Kevin Maher

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Donald Hutera |Kevin Maher |Richard Morrison |Dominic Maxwell

Theatre, by Clive DavisDear EnglandUpdated to take account of the end of Gareth Southgate’s tenure as England football manager, James Graham’s love letter to the beautiful game has enticed a new audience into the theatre. A national tour awaits in the autumn. The Lowry, Salford, to Jun 29, thelowry.comHerculesThe Disney megabucks machine recycles the jaunty animated film that captivated young audiences nearly 30 years ago.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Kevin Maher

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.

3 weeks 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...

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.