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Awful secrets and gorgeous swimwear are present in equal measure in this bizarre drama featuring a lightly-clad Hurley on top telenovela formAfter Blackbird, the traumatising spy-thriller bankrolled by and starring Irish dancer Michael Flatley, filmgoers thought they were safe – for a while […]
More background fluff from the streamer, this time from Mean Girls director Mark Waters with a splashy Thailand locationDespite experience mostly insisting caution, certain markers still allow one to naively daydream that a new Netflix comedy might be worth more than a background half-watch while […]
Obnoxious flatmates Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox get way more than they bargained for with the arrival of enigmatic Keith Allen and a suitcase full of cashRereleased for its 30th anniversary, the macabre black-comic crime caper is from screenwriter John Hodge with Danny Boyle […]
Rasoulof is one of Iran’s leading directors and his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig is due to premiere at Cannes film festivalThe Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, a fine and the confiscation of property, his lawyer has confirmed.Writing […]
He has collaborated with an array of star directors, and is currently at work on James Mangold’s Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. He explains why US film-making is like the army, and British cinema is more like a factory jobPhedon Papamichael is sitting in a sparse hotel room in New York, […]
This hopefully final prequel to the original movie reveals the story of the crazed ape leader Proximus Caesar – but it’s time the franchise evolvedAfter four ambitious and successful pictures, the reboot-prequel Planet of the Apes franchise now comes to what could well be the end, […]
Goran Stolevski’s third feature is a deft and unsentimental family drama about an unlikely tribe of misfits trying to make a place for themselvesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailEach of Goran Stolevski’s films thus far has marked a departure from the last: the bewitching […]
Actor who played cheerleader Patty Simcox became audience favorite and went on to star in TV showsSusan Buckner, the actor known for her role as Patty Simcox in the 1978 movie musical hit Grease, died on Thursday at the age of 72.In a statement to the Guardian, Buckner’s publicist confirmed […]
Identical twins mistaken for each other, a desperately obvious crime, the production values of a 70s TV mystery … this is cheap and tedious but not without a certain knowing charmGiven that this intensely schlocky, cheap-as-chardonnay-in-a-box erotic thriller is about identical twins who are […]
Documentary captures in lurid detail the chaos as thousands of ticketless fans forced their way into Wembley stadium to watch England v ItalyMore than Bukayo Saka’s deciding penalty miss, the final of Euro 2020 between England and Italy will be remembered primarily for the chaos seen around […]
The 5-16 June program includes Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest Kinds of Kindness, and a hairy family in Sasquatch SunsetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThis year’s Sydney film festival program has just been announced and, as usual, it is bulging with treats from around the world. […]
CEO Bob Iger says company will scale back releases in superhero franchise as it seeks to take on Netflix in streaming marketDisney plans to release fewer movies and “focus more on quality” in its key franchises, following of a string of high-profile flops at the box office.The Hollywood […]
Restored 1976 doc of Connolly’s tour of Ireland shows that, despite his bombastic stage presence, he is impeccably polite. But his naughtier material hasn’t aged wellHere is a 70s time capsule as pungent as a brimming pub ashtray. Restored and rereleased, Big Banana Feet is the 1976 […]
Poliakoff’s first film starring Charles Dance is reissued, and whil the story rambles and some of the acting isn’t great, it retains a confident power to intrigueThere is great archival and historical interest to the 1987 feature film debut of writer-director Stephen Poliakoff, which […]
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser’s wistful documentary follows resourceful porn star Tara Emory’s ‘entropic’ problem with clutterThis documentary about a transgender porn star turns out to be a portrait of a divided self, but not quite how you’d expect. Two personalities vie […]
The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’ It’s been 30 years since […]
The actor impresses in a dialled-down performance but can’t rescue this unconvincing film about a woman whose husband has a traumatic brain-injuryWell-meaning but contrived and unconvincing, this is a British drama about how traumatic brain injuries can leave people with hidden disabilities […]
