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 →

Again Once Again review – elegant meditation on the pains of motherhood

This engaging film unpicks the challenges faced by a young mother trying to reconnect with the life she had before her son’s birth

Dads review – stars report from the frontline of fatherhood

Actor Bryce Dallas Howard’s documentary mixes the platitudinous with the genuinely moving as she grills Hollywood celebrities and other fathers

To Kid Or Not to Kid review – why women choose to be childless

Director Maxine Trump’s heartfelt documentary explores the pressures and prejudices facing women who do not want to be mothers

Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘Dads changing diapers is still somehow revolutionary’

The actor has made a film about fathers – including her own, director Ron. She talks about the racist role that caused ‘a disturbance’ in her soul – and why working with Lars von Trier gave her acne

‘The older I get, the less I fear’: meet the Italian Larry David

A decade after his two much-loved comedies about the vicissitudes of ageing, director Gianni Di Gregorio explains why, against his own expectations, he had to make another

How would a five-year-old change James Bond’s life?

According to a new report, No Time to Die sees Daniel Craig’s spy discovering he has a young child. Are CBeebies and car chases ever really compatible?

Actor Monica Dolan: Losing my brother to Covid-19 is part of a global story

The star of the film Days of the Bagnold Summer talks about how the death of her brother came while she was preparing to play a bereaved woman

Come-hither lions and sleazy owls: when Disney classics are difficult

I thought the Disney+ archive of classic films was a perfect lockdown diversion for my kids – until I rewatched them

The Family Way review – potent portrait of sex in the swinging 60s

In this rereleased comic drama, Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett play a couple plagued by a wedding-night disaster and the neighbours’ wagging tongues

Sense and social distancing: ‘Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen’s heroines’

Unrequited lust, hours indoors with family and the need for a turn around the parlour are classic period tropes – now we’re all living Pride and Prejudice

Lockdown watch: Asif Kapadia on setting his kids Hitchcock essays

The Diego Maradona and Amy director gorges on spaghetti western, succumbs to Disney+ ... but steers clear of disaster flicks

The Easy Bit review – how men get to grips with IVF

This well-intentioned documentary about the first step in fertility treatment has moments of humour but is too emotionally hectoring

‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+

The long read: Disney’s new streaming service arrived in the UK just as the coronavirus lockdown kicked in. With so many hours to fill, it seemed like a sensible investment. Pretty soon, it was infiltrating my every waking hour

Circus of Books review – tender doc about family life and gay porn

An affectionate and absorbing documentary from film-maker Rachel Mason about her devout parents, who ran a famous adult bookstore in early-80s LA

Tigertail review – dreams, regrets and a life built on a lie

A young Taiwanese man faces an agonising choice when offered a new life in the US in this heartfelt drama from a writer of Parks and Recreation

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

  • O what a tangled web: unweaving the weirdest fan rumours surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day
  • ‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime
  • Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
  • Enola Holmes 3 to Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters
  • Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry
  • The Mission review – a surgeon saves lives in war-torn Gaza in a visceral portrait of human endurance
  • Pride review – solidarity between gay activists and miners in a magnificent musical
  • Little Brother review – Netflix comedy is neither weird or funny enough for star Eric André
  • Can a $290m film studio on a former cow paddock lure Hollywood to Perth?
  • ‘Our characters like to be naughty’: the makers of the Nirvanna mockumentary on illegal skydiving, taboo-breaking and time travel
  • Jackass: Best and Last review – kings of gross-out comedy’s final, funny farewell
  • Puppy eyes, sad hair and a big boom box: John Cusack films – ranked!
  • A Better Tomorrow review – firefights aplenty and unapologetic melodrama in John Woo’s blood-drizzled crime classic
  • Chris and Martina: The Final Set review – tennis titans discuss their deep bond and intense rivalry
  • The Furious review – dial-shifting dadsploitation mayhem as father goes in search of kidnapped daughter
  • Blue Heron review – sombre and sophisticated portrait of childhood trauma in 1990s Canada
  • Bello! Why gen Alpha subconsciously speaks the language of the Minions
  • Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega and Stephen Fry among new invited Oscar voters
  • Supergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstory
  • Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical
  • The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy
  • Dear You review – enjoyable Chinese romdram crosses generations as it tracks down a missing husband
  • Hold the Fort review – gory goings-on at the neighbours association get-together
  • Deja viewing: the return of the cheapo compilation film
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
  • How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
  • Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
  • ‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio

Contact www.brillfilms.com   Terms of Use