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Peter Bradshaw
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Nasa and The Martian – a cosmic coincidence too good to be true?
The announcement that water has been found on Mars just happens to have emerged at the same time as the Matt Damon film is released. Spooky, or what?
Camping: At two with rude nature
Peter Bradshaw resisted his son’s pleas to go camping for years – he’s more a luxury hotel kind of guy. So how did he cope with slumming it?
Sex on the beach: A brief history of Cannes and erotic cinema
Since the 1960s there has always been plenty of flesh at Cannes. As the red carpet is rolled out, Peter Bradshaw awards his own Palme Phwoar.
The Imitation Game: First-class acting cracks biopic code
Benedict Cumberbatch delivers a sterling Turing – the man who beat Hitler but was destroyed by homophobia.
Birdman: A delirious, crazy showbiz comedy takes flight
Michael Keaton is tremendous as the superhero movie star trying to reinvent himself as a serious actor in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’.
Allen’s Jasmine is the cinephile’s perfume
Peter Bradshaw reviews Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
Movie of the week: Finding The One, again
Elaine Benes meets Tony Soprano in a smart movie titled "Enough Said", about the truimph of being in love while middle aged.
Shades of grey on open seas
Tom Hanks stars as a merchant marine captin in the action thriller, Captain Phillips.
Princess Di’s dark side doesn’t get a look in
Poor Princess Diana: 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she has died another awful death.
Peacock of the ivories
Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra is about the love match between the pianist Liberace and his bisexual young companion Scott Thorson.
Severity and mastery: Defining the film ‘Amour’
The title of Michael Haneke’s "Amour" is a challenge: not ironic, not celebratory, and yet somehow not complicated either.
Movie of the week: Man of Steel
It must be the last act of superhero revisionism: abolishing the word “super”.
Movie of the week: To the Wonder
It’s a fascinating, flawed and vivid piece of work, in some ways a coda or companion piece to "The Tree of Life".
Movie of the week: I’m So Excited
Pedro Almodóvar’s new film is a cheeky comedy about stressy homosexuals in an aeroplane going round and round in the sky without getting anywhere.
Movie of the week: Star Trek into Darkness
JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek installment is as glitzy as his first, but it’s Benedict Cumberbatch as a mysterious new foe that fuels this outing.