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What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks
US research suggests that 92 minutes is the optimum length for a film. But I have sat through long films that felt short and short films that felt buttock-annihilatingly long [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Turtles All the Way Down review – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film
The Max adaptation of John Green's 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plotFor better and for worse, John Green's young adult [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ideal’ movie running time is 92 minutes, poll claims
Survey of 2,000 Americans conflicts with the box-office records being broken for film running well over two hoursA market research poll claims to have established that 92 minutes is the [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Cold review – theatrically evocative folk-tale treatment of the pain of miscarriage
A man tells a stranger a story in a doctor's waiting room to distract her, sparking a fairy tale of loss and desperationFilm-makers Claire Coache and Lisle Turner are a [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes: the wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima
Busted for cruising in an LA toilet, he proudly turned his police documents into art. Now the Californian is bringing Being Along – his elegant hymn to anonymous hookups – [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Riddle of Fire review – quest for a blueberry pie aims to be ye olde work of whimsy
This kids' adventure story with a faux medievalist vibe has a cute conceit and some fun sequences but the inexperience of the cast and director showsIf you've ever tried to [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Norwegian Dream review – queer romance speaks for all the oppressed underclasses
This idealistic feature draws parallels between the struggles of immigrant Polish workers in Norway and the homophobia faced by two young lovers, but can't quite sew up the two seamsDirector [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Infinity According to Florian review - mission to save Ukraine’s extraordinary modernist masterpiece
Oleksiy Radynski chronicles the visionary architect Florian Yuriev's drive to rescue Kyiv's Institute of Information from destruction after he was given weeks to live The extraordinary mind of Florian Yuriev, [...]
Mon, Apr 29, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Earlier
Nicole Kidman given life achievement award by American Film Institute
Oscar-winner is first Australian actor to receive honour as Meryl Streep says it is ‘impossible not to be in awe of her'Nicole Kidman has been honoured with an American Film [...]
Sun, Apr 28, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
ISS review – Ariana DeBose shines in tense if contrived International Space Station thriller
DeBose plays a research scientist caught between increasingly at odds astronauts and cosmonauts in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's credulity-stretching sci-fi dramaFast-tracked through the space programme, rising star research scientist Dr Kira Foster [...]
Sun, Apr 28, 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com