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Oscar winner reveals she would enjoy fans using her given name despite using Emma professionallyHer films have racked up more than $1bn at the box office and she has won two Oscars under her stage name, but Emma Stone says she would now prefer to be called by her given name: Emily.In a joint […]
French film director who won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes film festival with his improvisatory education drama The ClassThe social-realist boom in 1990s French cinema produced compelling new voices such as Jacques Audiard, Bruno Dumont and Érick Zonca. The most humane and rigorous of […]
The 27-year-old American actor has gone from the Disney channel to new classy arthouse threesome drama Challengers, via a massive blockbuster and a hot-button TV series. So can she convince as an Oscar contender?Actor-model-producer Zendaya Coleman – universally known mononymously, without […]
The collaboration between the merc with a mouth and the clawed crusader has to work hard to mashup the alternate realities, but it could open portals to a lot of multiversal funIt is somewhat ironic that just when the Marvel Cinematic Universe is entering its most intriguing phase, with the […]
DeBose’s brilliant rookie astronaut navigates this moderately tense thriller about US and Russian crew fighting as Earth blazes belowAt first, the crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) mistake the tiny dot of fire on Earth for a volcano. But look: there’s another, and […]
The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024In Hollywood, there are no accidents. Ryan Gosling’s role in stuntman pic The […]
Surprise reversal of producer’s New York conviction led to anger from stars and accusers, including Ashley Judd and Mira SorvinoHollywood has reacted with shock to the news that the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction has been overturned by a New York court.The fallen […]
The director’s 18-minute film Scénarios will premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival accompanied by his 34-minute introductionThe final film from the French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard is set to premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival.Scénarios is an […]
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 […]
Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projectsLaurent Cantet, the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy, the education system, diversity and […]
Among 70 lots donated by film and music stars are up for grabs, including Neil Tennant’s coat and Stanley Tucci’s hotpotAn original shooting script of much-loved Christmas romcom Love Actually is among the lots up for grabs in an auction to support charity War Child.The script from the […]
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.] […]
Kerry Condon plays a potty-mouthed IRA gang leader and Neeson is the quiet antihero in this action thriller set at the height of the TroublesProducer-director and veteran Clint Eastwood collaborator Robert Lorenz is now saddling up for this “Donegal western”. It is an action thriller […]
Paola Cortellesi’s directing debut, in which she also stars, depicts gruelling domestic abuse before finding its way to startling redemptionItalian actor and singer Paola Cortellesi has been breaking hearts and box office records on her home turf with this directing debut. It’s a richly […]
Sombre documentary focuses on the former Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, and how he is becoming a Mandela-like figure since his imprisonment in 2002Here is a film that offers something not generally on offer in the media: an envisioning of the future and a road map, or part of a road map, out […]
The Clash are the touchstone for a story that stretches back to the 50s, told in interviews with many campaigning rockersThere’s no better time than now for a documentary on popular music’s role in the fight against racism and fascism. And in true punk spirit, this lo-fi indie packs in […]
The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judgedLate one night, while her […]
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 […]
Welcome Villain Films presents two fright-fests, but tired tricks, bad acting and some head-banging repetition leads to hackneyed hokumNew horror-focused studio Welcome Villain are aiming to be the next Blumhouse, but judging by this double bill of early releases it could be a long road. Both aim […]
Brosnan to … Bolt? Frank Mannion’s follow-up documentary to Quintessentially British presents a grab bag of interviews – some with distinctly un-Irish personalitiesIt features a definition of “the craic” but, frustratingly, this long, meandering documentary about […]
Musician and film-maker’s story about a Belgian-Congolese man who takes his white wife to DRC to meet the family is complex, risky and boldCongolese-born rapper, musician and film-maker Baloji (né Serge Baloji Tshiani) was a prizewinner at Cannes last year with this feature directing […]
A sexually candid, seriously intentioned drama about a young Kurdish woman who feels she has to surgically ‘restore’ her virginity before her weddingThere is a heartfelt and courageous performance from 28-year-old Syrian-born, German-based actor Bayan Layla in this drama about sex, […]
