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  • Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in Fair Play

    The women who earn more than their partners: ‘I’m with someone who is threatened by me’

    In Netflix’s Fair Play, a couple crumbles when the woman is promoted, an experience many can relate to as the gender pay gap tightens
  • Still from film showing Marion Deichmann standing in front of a cattle car on railway track at Drancy, her back to the camera

    ‘I don’t want my mother’s story to die’: Holocaust account brought to life in virtual reality film

  • From left: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai in Reservation Dogs; Leonard DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon; Wes Studi (right) in Geronimo.

    Streaming: Native American representation on screen before Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Portrait of Julia Fox in green dress.

    ‘I could go to therapy and unpack it all – but I don’t have time for that’: Julia Fox on chaos, kink and dating Kanye West

  • Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain in Memory, looking at each other in a forest.

    London film festival
    Memory review – survivors grapple with an unstable past in a delicate, painful duet

  • Jamie Foxx in The Burial.

    The Burial review – Jamie Foxx ignites crowd-pleasing courtroom drama

  • Julia Ormond in 2017.

    Julia Ormond sues Disney and CAA over alleged Harvey Weinstein assault

    • London film festival: privilege and poverty collide in big British cinema showcase

    • Helen Mirren addresses Golda controversy: ‘I told the director that I’m not Jewish’

    • Dolled up: Design Museum to host Barbie exhibition next year

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  • Killer robots or here to save us? Madeleine Yuna Voyles in The Creator.

    The Creator – vast and exhilarating sci-fi actioner rages against the AI machine

  • Saw X Press film still.

    Saw X – torture porn horror returns with more blood, less value

    Stomachs will churn once again in an attempt to rewind the clock for the fatigued franchise but there’s ultimately little of worth here
  • Paul Dano in Dumb Money

    Dumb Money – GameStop drama makes for a fun financial romp

    The 2021 Reddit vs Wall Street saga gets a fast and fizzy big screen adaptation with an ensemble cast including Paul Dano and Seth Rogen
  • Reptile – Benicio Del Toro looms large in gruesomely ambitious noir

  • Love is in the Air – Delta Goodrem’s corny Netflix romcom is a saccharine mess

  • Expend4bles – cigar-smoking Stallone leads way as retro franchise lumbers on

  • The Nun II – second dose of clerical horror is a demonic dead end

  • Gran Turismo – gamer turns racer in super-bland ode to product placement

  • Meg 2: The Trench – Jason Statham v seamonsters, round two

  • Kokomo City review – Black trans women tell truths of light and dark side of sex work

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – evergreen superheroes rise up from the drains

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Video & audio

  • Julia Fox. Photographer: Erik Madigan Heck; styling: Chloe Hartstein; set design: Andrea Huelse; hair: John Novotny at Opus Beauty; makeup: David Razzano at Opus Beauty; set design assistant: Henry Harper; green dress : Rachel Gilbert; necklace: Alexis Bittar

    Weekend podcast: actor Julia Fox, John Crace at the Tory party conference, and The Greatest Show Never Made

  • Lankum perform during the Mercury music prize

    Culture 2023: the films, music and TV shows not to miss this autumn

    Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis, film editor Catherine Shoard and TV critic Leila Latif guide you through what’s on offer
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    Franchesca Ramsey on the WGA and Hollywood strikes – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

    Actress and writer Franchesca Ramsey joins Chanté this week to talk about the deal the Writer’s Guild of America has struck with Hollywood studios and what life has really been like on the picket line
  • Michael Oher sits on a bench during an NFL game

    The Blind Side and Hollywood’s blind spot

  • Photographer: Shaniqwa Jarvis

    Weekend podcast: Olivia Rodrigo, Marina Hyde on Prince Andrew, and the dark impact of Shallow Hal

  • Brian Cox speaks during a solidarity protest rally for the Sag-Aftra strike, as Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo and Simon Pegg listen to him.

    Why is Hollywood on strike – and why is Succession’s Brian Cox joining them? – Full Story podcast

  • Brian Cox speaks during a rally while Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo and Simon Pegg listen to him.

    Why is Hollywood on strike? (And why Succession’s Brian Cox is joining them)

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  • A dog gets into character at the Guinness world record-breaking screening of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.

