James Mottram
Film Journalist at Freelance
Freelance film journalist. Author of books inc. The Secrets of Tenet, and Jurassic World: The Ultimate Visual History. All views expressed my own.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | James Mottram
Julia Ducournau in Alpha (Image: unknown) The Cannes Film Festival is back – and in some style. The world’s most famous cinematic get-together gets underway next week, with the organisers in bullish mood. “People said cinema was dead during the pandemic, but it is very much alive,” said the festival’s artistic director Thierry Frémaux during his annual press conference last month, when the bulk of the line-up was announced.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | James Mottram
3/5 starsMarvel needs a new team-up. Ever since the hugely successful Avengers movies Infinity War and Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has struggled to replace the superhero collective that included Thor, Hulk and Iron Man. We had Chloé Zhao’s 2021 film Eternals, but that proved to be a non-starter. A promising-looking reboot of The Fantastic Four is coming, but before that we have Thunderbolts* – and no, the asterisk is not a misprint.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | James Mottram
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | James Mottram
“I think it’s been a good year for us,” says Payal Kapadia, director of All We Imagine as Light, with almost disarming modesty. Twelve months ago, her sensitive, subtle, dreamy film about three women hospital workers in Mumbai became the first Indian drama selected for Cannes Film Festival’s main competition in 30 years. It won the Grand Prix, the festival’s second-most prestigious prize after the Palme d’Orand. All We Imagine as Light was not the only Indian film to feature at Cannes in 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
metro.co.uk | James Mottram
There were times when Gary Oldman was a heavy drinker. Now he just plays them. The iconic British actor, 67, jokes that he's in his 'alcoholic period', playing characters like his booze-addled screenwriter in Netflix's Mank and the slovenly, hard-drinking spy Jackson Lamb in Apple TV Plus show Slow Horses. This week he's back in cinemas in Parthenope as John Cheever, the American author who struggled with the bottle for years until he became sober aged 65.
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