Ben Brewster is a filmmaker, critic, screenwriter, and actor whose work sits at the intersection of film culture, craft analysis, and storytelling. He is a movie list contributing writer at Collider ...

Solo is an odd film. Starring Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover as the younger Han and Lando, it was greenlit because of a single scene: one where Han is given his surname by an Imperial when he ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. I have been writing this newsletter, most weeks, for more than 10 years now. I wouldn’t ...

Couple-swapping dramas had their heyday during the sexual revolution, said David Sexton in The New Statesman. And even the most famous of them, such as 1969’s “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”, look like ...

They may have been married for over 20 years, but Emmerdale stars Jeff Hordley and Zoe Henry haven't shared the screen too often. That's set to change, however, as an "emotional" scene involving the ...

Confess, Fletch was there when I needed it the most. In the winter of 2023, in the throes of a funk that wouldn’t fully lift until the middle of summer, I paid a visit to one of my oldest and dearest ...

I was among the members of the press invited to a trailer launch event last week for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film, Digger, starring Tom Cruise. Billed as “a comedy of catastrophic ...

The comedian and director talks about the State, making his first film in eight years, and the challenges of creating original comedy in Hollywood’s bleak landscape. There are two ways to describe ...

Italy's Indiana Production, part of pan-European studio Vuelta Group, is taking its ambitions as the country’s comedy leader to the next level. The Milan-based company is setting up a multi-pronged ...

The latest installment in the long-running horror franchise, first created by Sam Raimi with his original 1981 classic, follows a family on the brink of carnage after Will (George Pullar) dies in a ...

Alok Nath, Bollywood's "babuji," celebrates birthday. Early career included bold romantic roles. Appeared in films like "Gandhi" and "Kamagni." Whenever Bollywood talks about a cultured father, an ...