‘Predator’ Woody Allen faces renewed abuse claim
Woody Allen’s former adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has spoken out for the first time over claims that Allen sexually assaulted her when she was seven.
Catherine Shoard
No silver lining for films nailed in limbo
Capitol had a fine run of cinematic hits. And then it all went wrong.
Gently swimming upstream
After <em>Chocolat, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? </em>and <em>The Cider House Rules,</em> Lasse Hallström moves on to the fish course.
Closing in on a movie dream
Glenn Close’s new film about a cross-dressing butler has been almost 30 years in the making.
Gender bender unsettles and affects
Glenn Close has been trying to get a film of <em>Albert Nobbs</em>, George Moore’s novella set in the 1800s, off the ground since 1982.
No more business for monkeys
<i>The Rise of the Planet of the Apes</i> blockbuster reboot is out this week. <b>Catherine Shoard</b> revisits the history of primate films.
Rubik’s Cube is a natural blockbuster
As the career of Steven Seagal shows, Hollywood has a track record of breathing life into apparently inanimate objects.
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Faith-based films in viewers’ good books
You don’t need to show Jesus on the cross to make a hit religious film. In fact, you don’t need that much religion at all.
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Big Easy back on celluloid map
Louisiana is the third-most popular state in which to shoot a film in the United States, thanks chiefly to huge tax incentives.
