Guardian Film Blog

  • Thor: Kenneth Branagh’s film looks the wrong kind of weird | Ben Child
    He was once nominated for a best director Oscar, but while Branagh brings gravitas to Thor, Marvel’s latest superhero project, initial impressions from the new footage suggest an over-reliance on CGI “I just thought it sounded like a weird idea because…
  • Shutter Island’s ending explained | David Cox
    Forget Inception; Leonardo DiCaprio’s previous film, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, confused just as many cinemagoers. David Cox investigates the curious history behind one of the more troubling conclusions in recent cinema Warning: beyond this point,…
  • Clip joint: doors
    Put your best foot forward as we take a stroll round the best doors on film with Kevin Holmes. After you … Few bits of furniture are so rich in symbolic meaning as the door: it can be an opening or an exit, a beginning or an ending. It can protect and…
  • Let the right one win: a Let Me In/Let the Right One In trailer battle
    Given Hollywood’s terrible remake record, are fears about the forthcoming adaptation of this Swedish vampire original justified? . Everyone has their own favourite “bad remake” story. Some like the 1993 Sandra Bullock/Kiefer Sutherland remake of The Vanishing,…
  • The Inception diagram: the shape of dreams | Paul MacInnes
    A graphical rendering of the universe of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster is just what you need to join the in-depth online debates with confidence Since its release 10 days ago, Inception has become the word on everyone’s lips. Or, rather, the word on…

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