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
Newer posts →

Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom

With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s

‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic

From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music movie landmark?

Dunesday: will this be Barbenheimer on steroids – the biggest weekend of cinema ever?

Since the mammoth success of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer in 2023, Hollywood has taken to jointly marketing movies released on the same day – and December’s matchup of Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday could break all records

The Seasons review – Portuguese pastoral offers poetic excavation of myth and mapping

The rugged roads and lush vegetation of southern Portugal are showcased in this weaving-together of disparate threads of history and landscape

Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes

Whether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of new films featuring organ deliveries, including Runner and the latest Resident Evil

‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage girl classic

Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows

Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debut

Legend of the White Dragon review – Power Rangers alumni back for more in low-budget superhero retread

Simple but emphatic martial arts and a couple of classy cameos are all that give this blandly modern action film a fighting chance

La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people’s choice award

The queer period drama wins Oscar-predicting award, being named the most popular audience film at the festival

Readers reply: what would be the most useful superpower?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

‘Resident Evil movies? I’ve never seen one’: Weapons director Zach Cregger on resurrecting the beloved zombie franchise

Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fans

Hunk – or ‘unc’? What magazine covers of Michael B Jordan and Tom Cruise tell us about manhood

Images of two actors on front of Vogue and GQ land at a time when masculinity is increasingly dominating headlines

‘It’s almost impossible not to feel inspired’: how the story of Terry Fox fired up Canada’s patriotic spirit again

Canada’s citizens are finding unity again in the story of the man who ran cross-country on one leg to raise awareness for cancer research

John Wilson on his unlikely concrete movie: ‘There might be a kind of sickness in shooting things this way’

The creator of How To with John Wilson has returned with his first film, a documentary about how to sell a documentary about concrete

‘He’s simply astonishing’: will Andrew Scott become the first out gay man to win the best actor Oscar?

The Irishman seems a dead cert for his performance as Ian Charleson in Elsinore. And his ability to avoid being pigeonholed while embracing queer stories, from Pride to All of Us Strangers, is a remarkable achievement

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

About

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

Film & Tech News

  • Trump touts ‘great meeting’ with Xi at White House – as it happened
  • ‘Cracking auction, Gromit!’ Original Aardman puppets go under the hammer
  • Russia could attack a Nato country within months, Danish intelligence says
  • Parents and carers: how has your view on your children’s use of social media or AI changed?
  • TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform
  • Price hikes, ads and lower quality: has ‘streamflation’ ruined the TV experience?
  • ‘Eat the rich, save the planet’: climate protesters call out big tech’s disconnect from reality
  • Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics
  • Flash sale: AO snaps up camera seller Jessops from Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones
  • Post your questions for Zach Braff
  • Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity
  • ‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes
  • Greek epics, gory obsessions and awkward invites: where does this year’s Oscars race stand?
  • We’re in a crisis of loneliness – but is buying friends on an app likely to help solve it?
  • ‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’: how Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
  • OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste
  • Forgotten Island review – best friends forever trapped in frantic DreamWorks animation
  • An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far
  • Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database
  • Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles
  • Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’
  • OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council
  • ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI
  • How the ‘poisonous tide’ of disinformation spreads division and despair
  • UK politics: PM’s new anti-disinformation unit gets cross-party backing, as Farage declares it an attack on free speech – as it happened
  • Criminals recruiting students on social media to be ‘parcel mules’, say police
  • My (complicated) relationship with AI: often seductive, occasionally frustrating and always demanding vigilance
  • ‘He made something every single day’: David Lynch’s inscrutable photography celebrated in LA show
  • The living dead: we can watch ‘Janis Joplin’ perform or reunite the Beatles, but who are the real winners here?
  • John Green got an astronomical following from his books. What came next? ‘I’m still competing for clicks’

Contact www.richardhartley.com   Terms of Use