Kevin Maher

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Moments before she is disembowelled during one of many cornfield-set murder scenes in this bargain basement horror, supporting character Ronnie (Verity Marks) complains archly: “It’s like we’re in some awful Eighties slasher movie in the corn!” Yeah, but. That’s not how irony works. Declaring your ineptitude does not insulate you from it.

1 day ago | thetimes.com | Kevin Maher

This thoughtful and thorough drama-documentary (more drama, really, than doc) about the functioning of the Nazi high command opens with a gutsy promise that, “This film shows what has never been shown.” It will seemingly lift the lid on the inner workings of the relationship between Hitler (Fritz Karl) and his propagandist-in-chief Joseph Goebbels (Robert Stadlober) and thus demonstrate how Goebbels seduced an entire populace into a “Total War” hate state via slickly made movies, comforting...

1 day ago | thetimes.com | Kevin Maher

This timely documentary about US universities and their antagonistic relationship with the establishment begins as embedded reportage from inside the pro-Palestinian college protests of April 2024. Chief among these is Columbia University’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”, an impromptu settlement of roughly 50 tents on the college lawn that quickly sparked copycat protests on campuses nationwide.

1 day ago | thetimes.com | Kevin Maher

★★★★★Forget Fifty Shades of Grey — this is one shade of “holy shit!” as Isabelle Huppert delivers the performance of her career playing a BDSM-obsessed classical pianist and professor called Erika Kohut. When Erika is not stabbing herself with razor blades in a solo bathroom sex frenzy she’s scaring hunky new student Walter (Benoît Magimel) silly with unthinkable fantasies of degradation and self-harm.

2 days ago | thetimes.com | Kevin Maher

This grisly horror b-movie premiered at last month’s Cannes Film Festival and you can see why. On the surface, and with heavy nods to Wolf Creek, it is about an obnoxious Aussie psychopath and serial murderer called Bruce, played with unhinged intensity by Jai Courtney. Bruce lives on Australia’s heavenly Gold Coast and hires out his decrepit trawler to clueless tourists desperate for a memorable cage-diving experience with the area’s fearsome tiger, bull and great white sharks.