From wild-haired rockers to joyful bolero singers, films with or about celebrated musicians have played a key part in the movies. Here, the Guardian and Observers’ critics pick the 10 finest • Top 10 silent movies • Top 10 sports movies • Top 10 film noir • Top 10 musicals • Top 10 martial arts movies • Top 10 biopics • More Guardian and Observer critics’ top 10s 10. Don’t Look Back DA …
Director James Cameron says the movies will be shot together and released between 2016 and 2018
Wolf Children | Misfits: Series 1-5 | Big Trouble In Little China | Elementary: Season 1 | Elysium Reading this on mobile? Click here to view It hasn’t been a banner year for animated movies. The not-as-good-as-the-first-one Despicable Me 2 cleaned up at the box office, while the offerings from the usually reliable Pixar and Ghibli, Monsters University and The Wind Rises, were good rather than …
Only God Forgives | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Man Of Steel | The Lone Ranger | The Phantom Of The Opera Only God Forgives Reading this on mobile? Click here to view “Drive was going to feel like really, really good cocaine and Only God Forgives will then be very strong acid,” says director Nicolas Winding Refn on the commentary to his latest team-up with Ryan Gosling
Kay wants to replace her bulky old TV set with a flat screen for watching movies on DVD. Can she use a PC monitor instead of a TV set and thus avoid having to pay for a TV license? I’ve been using a bulky analogue TV set as a screen for my DVD player.
So Sky Movies has swiped Elf from Channel 4, and an annual mass-watching tradition has been thwarted.
Perfect Blue | Breaking Bad:The Complete Series 1-5 | The Act Of Killing | The World’s End | Despicable Me 2 Perfect Blue Reading this on mobile? Click here to view It’s almost misleading to describe Satoshi Kon as an animation director
Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist? The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made
JFK | The Wolverine | Nosferatu | Streets Of Fire | Milius Reading this on mobile? Click here to view As the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s assassination approaches you’ll notice that, for such an important event, Hollywood movies on the subject are pretty thin on the ground.
My Sony DVD RDR player was wrecked by an automatic download – but Sony’s customer care doesn’t want to know Our Sony DVD RDR player was working perfectly until we came back from a break to find it downloading an upgrade that rendered it incapable of receiving a signal.