Connoisseurs of power, gossip, reputation and behaviour must surely be relishing the extraordinary face-off at this year’s Oscar ceremony.
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/ 5 February 2010
em>Bright Star</em> is not so much a criticism of Keats’s poetry as of his life, in fact all of our lives.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Wild Things</i>
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/ 23 December 2009
Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror and documentaries went through a golden age. Peter Bradshaw reviews the decade.
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/ 27 November 2009
Not quite the movie of the week either: Peter Bradshaw reviews <em>The Twilight Saga: New Moon</em>.
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/ 23 October 2009
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews Quinton Tarantino’s latest film, <em>Inglourious Basterds</em>
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews ‘Looking for Eric’
The Encounters Documentary Film Festival opens in Cape Town this week. Peter Bradshaw gives a rundown of two of the more compelling offerings.
Peter Bradshaw reviews <em>Waltz with Bashir</em> by director Ari Folman.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <em>State of Play</em>
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Blindness</i>, a film by Fernando Merelles.
DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Man on Wire</i>, a documentary on French highwire artiste, Phillippe Petit.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days</i>, a masterpiece of a film by Cristian Mungiu.
COMEDY OF THE WEEK: The neurotic and ego-driven world of the Academy Awards with <i>For Your Consideration</i>. Peter Bradshaw has more
<b>BLOCKBUSTER OF THE WEEK</b>: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Be Kind Rewind</i>, a film by Michael Gondry.
<b>BLOCKBUSTER OF THE WEEK</b>: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull</i>.
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/ 21 February 2008
<b>MUSICAL OF THE WEEK:</b> Peter Bradshaw reviews Tim Burton’s <i>Sweeney Todd</i>, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
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/ 25 January 2008
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Arthur and the Invisibles</i>, <i>The Bucket List</i>, <i>Gone Baby Gone</i> and more.
Peter Bradshaw pays tribute to the late Ingmar Bergman.
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/ 26 January 2007
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Whatever its box-office success, Mel Gibson’s latest offfering <i>Apocalypto</i> may not find a chorus of approval, writes Peter Bradshaw.
In parallel with its own exponential growth, my fascination with <i>YouTube.com</i> has galloped into a raging obsession. Whole evenings, theoretically dedicated to writing, have been hijacked by a terrible need to click away from the Microsoft Word document, on to the internet browser, and from there the lure of YouTube is irresistible, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 30 October 2006
<b>Movie of the week:</b> <i>My Big Fat Greek Wedding</i> is the biggest indie smash since <i>The Blair Witch Project</i>, writes Peter Bradshaw.
The film version of <i>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i> struggles to live up to Douglas Adams’s masterpiece, writes Peter Bradshaw.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK: </b> The watchable and well-acted biopic, <i>Kinsey</i> refers to the life and times of the 1940s sexologist Alfred Kinsey who transformed the art of love into the science of sexuality. Peter Bradshaw reviews.
The trouble with "being cool" is, of course, the ever-present risk of overdoing it, of turning too cool for school, a self-conscious poser, a pain to be around. Peter Bradshaw looks at John Travolta’s new movie, <i>Be Cool.</i>
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/ 18 February 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Nominated for best picture, <i>Sideways</i> is light years ahead of the preening, pumped-up competitors in this category. Peter Bradshaw explains why.
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/ 15 November 2002
In her recent letter to the Mail & Guardian, the Democratic Alliance’s Helen Zille repeatedly mentions the "racial nationalist transformation" she believes is under way in South Africa at the hands of the African National Congress government. She attempts to defend the Democratic Party’s 1999 "fight back" campaign.
Television comedian Ali G has taken to the big screen — will he keep his legions of fans? Very probably, writes Peter Bradshaw.
<b>WAR MOVIES OF THE WEEK</b>
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/ 15 February 2002
<b>LOW-BUDGET MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>On the Edge</i> is a movie built on performances, and those of its youthful leads are as straightforward as they are affecting, writes Peter Bradshaw.