Kung Fu Panda 4 review – Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit
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by Cath Clarke
18m ago
The lead pair make a brilliant double act, but the franchise has run out of its signature sweetness and charm The cuddly kung fu master is back. Jack Black returns as dumpling-loving panda Po, the unlikeliest of lean, mean fightin’ machines. It’s been eight years since Kung Fu Panda 3, and on the evidence here, the delay can’t be put down to KFP4 being a labour of love, the product of animation studio DreamWorks’ A team pouring in enormous amounts of effort. It’s a hurricane of slapstick (some of it in fact very funny) and age-appropriate energetic fight scenes, but lacks the sweetness and cha ..read more
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‘Rental places will surge back’: readers on the fight to preserve physical media
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by Guardian readers
18m ago
Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy ..read more
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus review – a stark, emotional finale from master musician
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by Leslie Felperin
18m ago
In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet it’s a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before he’d die of cancer. There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamot ..read more
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Martin Scorsese to host and produce religious docuseries for Fox News
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by Benjamin Lee
18m ago
Oscar-winning director teaming up with conservative news channel’s streaming service for new series about saints The Oscar-winning film-maker Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Fox News for a new docuseries. The director, who recently scored his 16th Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon, is set to host and produce a series for the conservative channel’s streaming service Fox Nation ..read more
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Kinds of Kindness: first trailer released for Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s next film
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by Catherine Shoard
18m ago
Lanthimos’s latest film also stars Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Poor Things’s Willem Dafoe Less than three weeks after Poor Things took four Oscars, including best actress for Emma Stone, the trailer for their new film has been released. According to its official synopsis, Kinds of Kindness, which was shot in New Orleans in late 2022, is a “triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone wit ..read more
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Tilda Swinton bedtime story among Cinema for Gaza auction lots
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by Catherine Shoard
18m ago
Chance to make porridge with Josh O’Connor or be serenaded by Olly Alexander also up for grabs in inaugural online auction to support Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza Directors Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg, as well as the cast of shows including Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, are among British film and TV creatives donating lots to a new auction to crowdfund for humanitarian relief in Gaza. Leigh has given a signed poster of the original 1977 theatre production of Abigail’s Party, while Loach provides signed copies of the poster and script of his latest film, The Old ..read more
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The Origin of Evil review – classy comedy-thriller with shades of Succession and Knives Out
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by Cath Clarke
18m ago
Call My Agent’s Laure Calamy stars as a scheming factory worker with designs on a mega-rich fortune in this classy feast of backstabbing, double cross and venal greed Succession meets Knives Out in this comedy-thriller directed by Sébastien Marnier in what is an extremely French comic style: tongue-in-cheek, a little frothy, tiptoeing close to camp. It stars Call My Agent’s brilliant Laure Calamy as a scheming factory worker who wheedles her way into a dysfunctional mega-rich family. Calamy is often cast as likable, relatable women but here she does a very convincing Isabelle Huppert (circa he ..read more
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Shameless, silly and amoral: the new wave of horny lesbian cinema
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by Daisy Jones
18m ago
Until recently, sapphic romances generally meant furtive nods in a corset. Today’s queer offerings are fun, unbuttoned – and climate-appropriate There’s a scene towards the end of Rose Glass’s romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding in which the leads, Lou (Kristen Stewart) and Jackie (Katy M O’Brian), have a screaming match on a tennis court. “I wish I never met you!” shrieks Jackie, blasting bullets into the sky. Two minutes later they’re embracing. “What’s wrong with me?” she asks. “There is absolutely nothing wrong with you,” Lou whispers to her murderous girlfriend, greased hair framing her f ..read more
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The Sweet East review – high-school student’s eccentric road trip up and down the coast
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by Leslie Felperin
18m ago
A teenage girl meets all manner of extremists, hipsters and hoodlums in Sean Price Williams’ amusing, contemporary adventure High-school student Lillian (Talia Ryder) gets separated from her classmates and chaperones at a pizza parlour during a school trip to Washington DC because a deranged shooter is convinced paedophiles are operating out of its basement. And so begins an adventure up and back down the eastern seaboard, taking Lillian from her native South Carolina up through the nation’s capital, to New York City, Vermont and beyond, meeting all manner of eccentrics, extremists, hipsters a ..read more
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STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces review – intimate portrait of a comedy legend
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by Peter Bradshaw
18m ago
From his childhood job in Disneyland and huge standup success to movie stardom and later life career as a dry humorist this is a fascinating insight into a wild and crazy career Comedian Steve Martin now comes as close as he’s ever going to get to opening up about his life, his thoughts and his feelings in this absorbingly detailed two-part Apple documentary by director Morgan Neville. Part one is conventionally autobiographical, with archive clips and family photos and Martin’s own sonorous, ironic voiceover covering his painful childhood: failing to please his strict dad and then the extraor ..read more
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