Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

INSANE: John boorman - The Real Truth

45 Years Ago, A Polarizing Director Revived His Career With An All-Time Fantasy Epic Classic

John Boorman needed a career comeback. Along came 'Excalibur.'

Inverse

45 Years Later, The Best Lord Of The Rings Movie That Never Was Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

First conceived as a 'Lord of the Rings' adaptation, John Boorman's 'Excalibur' is a cinematic feat unto itself. And it's now available in 4K.

Inverse

Zardoz Is Probably The Strangest Sci-Fi Movie You'll Ever See, And It Stars Sean Connery

The gun is good. The penis...is eeeeviiiilll.

Cinemablend

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I was always more interested in enjoying life than being pretty’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Oscar-nominated star of ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ talks to Patrick Smith about ‘H Is for Hawk’, the Irish attitude to death, toxic scripts, the dangers of overenthusiastic parenting, and actors losing their looks

The Independent UK

‘Clearly the worst film ever made by anyone ever’: inside John Boorman’s horrific Exorcist sequel

After landmark flop The Heretic, the director was considering ‘immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard’ in 1977. But a new documentary premiering at Venice calls for its redemption

The Guardian - UK

Hitting the road with the Dave Clark Five

Letter: Sean Kaye-Smith on a music film that didn’t have a happy ending, in response to an article on Slade’s bid for cinema greatness

The Guardian - UK

Marshall Brickman obituary

Screenwriter, musician and director who won an Oscar, with Woody Allen, for the screenplay of Annie Hall

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Tom Priestley obituary

Film editor who was nominated for an Oscar for Deliverance and sought to promote his father JB Priestley’s writing

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: loads of fun with the supercharged Gladiators reboot

Viewers, ready? It’s the return of the brilliant 90s challenge show. Plus: Big Zuu’s fantastic foodie tour continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Killers of the Flower Moon to The Kitchen: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Martin Scorsese’s 206-minute epic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, and a striking sci-fi that’s part Blade Runner, part District 9 and brims with rage

The Guardian - UK

Michel Ciment, veteran French film critic, dies aged 85

The longtime chief of Positif film magazine started working there in 1968, and was a passionate advocate of cinema until his death

The Guardian - UK

Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans was the only best picture nominee this year actually shot on film. It’s time to stop misnaming movies, says the director John Boorman

The Guardian - UK

Ian Whittaker obituary

Set decorator who worked for Merchant Ivory productions, and with Ken Russell and Ridley Scott

The Guardian - UK

45 years ago, the worst Exorcist sequel almost killed the franchise forever

The Heretic was conceived as nothing more than a “low-budget rehash” heavily reliant on unused footage from The Exorcist.

Inverse

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.