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Movies

  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

    Twisters is the latest in a long line of movies that fail to address the environmental emergency – experts say it’s a missed opportunity
  • Captain America: Civil War Year

    Avenger angels: can the Russo brothers return to rescue Marvel?

  • Malcolm McDowell.

    Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

  • A woman wearing a white dress stands next to a man wearing a black button-down, with fairy lights in the background

    Find Me Falling review – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

  • Hungarian Filmmaker Bela Tarr Stars In A Season At The Filmoteca De Catalunya With A Large Part Of His Filmography<br>BARCELONA CATALONIA, SPAIN - JANUARY 09: Filmmaker Bela Tarr poses after giving a press conference at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, January 9, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. During the press conference, the filmmaker commented on his retrospective at the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr stars in a Filmoteca de Catalunya cycle with a large part of his cinematography during the month of January. (Photo By David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images)

    ‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

  • Rob Delaney promoting Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Rob Delaney: ‘The average British citizen is funnier than the average American’

News

  • Manny Jacinto poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere for the film 'The Acolyte' on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 in London. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

    ‘Tom Cruise is writing stories for Tom Cruise’: Manny Jacinto on why Top Gun lines were cut

  • Fly Me To The Moon Photocall, Madrid, Spain - 11 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mike Chicorro/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14582583j) SCARLETT JOHANSSON attends 'Fly Me To The Moon Photocallà at Cineteca Fly Me To The Moon Photocall, Madrid, Spain - 11 Jul 2024

    Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s Sam Altman would make a good Marvel villain after voice dispute

  • On the set of Craig's Wife (1936), left to right: film editor Viola Lawrence, star Rosalind Russell, screenwriter McCall and director Dorothy Arzner.

    Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history

  • BFFs … Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman at the UK Press Conference for Deadpool &amp; Wolverine.

    ‘His skincare regime alone would bankrupt you’: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring banter and bromance to London

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Reviews

  • Sasha Lane as Lily and Glen Powell as Tyler in Twisters.

    Twisters – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel

  • Anna Faris and Dave Bautista in My Spy: The Eternal City.

    My Spy: The Eternal City – Dave Bautista’s daddy-daughter spy comedy heads to Rome

    Bautista returns as a less than convincing CIA agent charging around the planet to protect his stepdaughter and defend against nuclear catastrophe
  • A man and a woman hold onto a ladder and each other as they scale the side of a building

    Skywalkers: A Love Story – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary

    A daredevil Russian couple who climb to the tops of skyscrapers make for both frustrating and thrilling protagonists in this hit-and-miss documentary

  • Find Me Falling – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

  • Longlegs – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

  • Fly Me to the Moon – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy

  • Sing Sing – powerful, deeply felt drama takes theatre behind bars

  • Divorce in the Black – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date

  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories

  • Space Cadet review – Emma Roberts joins Nasa in lazy streaming slop

  • The Imaginary – charming anime about made-up best friends from former Ghibli protege

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Video & audio

  • Charli XCX

    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

    Marina Hyde advises the US president: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’; ‘I’m a failure, in debt and my partner is pregnant’ – Philippa Perry helps one man open up; Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life and career of Kiran Shah; actor Katy Wix confronts a painful memory when she gets a message out of the blue
  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy - podcast

    Frock horror! The ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala; reluctant star Josh O’Connor ​takes the lead in a new film, Challengers; Catherine Carr talks to boys about sex, pornography and feeling isolated and vulnerable; and Philippa Perry responds to a reader who is child-free.
  • bed illustration

    Does murder count if you’re asleep? Marina Hyde on Christian Horner’s F1 drama; and how inanity ruined the red carpet – podcast

  • The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76

    Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

  • Tyla performs during New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City.

    Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year

  • The South Korean actor was best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite

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    A look back at Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun's career – video obituary

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Opinion

  • Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage

  • Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw

  • After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

    Stuart Heritage

  • Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!

    Stuart Heritage

  • Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage
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Interviews

  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

  • ‘Characters are like paint brushed on my canvas’ … Baker filming Janet Planet.

    Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut

    The writer has made the leap into film with Janet Planet, about a mother and daughter drifting apart on a hippy commune. She talks about how it echoes her own upbringing – and why her younger self would be horrified
  • June Squibb is photographed at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

    June Squibb on getting her first starring role at 94: ‘I don’t have to prove myself any more’

    The Oscar-nominated character actor has landed her first leading role in the action comedy Thelma – she looks back on a career beside the likes of Nicholson, Scorsese and Pacino
  • Danny Dyer wears a polo shirt by Mr P (mrporter.com).

    ‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image

  • Jane Seymour sitting in a plush yellow gold cocoon chair

    Jane Seymour: ‘I’ve remained friends with my third and fourth husbands’

  • DO NOT USE BEFORE JULY 13 2024. Emma Corrin shot by Christina Ebenezer in London, June 2024, for Guardian Saturday magazine. Styling: Ali & Aniko Hair: Daniel Martin Make up: Gina Kane Set Design: George Lewin Dress by Molly Goddard, earrings and ring by Cartier

    ‘I’m starting to doubt everything’: Emma Corrin on Diana, being a Marvel villain, and an existential crisis

  • Director Levan Akin.

    ‘I saw In Bed with Madonna 50 times. I’d never seen guys kissing before’: Levan Akin on formative films, trans rights and usurping his heroes

Regulars

  • Maika Monroe in profile as a bedraggled looking Agent Lee Harker in Longlegs, screaming in a car in a dull, grey forest setting

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • Captain America: Civil War Year

    Week in geek
    Avenger angels: can the Russo brothers return to rescue Marvel?

  • From left: Willem Dafoe in Kathryn Bigelow’s debut feature, The Loveless (1981); her Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker (2008); Jessica Chastain in political thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

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You may have missed

  • Authentic Japan? … Sessue Hayakawa in The Dragon Painter.

    Sessue Hayakawa: cinema’s forgotten sex symbol who was saved from death by his dog

  • (l-r) Dorottya Zurbó, Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel, and Arun Bhattarai.

    ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

    The co-directors of the engrossing and funny new film Agent of Happiness discuss the pressures of documentary making, living with parents and why they can’t work alone
  • woman with tattoos on her hands covers her face with her hands

    ‘How do we stop this?’ Inuit woman unpacks trauma of being twice colonized

    New documentary Twice Colonized follows human rights lawyer Aaju Peter as she looks back at how both she and her homeland were colonized by Europe
  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

  • white woman wearing white suit gestures at white woman wearing patterned shirt as a white man wearing a black suit and bowtie looks on

    Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

  • A mystical creature with horns looks menacingly at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

    Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?

  • Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

    ‘I can see him now. I will see him forever’: Donald Sutherland remembered by Keira Knightley, Elliott Gould, Ralph Fiennes and more

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