Tagged Ben Whishaw

This film was previously reviewed in February 2020 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Ben Whishaw is certainly one of the finest actors of his generation, and Aneil Karia’s Surge is a film which allows...

Expect Ben Whishaw to be a familiar face on our cinema screens this year. He’s just appeared as the villainous Uriah Heep in Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, he’s reprising Q...

Armando Iannucci isn't known for his forgiving touch when it comes to social commentary. But for this almost aggressively charming Dickens adaptation he slips off the knuckledusters and takes a noticeably...

While not technically part of the trend for live-action Disney remakes, Mary Poppins Returns has a symmetry with the 1964 film that is hard to miss. There’s Americans playing cockneys, children stepping into...

Lin-Manuel Miranda might be the closest thing the arts industry has to a Renaissance man. While still without an Oscar, the Hamilton writer/composer/singer/actor has the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony (and MacArthur...

In the time between the release of the sublime first Paddington film in 2014 and the debut of its sequel this year, the UK has become a darker place. Brexit and isolationist xenophobia hang heavy in the air,...

With Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first film in J.K. Rowling’s fledgling magiverse, hitting cinema screens this week, Warner Bros. have capitalised on the publicity with two casting...

We’ve come a long way since the days of Lili Elbe and Gerde Wegener. Transgender issues that made chaos of their lives now have mainstream acceptance, but Hooper’s direction is refreshingly frank about how...

Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea is nothing that we haven’t seen before, least of all from the man himself – moral characters, personality clashes, a dramatic score and attempts to survive the...

The Lobster delicately balances humour and brutality to tell a brilliantly absurd, yet altogether touching story. The largely matter-of-fact cinematography is beautifully offset by scenes in dramatic slow...

The Zero Theorem is unmistakably a Terry Gilliam film, for better or worse. He has created a deliciously chaotic dystopia, saturated with colour and adverts, but his ramshackle directing threatens to disengage...