Movie Review: Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel Are Razor-Sharp in Art Comedy ‘The Christophers’

Movie Review: Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are razor-sharp in art comedy ‘The Christophers’

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel lead Steven Soderbergh's new movie “The Christophers,” about a famed artist and the unfinished paintings his estranged kids want to inherit.

Steven Soderbergh Burned 44 Years of Notebooks and Says It ‘Was the Right Thing to Do’

In director Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” Ian McKellen plays fictional aging artist Julian Sklar, who rose to prominence as a star of London’s 1960s and ’70s pop art movement. Having stopped painting decades ago, the now 86-year-old records personalized video messages (think Cameo) for money, while living a lonely existence amid his one remaining financial asset: two adjoining London townhouses. According to Soderbergh, Julian is livin…

Ian McKellen plays a 'one-off half-monster' in Steven Soderbergh art thriller

Just when you think you’ve seen everything a legend like Ian McKellen can offer on screen, along comes something like The Christophers. The new film from Steven Soderbergh gives the beloved actor a deliciously juicy role to sink his teeth into: Julian Sklar, a bitter British artist with a penchant for devastating putdowns, harbouring wounds from his past as he faces the end of his career. Set him up against Michaela Coel’s hustling forger Lori i…