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Issues raised by cinema

11 September 2020

  • Back for more … the audience take their seats for Tenet at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, London.

    I'm Covid vulnerable: dare I do my bit to save our cinemas?

    Britain’s beleaguered picture palaces desperately need bums back on seats. But some filmgoers have to consider the risks more than others

12 February 2020

  • Female directors deserve to be recognised on merit ... Greta Gerwig at the Oscars on Sunday.

    A female director Oscar? Three ways to fix film awards season

    From Netflix-only own ceremony to a big Baftas shakeup, here are three bold steps to right the wrongs highlighted by this year’s mistakes

30 January 2020

  • This image released by A24 films shows Zhao Shuzhen, left, and Awkwafina in a scene from “The Farewell.” Awkwafina won a Globe earlier this month for “The Farewell,” it was a proud moment for Asian Americans in Hollywood _ the first win by an actress of Asian descent in the lead category. There was much hope for an Oscar nod, but alas, it was not to be; in fact the much-admired film was shut out. (Casi Moss/A24 via AP)

    No politics please, we're Oscar contenders

    This season’s awards movies demonstrate that cinema is dodging today’s pressing issues in favour of anodyne distraction

27 November 2019

  • Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

    A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a life-enhancing 60s sensation, is about to enrapture a new generation of filmgoers

18 June 2018

  • Genetic curse … Milly Shapiro and Toni Collette in Hereditary.

    Evil spirit that haunts scary movie Hereditary is the gene genie

    David Cox
    Ari Aster’s horror triumph feeds off suppressed fear that we cannot escape our biological fate – leaving audiences unnerved

26 July 2017

  • A scene from Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

    Bloodless, boring and empty: Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk left me cold

    David Cox
    Nolan’s celebrated story of the evacuation at Dunkirk trades guts and glory for a 12A airbrushed rendering of history. The true story is much more complex – and moving

25 February 2017

  • Alex Hibbert in Moonlight.

    Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought

    With Moonlight, Hidden Figures and Fences in the running, Hollywood appears to have responded positively to last year’s protests. But is it just lip service? And could measures to promote diversity go too far?

23 February 2017

  • La la land film still with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone: Photo Lionsgate

    La La Land’s inevitable Oscars win is a disaster for Hollywood – and for us

    David Cox
    This year’s other best picture nominees have heart, soul and humanity. Damien Chazelle’s tawdry, dispiriting confection has none – it’s the tale of two narcissists who sacrifice love for self-interest

10 January 2017

  • Ken Loach celebrates after being awarded the Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake

    Why British Baftas frontrunner I, Daniel Blake may betray its own cause

    Ken Loach’s drama leads the field of homegrown contenders at next month’s awards. But does its attack on the way welfare works undermine the principles on which the system depends?

11 July 2016

  • Going under … Kate Moss in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie inadvertently charts the death of top-down celebrity

    David Cox
    Eddy and Pats – plus the 60 stars eager to supply cameos – herald the demise of a glittering cultural hegemony. Fashionistas and PRs are now slaves to public taste, their slogans drowned out by public opinion

25 April 2016

  • Avengers, disassemble! … new Marvel film Captain America: Civil War.

    Captain America: Civil War shows why superheroes shouldn’t team up

    David Cox
    Superman and Batman can only seem to summon their superpowers en masse. But I’ll take a Bourne or Bond over a pack of superheroes any day

26 February 2016

  • Idris Elba<br>Actor Idris Elba poses for photographers upon arrival at the BAFTA 2016 film awards at the Royal Opera House in London, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

    #OscarsSoWhite: who is really to blame for the Oscars' lack of diversity?

    Voter prejudice is shouldering much of the blame for the Academy Awards’ lack of diversity. But who is really responsible?

1 February 2016

  • Christian Bale<br>FILE - In this file image released by Paramount Pictures, Christian Bale appears in a scene from "The Big Short." Star-studded financial crisis comedy "The Big Short" gained some much-need Oscar equity Saturday night, Jan. 23, 2016, receiving the Producers Guild of America's highest film award at a ceremony in Los Angeles. (Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount Pictures via AP, File)

    The Big Short: should you seek your fortune in this film?

    Filmgoers who try to pursue Michael Burry’s route to wealth, as portrayed in Adam McKay’s Oscars frontrunner, might end up morally and financially bankrupt

7 December 2015

  • (FILES) - A file picture taken on October 28, 2015 shows British actor Daniel Craig posing for photographers at a photocall for the new James Bond film 'Spectre' in Berlin. It's the country that gave the world the Kama Sutra, but India's notoriously prudish film board has ruled that long kissing scenes in the new James Bond movie "Spectre" are not suitable for Indian audiences. The Mumbai-based Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has reined in the fictional British spy's famously lusty romantic life by cutting the length of two passionate embrace scenes, its chairperson told AFP. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ /FILESTOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images

    How James Bond rescued filmgoers from the Spectre of Americanisation

    In avoiding the clutches of American English in his latest outing, 007 lands a lexical blow that keeps the British end up. But is there a wider agenda at work?

13 April 2015

  • Dark Horse

    Why 'Slumnag Millionaire' movie Dark Horse is a political object lesson

    David Cox
    An unlikely Welsh villagers’ project to train a racehorse pits the values of the left against the doctrines of the right. But though this documentary may look like Pride, its moral is not in lockstep

5 February 2015

  • Screenshots from films The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and The Interview

    Was this the year cinema chickened out?

    Though Bafta’s winners can expect effusive acclaim on Sunday night, the current awards fare is toothless. Over the past year, cinema has lost its social and political nerve and industry and audiences alike are opting for comfort food. How did we let this happen?

6 October 2014

  • More deadly than the male … Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl.

    Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse

    David Cox
    Gillian Flynn feels both book and film advance the female cause. Yet Rosamund Pike’s Amy may harm perceptions of women, although not for the reasons you might expect

15 September 2014

  • A scene from The Riot Club

    The Riot Club lays bare our secret love of the posh boys

    David Cox: A would-be indictment of our arrogantly entitled elite hints instead at why privilege continues to be indulged

14 November 2013

  • Saving Mr Banks

    Why we force film-makers to fake it

    Cinema takes liberties with the lives, work and reputations of real people – because that's what audiences ask for, says David Cox

4 November 2013

  • Catholic guilt … Judi Dench in Philomena.

    Philomena: a rare portrayal of the Catholic Church's failings

    David Cox: Stephen Frears's film about an Irish woman, played by Judi Dench, who is trying to trace the child that was taken from her reveals the sins and the secret strength of the religion

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