Cezar Diaz’s sensitive and humane film looks back at one of the bloodiest periods of the Guatemalan civil war from the perspective of one damaged familyHere is a thoughtful, restrained drama about one of the bloodiest periods during the long civil war in Guatemala, fought between US-backed […]
That They May Face the Rising Sun, about a small rural community in Ireland, has little obvious drama. The director explains how that is exactly what’s winning it awardsFor most directors it would be an agonising predicament: how do you translate a novel with no discernible plot, in which […]
Critics might have fallen for Luca Guadagnino’s erotic tennis romp but it’s a vapid string of disappointing choicesI have spent the week and a half since seeing Challengers on the brink of throwing a racquet-trashing, expletive-scattering, McEnroe-style tantrum. Is Hawkeye working? Did […]
Cauleen Smith’s 1998 debut about a California girl who takes Polaroids of young black men as an endangered-species record, is captivatingThe title is an African American term from the US south meaning “ordinary” or “ordinariness” – but there’s nothing […]
La Chimera looks like a crime caper about looters in 1980s Italy. But it’s about way more than that. The great director, loved by everyone from Scorsese to Gerwig, talks about the dark secrets of the heart – and her debt to beesAlice Rohrwacher could be the European arthouse made flesh, […]
Pierrette is beset with troubles, from a robbery to a house flood and more, but the neorealist drama comes with solidarity and surprising humourThe simple image of pushing a seam through a sewing machine becomes a profound life statement in Rosine Mbakam’s debut feature, which is focused on […]
The actor on catching the theatre bug playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret, being a football fan, and dealing with a fire that destroyed her home in LALondon-born Cara Delevingne, 31, began modelling in her teens and was twice model of the year at the British fashion awards. She started her acting […]
Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilderThis may seem an unexpected point to make about an actor who is arguably one of the coolest people on the planet, but the key to Kristen […]
Growing up on set put Oscar-winning actor Jennifer Connelly on the fast track to Hollywood fame. But despite her success, one of her lasting regrets was not finishing college – and, she says, it’s still on her to-do list…Jennifer Connelly is on a Zoom call from her home in […]
Formerly best known as The Crown’s Prince Charles, the British actor is starring as a cocky US tennis pro in Guadagnino’s new hit film. But, he says, he was happiest living off grid in a van for his next film, La ChimeraWhat makes a movie star? Josh O’Connor, […]
The theatre adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s beloved animation sold out in Japan in four minutes. As it comes to the UK, we meet the international team of creatives bringing its giant dragons and tiny soot sprites to lifeThe dragon stirs to life as Toby Olié plucks it up by its tail. He […]
As his dazzling debut, Shallow Grave, gets a 30th anniversary rerelease, here’s to an extraordinary career that ranges from Trainspotting to Slumdog Millionaire and that unforgettable London 2012 Olympic opening ceremonyLancashire-born film-maker Danny Boyle holds a special place in the […]
Actor brings force of Hollywood to trumpet Biden’s legislative record in briefing that both delighted and bemused journalists“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” But enough about Washington. The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who once saw off gangsters at […]
The spooky comedy franchise may seem an unlikely place to find an ethnicity and faith adviser, but productions are increasingly aware of a duty to make sure communities are truthfully representedThe “sensitivity reader” is a well-established, if controversial, figure in the publishing […]
The much-derided film returns to cinemas for its 25th anniversary. Once a rare blot on the galactic landscape, these days it’s far from the only stinker in the canonCan it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I – The Phantom Menace, once […]
As Kong continues to terrorise us in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we rate some chilling chimpsDespite the English title, there’s only one “ape” in this cheesy slice of Mexploitation, once labelled a video nasty. A mad doctor transplants the heart of a gorilla into his dying […]
