalk at the Lloyd Klein show, interviewed Gisele Bündchen and failed to gain entry to the Marc Jacobs party, despite offering extensive party favours. So, when we heard he had a film coming out that charts his attempts to penetrate America’s celebrity culture, we jumped at the chance to cosy up with our own little bunker boy.

Rudo y Cursi

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:06:13 GMT

Sunshine Cleaning

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:03:10 GMT

Lake Tahoe

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:02:12 GMT

The top ten most offensive movies

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Warning: clips in this article contain language and scenes that may offend

The 50 Best Movie Villains

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:00:01 GMT

Heroes get all the hype, but deep down, we all love a good villain. I can take or leave the square-jawed boy scout, the do-gooder who gets the girl and saves the day; but the villain is a different kettle of genetically modified laser wielding fish altogether.

Le Donk at the Edinburgh Film Festival

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:30 GMT

The September Issue, Edinburgh Film Festival

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:09 GMT

Pick of the week: Edinburgh International Film Festival

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:07:49 GMT

Simon Pegg is deadly serious about his Hollywood ambitions

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:53:53 GMT

Simon Pegg pulls on sunglasses and settles in the leafy garden of the house he is temporarily renting in Los Angeles. The swimming pool sparkles. A hummingbird flits past, and his dog, Minnie, a schnauzer who flew out from London with him and his wife, settles in his lap.

Telstar

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:03:09 GMT

The Disappeared

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:02:43 GMT

Transfomer's Michael Bay goes for fewer bangs for his bucks

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:01:26 GMT

Pity Michael Bay. He stands before you, one of the most commercially successful and yet critically reviled directors of the modern movie era. His films, such as The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and Transformers, have taken nearly $3 billion ($£1.8 billion) at the international box office. They are, it is said, movies that celebrate militarism, machismo and visual excess; that pummel viewers into submission through a brutal screen aesthetic of synapse-splitting mayhem. They are, it is also said, commercials for Bay himself, a former ad-man, a 44-year-old sports jock and a terrifying on-set martinet who drives a yellow Ferrari, owns enormous mansions on both sides of America, and personally earned $75 million from the first Transformers movie and merchandise. He is, apparently, both a figure of hate and a one-joke punchline for industry watchers, journalists and tastemakers everywhere.$

Brüno, the new Sacha Baron Cohen film, opens in Leicester Square

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:01:22 GMT

“Heeeerre’s Brüno!” screamed the MC, and he appeared to the sound of trumpets, like Spartacus.

Away We Go at the Edinburgh Film Festival

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:30 GMT

Why Sacha Baron Cohen’s new jokes make the Austrians squirm

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Just when it looked safe to unpack those cow bells again and start trilling Doh-a-Deer on the Alpine slopes, along comes Sacha Baron Cohen alias Brüno, in the tightest of lederhosen. After last night’s film premiere in London, Austria’s beleaguered image-makers are probably huddled together at this very moment — one would like to think in a secret basement somewhere — working out how to avoid the fate of Kazakhstan.

Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno hobbled by 18 certificate

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A huge chunk of the likely audience for Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film about a gay Austrian fashion journalist, will not see it on the big screen after a surprise 18 rating was announced yesterday.

Looking for Eric

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:09:12 GMT

The Hangover

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:01:53 GMT

They’re back — and at a cinema near you

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:01:27 GMT

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Michael Haneke’s 'The White Ribbon' wins Palme d’Or

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:48 GMT

Click here to read The Times' review of The White Ribbon I Our critics pick their top ten films at Cannes