Peter Bradshaw Articles

Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 The eighth and last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has received a rave review from The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. "It all ends," says the poster slogan. A potentially grim statement of the obvious, of course, yet the Potter saga could hardly have ended on a better note. [...]

Controversy sells. At least sometimes it does. Roman Polanski (above, lower photo), under house arrest in Switzerland while fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having had sexual intercourse with a minor in the late 1970s, was named Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor (above, top photo), Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall. This weekend, the [...]

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: "Heath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam's loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny [...]