US research suggests that 92 minutes is the optimum length for a film. But I have sat through long films that felt short and short films that felt buttock-annihilatingly long I can still remember sitting down to Theo Angelopoulos’s legendary epic film The Travelling Players and noting that […]
Busted for cruising in an LA toilet, he proudly turned his police documents into art. Now the Californian is bringing Being Alone – his elegant hymn to anonymous hookups – to Venice and LondonVeer to your left in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale and you’ll come across a […]
As Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed tennis film Challengers makes its case for sporting immortality, critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the genre’s undisputed heavyweightsChallengers reviewed by Wendy IdeAnalogies of life as sport have been exhausted by every PE teacher in existence. In the […]
In Human Resources, Time Out and The Class, the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker – who has died aged 63 – addressed French and European society at all levelsLaurent Cantet was a classic product of the French cinema industry: a deeply intelligent, high-minded progressive film-maker of […]
The actor on tricking her tear ducts, being entertained as a child by Tom Cruise and legging it from dinosaurs while wearing stilettosHi Bryce! If two generations makes an acting family, does three make an acting dynasty? [Her father is director Ron Howard, both of whose parents were actors.] […]
Does the actor’s recent excited outburst in support of Arsenal FC reveal a deep love of the game – or a cynical bit of media massaging by a lukewarm star?Anne Hathaway’s renaissance has been a wonderful thing to witness. For years now, the actor’s reputation has been based […]
Kevin Macdonald’s finely balanced portrait of the disgraced Dior designer, on Mubi from Friday, is the newest arrival on a catwalk of fashion industry movies, from Funny Face to ZoolanderFor those who bleat on about the iniquities of supposed “cancel culture”, the career of […]
Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest rolesAn early Shirley in this epic Technicolor comedy-adventure based on Jules Verne, overstuffed with superstar cameos and produced by the impresario Mike Todd. David Niven sauntered through the […]
If you really want to know about making music, fame, exploitation, addiction, egos and challenging personalities – look to fiction. Here are our favourites Making a movie about an iconic musician can be perilous – there are so many stakeholders with differing versions of events, and so […]
Alex Garland’s speculative and apolitical action film might be a box office hit but it’s a frustratingly weightless experienceThe music video for MIA’s Born Free imagines a ginger genocide, with humvees of jackbooted, gas-masked stormtroopers raiding a high-rise housing complex to […]
For every Wall Street or Wild at Heart there are countless cringeworthy examples of Hollywood power players elbowing their own kids into the picture. Adam Sandler alone has made two dozen with hisIf the dismal reviews meted out to the new film Bleeding Love prove anything at all, it’s that […]
Female directors are thin on the ground – plus ça change – but the lineup promises intriguing new films from modern day masters, as well as some unknown hot potatoes• Donald Trump biopic and new films by Yorgos Lanthimos and Andrea Arnold to premiere at CannesThe new Cannes […]
Patricia Highsmith’s charming devil has fascinated film-makers since the 1960s, but his brand of evil seems peculiarly well suited to the Instagram ageHe’s back. But he never went away. Patricia Highsmith’s diabolically inspired postwar creation Tom Ripley has returned, to […]
The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our livesIn the 50 years since Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation was released in theaters, the evolution of technology and the devolution of political culture have combined to […]
Lovers, fighters … and gangsters? On the centenary of the actor’s birth, we pick out his greatest rolesA minor picture with curiosity value: Charlie Chaplin’s final film as a director, starring Brando and Sophia Loren, a comedy in the style of the Hollywood Golden Age, based on […]
Always good as either an antagonist or malign authority figure, Walsh – best known as loathsome PI Visser in Blood Simple – was a singular, brilliant iconM Emmet Walsh, American actor, dies at 88M Emmet Walsh was the outstanding Hollywood character actor who emerged in the American new […]
This was the year that the Academy’s diversity standards were introduced – yet some argue that only structural change will make the film industry truly inclusive• Oscars 2024: full list of winners• Full report: Oppenheimer wins best pictureThis year’s Oscars will go down […]