Old fave returns from the dead
Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci are back in Tim Burton’s goth sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, that shines with his striking visual style and dry wit.
Stephen Romei
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What women really want — sexual fantasies revealed
For many women, the sex they have in their heads may be more stimulating than the physical nuts and bolts of any coupling, no matter how hot.
From track to film star: Champion horse Winx stars in new documentary
Champion Australian racehorse Winx always had showbusiness in her veins. And so it has proven, with the advent of a new film.
Teens glow in the dark in this star-studded yet unconventional film
Emma Stone and her comedian husband produce a new drama-horror that features a colourful cast including Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and explores the awkwardness of teenage sexuality.
In search of lost romance: a cold yet beautiful Icelandic drama
‘Touch’ explores lost love across two timeframes on opposite sides of the world, as a man comes to terms with the loneliness of the Covid pandemic.
Parenting a dad, chasing a panther
This charming New Zealand film is about absent fathers, precocious children, reverse parenting, magic and a mythical (or maybe real) black panther.
When our mortal bodies die, do our souls live on?
Soul is a word we use quite casually. You might be the ‘life and soul of the party’, meet your ‘soulmate’, or quits a ‘soul-destroying’ job. But defining the soul is a far more serious affair.
The verdict on Alien: Romulus? It’s fast-paced, dramatic … and gruesome
Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Alvarez has no interest in protecting lead characters in this film, the seventh instament in the Alien franchise. Contrary to the famous tagline, in space their screams are heard.
The experts said ‘his life is finished’. His parents were having none of it
With the Paris Olympics drawing to a close, Matt Formston’s story is a reminder of a truth in sport, and life in general. ‘People will tell you that you can’t do something,’ he says. ‘But if you try you can.’
The force of nature who stood behind Jacques Chirac
This film does not bill itself as a true-to-life account of the Chiracs. But I supect it is a fiction that contains some age-old truths.
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