Hayao Miyazaki’s animations praised by Phelim McDermott as new production in West End announced The work of Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki should be considered as remarkable and timeless as Shakespeare’s First Folio, according to the director of the hit stage adaptation of My […]
Freewheeling documentary presents a compelling if somewhat rambling portrait of the hardscrabble roots of many contendersAdmittedly, their freewheeling boxing documentary is a little rambling and understructured, but nevertheless director Steve Read and producer-narrator Robert Douglas (both Brits) […]
Nikki Amuka-Bird gives a powerful performance as a gritty deputy defending her remote sheriff’s office from armed invadersThere’s an old-timey charm about this, a (mostly) one-location action movie in the tradition of Rio Bravo, or its sort-of remake Assault on Precinct 13. Partly […]
He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama schoolThis is the first time David Harewood has stepped through the doors of Rada’s London headquarters since he […]
Rachel Lambert’s perceptive tale of a loner with a vividly imaginative inner life proves an unexpected showcase for the Star Wars actor’s talentsSome people settle effortlessly into the business of living. Others find it a near-impossible challenge. […]
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 […]
The Oscar-winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread & Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they warn that the west ignores its message at their peril“Strong women are not easy women,” says Jennifer Lawrence, […]
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 […]
How do you survive when the two most important men in your life die at a tragically young age? The daughter of martial arts hero Bruce Lee describes what kept her going – and how she is preserving the family legacyShannon Lee is cheerfully recounting the time she went to a darkness retreat in […]
Being cast as a scheming toff in the global phenomenon Bridgerton was a surprise for Claudia Jessie. Fiercely proud of her roots, the Brummie talks about etiquette lessons, getting too many tattoos and why working-class actors so often get a rough dealThe actor Claudia Jessie greets everyone […]
Luca Guadagnino’s terrifically absorbing screwball dramedy features a devastatingly cool leading lady, Josh O’Connor on rallying form and zinging extended dialogue rallies to matchIt’s almost too good to be true. Could cinema be witnessing the birth of a stunning new mixed […]
Thirty years after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert thrust him on to the international stage, the actor discusses tiring of Hollywood villains and his most challenging role yetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailHugo Weaving is striding down Wharf 4 in Sydney’s Walsh Bay where the wind […]
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 […]
From gritty banlieue drama Girlhood to period piece Portrait of a Lady on Fire and animation My Life As a Courgette, the French director’s films never fail to connect eloquently with us“Does French film-maker Céline Sciamma ever put a foot wrong?” That’s a question I […]
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 […]
‘I had no interest in teen vampire films and turned it down five times. But Joel Schumacher promised I wouldn’t have to wear the makeup and teeth, or have to fly around. Of course, he lied’Joel Schumacher, the director, wanted me in the movie right from the first time we met. But […]
Until recently, sapphic romances generally meant furtive nods in a corset. Today’s queer offerings are fun, unbuttoned – and climate-appropriateThere’s a scene towards the end of Rose Glass’s romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding in which the leads, Lou (Kristen Stewart) and […]
Classic heist caper The Lavender Hill Mob is getting a cinema rerelease. But which of these 40s and 50s film fancies are slyly subversive, and which have dated less well?Anyone wanting a look at Dublin in the late 1940s might like this, but there’s not much else especially compelling about […]
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 […]
Is Oppenheimer a lock across the board? Does Barbie have any chance? Our critic makes his final predictions – and highlights who should have been nominatedOscars 2024 live updatesOscars 2024: the full list of winners – live updatesWith a terrible inevitability, this is set to be the […]
In the US and Europe, a combination of figurehead film-makers allied with community partners really seems to workOne of LA’s loveliest cinemas – the huge, sentinel Village Theater in Westwood - has been bought by Jason Reitman, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Lulu Wang, […]
Earlier this week, Crowe said he kept shooting Robin Hood despite two broken legs. Now, Stallone has upped the ante with a horrific litany of bodily abuses. Who will share their medical notes next?One repeated theme in director Edward Zwick’s very good new autobiography Hits, Flops, and Other […]