BrillFilms

Brill Films – Film News, Reviews & Comment

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • News
    • Celebrity
    • Industry
    • Technology
    • Festivals
    • Obituary
  • Books
  • Reviews
  • World
  • Doc
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Family
  • Action
  • Horror
  • Thriller
  • SciFi
  • Amimation

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Never Let Go review – Halle Berry shoulders the mother lode in sinuous survivalist horror

French genre specialist Alexandre Aja’s chiller builds up a palpable sense of menace but fumbles the last act

The Substance is gory – but the real body horror is that 70% of women dislike the size of their breasts

Demi Moore’s gory satire The Substance made me think about self-image, bodily autonomy – and our worrying obsession with cosmetic surgery, writes Emma Beddington

‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights

Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has caused a stir with her project to remake Brontë’s classic – but the novel has been provocative for more than 170 years

Wolfs review – forgettable Clooney-Pitt vehicle soon runs out of gas

Even the combined charm of its two leads cannot elevate this one-joke comedy-thriller about two underworld fixers double-booked on a job

Will & Harper review – Will Ferrell hits the road with a newly transitioned pal

Josh Greenbaum funny and poignant documentary follows the comedian and his old friend across the US in a likable portrait that never quite rings true

My Old Ass review – time-bending coming-of-age comedy with real heart and depth

Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza are a winning duo playing their present and future selves in Megan Park’s silly but surprisingly satisfying film

‘It has felt so bizarre’: Industry’s Harry Lawtey on coping with sudden fame

It’s quite a leap for a ‘fragile, sensitive kid’ to find himself starring in a Hollywood action movie. After the huge success of Industry and his new part in Joker, Harry Lawtey reveals why being in denial is the only way he can make sense of it

Megalopolis review – Francis Ford Coppola’s epic fail

The storied director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now swings for the fences with a lavish-looking but muddled and empty tale of thwarted ambition

Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’

She thought acting was ‘silly’, despite having A-list sisters. Her interests lay in dance, accountancy, agriculture, construction. Here she explains how she conquered her anxiety and embraced being a Hollywood star

Sunday with Will Poulter: ‘I leave the cooking to my mum, but we’ll do the dishes’

The actor talks about legendary family roasts, sun-worshipping in London and watching Doncaster Rovers and Arsenal, the two giants of football

Dame Maggie Smith: ‘the complete actor’

The former cabaret star, who died on Friday aged 89, dazzled in everything from Shakespeare to Harry Potter

The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan impresses in a refreshingly unconventional recovery drama

The actor excels as an alcoholic who returns to Orkney in Nora Fingscheidt’s fine adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir

‘People say, just get surgery, and I’m like: Bruh, this is after surgery’

Cosmetic surgery fuels the fallacy that looks bring happiness. But what is it like to live with a striking visible difference? The star of a new film about the subject shares his real-life experiences

Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

Adaptation of Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross

Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

The divisive body horror about ageing has won plaudits for star Demi Moore yet some remain unconvinced of its depth

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

  • ‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie
  • ‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie
  • ‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie
  • Bel review – the powerful life force and haunting absence of a traumatised singer-songwriter
  • The Black Garden review – haunting study of growing up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Moritz de Hadeln obituary
  • Tom Cruise, Olivia Colman and the return of Rocky: the best films of autumn 2026
  • Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?
  • From The Dog Stars to Erykah Badu: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Rob Reiner’s son Jake gives first interview after parents’ deaths: ‘I will never understand why this happened’
  • ‘I don’t care if I look good’: French heartthrob Louis Garrel on fashion, fatherhood and his radically dorky new role
  • Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash
  • Harvest to The Whisper Man: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning
  • The Whisper Man review – Robert De Niro sleepwalks through silly Netflix potboiler
  • ‘It’s the story of what happens when the music stops’: bringing tormented jazz legend Bill Evans to life
  • The Secret Woman review – Claes Bang is dastardly gaslighter in Danish amnesia thriller
  • Actor Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime and Eeyore, dies aged 85
  • Tim Curry obituary
  • Robert Carlyle: ‘When we did The Full Monty strip, the reaction from the crowd was terrifying’
  • Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?
  • ‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles
  • Idiots review – throwback bro comedy is an entertaining summer seat-filler
  • Share your tributes and memories of Tim Curry
  • Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
  • The Wreck review – scuba drama about siblings under pressure
  • Judge awards Blake Lively $400,000 in legal fees in Justin Baldoni case
  • Farewell, Dr Frank-N-Furter: why Tim Curry’s Rocky Horror Show will go on
  • Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
  • Rupert Grint to reprise role of Ron Weasley in Harry Potter stage show

Contact www.brillfilms.com   Terms of Use