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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
There’s a great deal of warmth both in and out of the kitchen in Netflix’s remarkably charming new food comedy Nonnas, a simple yet satisfying fact-based crowd-pleaser landing just in time for Mother’s Day across many countries in the world. It’ll make for an easy post-lunch choice for families gathering this weekend, providing the sort of mechanically proficient pleasures that used to be far more common back in the 80s or 90s.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Director James Foley, whose credits included Glengarry Glen Ross and the Fifty Shades sequels, has died aged 71. According to the Hollywood Reporter, his death was confirmed by his representative who said he died “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a years-long struggle with brain cancer”. His career was marked by versatility, from music videos with Madonna to commercial multiplex thrillers to talky TV dramas to erotic romances.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
One would be forgiven for assuming there was a lot more to early summer slasher Clown in a Cornfield other than, well, a clown in a cornfield.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
The Who has announced a final farewell tour of the US and Canada. The British rock band, who played their first American concerts back in 1967, will kick off The Song is Over tour in August in Florida. The tour will go on to include dates in locations including New York, Toronto and Seattle before ending in Las Vegas. It has been described as a “bittersweet final tour of the US and Canada as a truly grand finale of their illustrious six-decade career”.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
In Summer of 69, a comedy that premiered at SXSW in March, poor Bryan Adams doesn’t even get a mention. Rather than coasting on the nostalgia summoned by his 1985 hit, the title is instead a reference to the top-and-tail sex position (Adams has claimed, much to the annoyance of his co-writer, that the song was also referring to the same thing).
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Boardwalk Empire actor Michael Pitt has been arrested on sexual assault and domestic violence charges. According to the New York Post and Variety, the 44-year-old has been accused of multiple assaults by an ex-girlfriend stemming from four incidents taking place between 2020 and 2021. She alleges that Pitt sexually assaulted and attacked her with a cinderblock and a wooden plank at the actor’s Bushwick home. He is also accused of strangling her.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: happy family moves into dream home but discovers it’s actually a nightmare. It’s a setup so numbingly common that it’s started to border on parody. From smug moving day pizza on the box-strewn floor to hearing louder and louder bumps in the night to arguing over when and how to leave, it’s a descent that’s propped up far too many genre films.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
‘My inbox is filled with the most horrible ways people can die,” says Craig Perry, the producer – or, as he would prefer, “curator” – of the Final Destination franchise. Over 25 years, his films have punctured, skewered, crushed, flattened and decapitated men, women and children in a series of horrifying “accidents” and Perry has been a witness to them all. His friends clearly want him to witness many more.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
George Clooney and Nicole Scherzinger have been nominated for their first Tonys this year while Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal have been snubbed. The Oscar-winning actor was included in the leading actor in a play category for Good Night and Good Luck, an adaptation of the 2005 film which he also starred in and directed. The show received five nominations in total.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt aim for awards glory in the first trailer for fact-based sports drama The Smashing Machine. The wrestler-turned-actor plays the MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the film inspired by the 2002 documentary with the same name. Kerr won multiple awards and medals in his career and also struggled with substance abuse. The film also explores his relationship with his then girlfriend, played by Emily Blunt. The pair previously starred in Disney adventure Jungle Cruise.
