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Xan Brooks

Xan Brooks is a freelance writer and broadcaster specialising in cinema

September 2023

  • Billy Magnussen and Sarah Gadon in the film Coup!

    Coup! review – exuberant class-struggle comedy set in Spanish flu lockdown

  • Tulpamancer.

    Rage against the machine? Why AI may not mean the death of film

  • Pablo Larraín at the 80th Venice film festival.

    Director Pablo Larraín: ‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’

  • Glen Powell in 'Hit Man' film still

    Hit Man review – Richard Linklater mixes philosophy and fun in true-crime caper

  • Sky Peals review – eerie tale of lost souls at the service station

  • Coup de Chance review – Woody Allen’s tale of ill-fated lovers is his best film in a decade

  • Venice’s brave new world: my cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back

  • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial review – William Friedkin’s final film looks for the truth

  • The Palace review – Roman Polanski’s tacky hotel farce is the worst party in town

  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s short and sweet Roald Dahl tale

  • Hollywoodgate review – a fascinating insight into the Taliban’s insular world

August 2023

  • Matthew Broderick

    ‘My legacy? I’m Ferris Bueller’: Matthew Broderick on life, love and opioids

    From storming the West End with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker, to playing the architect of the US opioids crisis in dark new Netflix drama Painkiller – the star is taking a bold new direction

July 2023

  • Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Book of the day
    Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah review – criminally entertaining

    Prisoners fight for survival on reality TV in an exuberant dystopia of doomed love and industrialised racism

June 2023

  • Bryan Cranston<br>Actor Bryan Cranston photographed in New Orleans, November 15, 2020. Cranston is currently wrapping up shooting "Your Honor" a 10-episode limited series that is being adapted from the Israeli TV series “Kvodo”, created by Ron Ninio and Shlomo Mashiach. It is set to premiere on December 6, 2020. Credit: Redux / eyevine For further information please contact eyevine tel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 e-mail: info@eyevine.com www.eyevine.com

    Bryan Cranston: ‘My dad wanted to be a star. How futile is that?’

  • Page turner … Michael Caine in 2021’s Best Sellers.

    Michael Caine’s novel will most likely be rubbish, but I’m glad he’s found his happy ending

    Xan Brooks

May 2023

  • Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman on the red carpet for Asteroid City.

    Cannes 2023 week two roundup – still a country for old men?

    Films from Scorsese, Loach, Wim Wenders and more are some of the best in this year’s competition, but ahead of them all is Jonathan Glazer’s mighty Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest
  • Getting passengers out safely … In the Rearview, directed by Maciek Hamela

    ‘They wanted their accounts to be heard’: the film-maker who drove 400 Ukrainians to safety

    As In the Rearview premieres at Cannes, its director explains how he made a movie about transporting people across the border in his VW and why he’s rejected the red carpet for a borrowed rug from a bombed home

    • Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s magnificent period epic is an instant American classic

    • May December review – fraught drama starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore promises more than it delivers

    • Cannes 2023 week one roundup – from Depp to Godard, the chaotic circus rolls on

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