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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 3d

Here is Catherine Shoard’s interview with Diane Keaton from 2023: www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ma...

‘God, life is so strange’: Diane Keaton interviewed in 2023 on dogs, doors, wine and why she’s ‘really fancy’

The Oscar-winning actor is back for the Book Club sequel. But what she really wants to talk about is big cars, her love for Woody Allen – and her unexpected passion

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 3d

Some thoughts on the late Diane Keaton: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

An ethereally self-aware comedy genius: the loss of Diane Keaton is devastating | Peter Bradshaw

America’s sweetheart was so much more than that: an actor of astonishing singularity and freshness who starred in the very best films of the past century

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story (dir. Yemi Bamiro) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc... #LFF #LFF2025

Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game-changing photographer

Brathwaite’s empowering images of African Americans in the 1960s gave a new generation a fresh template for representation, brilliantly honoured here

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of Good Boy (dir. Jan Komasa) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc... #LFF #LFF2025

Good Boy review – Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough turn nasty in Kubrickian absurdist nightmare

London film festival: Jan Komasa’s bracingly wicked tale follows a couple who plan to retrain an delinquent teen with a brutal regimen

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of John Candy: I Like Me (dir. Colin Hanks) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

John Candy: I Like Me review – starry but treacly tribute to comedy legend

The much loved actor has no shortage of celebrity fans, but this documentary avoids his more complex traits in favour of his sweet-natured on-screen person

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of Tron: Ares (dir. Joachim Rønning) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi into shape

Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of The Woman In Cabin 10 (dir. Simon Stone) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

The Woman in Cabin 10 review – silliness of Keira Knightley megayacht thriller tips it overboard

Keira Knightley is twice dunked in the briny as she tries to uncover what’s going on aboard Guy Pearce’s boat in this soggy Agatha-Christie-ish mystery

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of The Perfect Neighbor (dir. Geeta Gandbhir) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

The Perfect Neighbor review – a notorious shooting through the eye of a Florida cop’s body-cam

Geeta Gandbhir’s study of the Ajike Owens killing turns police footage into a devastating lens on fear, race and a nation fatally addicted to firearms

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of I Swear (dir. Kirk Jones) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 5d

My review of Plainclothes (dir. Carmen Emmi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Plainclothes review – shame and anxiety in entrapment yarn about a gay cop going undercover

A quietly observed New York police story explores desire, friendship and the pressures of identity – though its impact is undercut by an implausible final twist

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d

My vlog on How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/JMgLvzdYON8?...

PETER BRADSHAW reviews HOW ARE YOU? IT’S ALAN (PARTRIDGE)

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 6d

My vlog on Kirk Jones’s I Swear is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/uSivRunLmJU?...

PETER BRADSHAW reviews I SWEAR

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 8d

Really looking forward to reading from The Body In The Mobile Library next Thursday at the Cork International Short Story Festival with @paul_mc_veigh - click here for details: www.corkshortstory.net/thursday.html

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)

Urchin review – Harris Dickinson’s homelessness drama is a terrific directorial debut

The Triangle of Sadness and Babygirl actor has made a strong, singular and sometimes surreal first film behind the camera, with a superb central turn from Frank Dillane

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of The Severed Sun (dir. Dean Puckett) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

The Severed Sun review – folk-horror nightmare that harks back to The Crucible

A widow with an ungodly secret challenges the patriarchal abuse of an oppressive religious community in Dean Puckett’s English chiller

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of Mr Blake At Your Service (dir. Gilles Legardinier) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Mr Blake at Your Service review – John Malkovich does worst French accent ever in baffling comedy misfire

Gilles Legardinier’s broad dramedy set in a chateau, co-starring Fanny Ardant and Émilie Dequenne, is an ordeal to watch. Sacré bleu!

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight (dir. Embeth Davidtz) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight review – heartfelt child’s-eye view of last days of Rhodesia

Embeth Davidtz stars and directs, with outstanding performances from Zikhona Bali and seven-year-old Lexi Venter as Bobo as white minority rule ends

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of the re-release of The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) (dir. Terence Fisher) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done

Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute conviction

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of the re-release of GoldenEye (1995) (dir. Martin Campbell) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

GoldenEye review – Pierce Brosnan’s ‘sexist, misogynist dinosaur’ makes his Bond movie debut

The 1995 spy adventure introduced Brosnan as 007 and Judi Dench as M – blending high-octane action with a cheeky post-Soviet self-awareness

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of A House Of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice this summer and gets its UK release today)

A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 12d

My review of The Smashing Machine (dir. Benny Safdie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice this summer and gets its UK release today)

The Smashing Machine review – Dwayne Johnson only possible casting as crisis-riddled UFC champ Mark Kerr

Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he loses

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 15d

Great piece by Nathaniel Rich in the New York Review Of Books on Percival Lowell - the eccentric astronomer who thought he’d discovered life on Mars and accidentally invented science fiction www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Mars Is Heaven! | Nathaniel Rich

Percival Lowell was convinced that he had found proof of life on Mars, but his real achievement was to make Americans dream of a future there.

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 15d

How long before Tilly Norwood writes her first cosy crime novel?

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 19d

My review of Invention (dir. Courtney Stephens) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Invention review – meta indie docu-fiction has a deadpan take on truth and healing

A woman inherits the patent for a healing machine from her quack father in this exploration of grief, in which a number of low budget film-makers cameo

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 19d

My review of The Dead Of Winter (dir. Brian Kirk) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Locarno in the summer and gets its UK release today)

The Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller

Thompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness

www.theguardian.com

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