Richard Hartley

Technology, Photography & Film

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Richard Hartley
    • Richard Hartley’s Work
    • Location
  • Film
  • Tech
  • Digital Media
  • Publishing
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Contact

Post navigation

← Older posts

Cantona review – Beckham and Ferguson lively defenders as Eric gnomically quotes Baudelaire

Cannes film festival: This lively documentary about everyone’s favourite hot-headed footballer/unlikely Ken Loach star will give more than just fans a kick

‘Extremely cruel and tragic’: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi speaks out against state violence and the war

The film-maker, who won the Grand Prix for A Hero in 2021, condemned both the killing of protesters and the conflict’s bombing campaigns during a Cannes press conference

In the Grey review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarrely buried action caper is a blast

There’s a great deal of fun to be had in the director’s sly and surprisingly serious thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza González

All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good

Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity

Erling Haaland to make film acting debut – as a Viking called Haaland

The Manchester City striker will feature in Viqueens, an animated film by director Harald Zwart, who described him as ‘powerful, fearless and uniquely Norwegian’

A year in hospital and 90% lung damage: how Andrey Zvyagintsev came back from Covid to Cannes

Cannes film festival: The great Russian director of Leviathan, Loveless and The Return has overcome extraordinary obstacles to present his first film in nine years

Dates double in sales as consumers move away from ultra-processed snacks

Viral recipes and fibre awareness boost demand for sweet fruit amid shift towards healthier alternatives

X to block UK access to accounts linked to terrorist groups in Ofcom agreement

Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate content

‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge

Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley

‘The nuance of being a Black woman in America’: Is God Is turns righteous rage into gory horror

Actors Vivica A Fox, Kara Young and Mallori Johnson on subverting revenge tropes as Aleshea Harris’s play storms on to the screen

Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI

The Testament of Ann Lee to The Bride! The seven best films to watch on TV this week

Amanda Seyfried is astonishing in a fascinating musical about the Shaker sect, plus Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein remix turns the stupendous Jessie Buckley into a girl power punk

Swindon is not enough – every new housing estate deserves a Dench Close

Bond Place and Desmond Crescent have been named in honour of the 007 franchise after some scenes were shot nearby in the 90s – why stop there?

Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie

It was just a creepy picture on the internet. Now it’s the year’s freakiest film. Its 20-year-old auteur Kane Parsons and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve take us through the terrifying labyrinth

High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments

Nine-person jury to consider whether AI firm bilked world’s richest person and unjustly enriched themselves

Post navigation

← Older posts

About

  • About Richard Hartley
  • Richard Hartley’s Work
  • Location

Film & Tech News

  • Cantona review – Beckham and Ferguson lively defenders as Eric gnomically quotes Baudelaire
  • ‘Extremely cruel and tragic’: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi speaks out against state violence and the war
  • In the Grey review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarrely buried action caper is a blast
  • All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good
  • Erling Haaland to make film acting debut – as a Viking called Haaland
  • A year in hospital and 90% lung damage: how Andrey Zvyagintsev came back from Covid to Cannes
  • Dates double in sales as consumers move away from ultra-processed snacks
  • X to block UK access to accounts linked to terrorist groups in Ofcom agreement
  • ‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge
  • ‘The nuance of being a Black woman in America’: Is God Is turns righteous rage into gory horror
  • Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition
  • The Testament of Ann Lee to The Bride! The seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Swindon is not enough – every new housing estate deserves a Dench Close
  • Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie
  • High-stakes courtroom drama of Musk v OpenAI hears closing arguments
  • NSPCC reports sharp rise in children being blackmailed over sexual images in UK
  • Parallel Tales review – Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi’s latest
  • Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech
  • Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return
  • Google denies breaching law by promoting suicide forum linked to 164 UK deaths
  • Hannah Einbinder: cost of not speaking out on Palestine is greater than losing career
  • Please stop making music biopics. We need a break from this tired genre that is essentially expensive karaoke
  • ‘It’s like stealing’: Palestinian family’s seized property listed on Booking.com
  • ‘We can all coexist’: artist Es Devlin uses selfies to unite UK in portrait of a nation
  • ‘It’s a distraction-free zone’: Gen Z on why they love going to the movies
  • Is God Is review – fiery revenge thriller flies from stage to screen
  • Top Gun review – now impossible to view Tom Cruise’s testosterone-swamped film without affection
  • Post your questions for Tom Hanks and the cast of Toy Story 5
  • Spit, vomit and a banned baby: Cannes controversies – ranked!
  • Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London

Contact www.richardhartley.com   Terms of Use