    Cinema may be going to the dogs, but at least dogs are going to the cinema

    Stuart Heritage
  • The fantasy of a reunion … Greta Lee as Nora Moon and Teo Yoo as Hae Sung in Past Lives.

    Many unhappy returns: why Asian immigrant cinema is challenging the meaning of home

    Rebecca Liu
  • Ready for its closeup … Poop Trop Play-Doh by Hasbro.

    Barbie, what have you done? The nightmare of Hollywood’s toy movie future

    Stuart Heritage
  • Meg 2: The Trench.

    More gore please: don’t waste my time with blood-free monster movies

    Anne Billson
  • From Barbie to Talk to Me, trans actors’ visibility is at a tipping point – and about time too

    Caspar Salmon
  • William Friedkin created unforgettable horror and pleasure with equal brilliance

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Barbie’s muddled feminist fantasy still bows to the patriarchy

    David Cox
  • See no evil: why have baddies vanished from our cinema screens?

    Alex Hess
  • No more newborns: Watership Down has been upgraded to a PG. It’ll still terrify children

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out

    Caspar Salmon
  • Latest Mission: Impossible shows the ‘silent Asian’ stereotype is alive and well

    Ann Lee
  • Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration

    Peter Bradshaw
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  • Sofía Otero as Cocó in 20,000 Species of Bees.

    ‘He was suffering a lot’: the tragic death behind uplifting trans drama 20,000 Species of Bees

  • ‘I’ve had so much great good fortune in my life’: Patrick Stewart wears suit by Gabriella Hearst, and shirt by Paul Smith.

    ‘On stage, I could escape’: Sir Patrick Stewart on childhood trauma and acting success

    Sir Patrick Stewart is one of our most admired actors, a master of Shakespeare – and the universe. But his start in life was anything but starry. Here, he talks about writing his memoir, his violent father – and why he’d love to do more comedy
  • three images of Mike Skinner in shadows and light

    ‘I thought: how hard can it be?’ Mike Skinner on making a film – and the first Streets album in a decade

    The era-defining musician spent a decade making his first feature film almost entirely by himself. He discusses creativity, avoiding musical nostalgia – and why he loves the National Trust
  • Mstyslav Chernov photographed while on assignment for Associated Press in Sloviansk

    ‘It felt like the beginning of the third world war … It still does’ – Mstyslav Chernov on 20 Days in Mariupol

  • Werner Herzog

    ‘Everything became a lie, a performance’ – Werner Herzog on Soviet Russia

  • ‘We’re just so bloody old!’ … Michael Caine and John Standing.

    ‘I’m 90. I worry if I’m gonna make it to lunch’: Michael Caine and John Standing on wives, war and feeling like the Queen

  • Glastonbury Festival 2009 - Day Two<br>Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) from Spinal Tap performing during the 2009 Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.

    Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

Regulars

  • John David Washington in The Creator.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Creator review – a truly original man-v-machine sci-fi spectacular

  • From left: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai in Reservation Dogs; Leonard DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon; Wes Studi (right) in Geronimo.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Native American representation on screen before Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Riz Ahmed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

    Week in geek
    Will we ever get to see Gareth Edwards’ cut of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story?

  • Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’

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  • Hudson embraces Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows (1955)

    The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’

    The matinee idol’s death in 1985 changed the public’s perception of Aids. Yet in life, finds Ryan Gilbey, the golden age actor was anything but an activist
  • "May December" Photocall - The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 21: Todd Haynes attends the "May December" photocall at the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Post your questions for Carol and Velvet Underground director Todd Haynes

    The influential director’s latest film, May December, is coming to cinemas soon. Here’s your chance to ask him about this and other provocative work, from Carol to I’m Not There
  • Sofía Otero as Cocó in 20,000 Species of Bees.

    ‘He was suffering a lot’: the tragic death behind uplifting trans drama 20,000 Species of Bees

  • ‘Loving films could be subversive’ … Ahmad Jorghanian inspects an old print in Celluloid Underground.

    Celluloid counter-revolution: a salute to the underground film lovers of Iran

  • Acting royalty … Michael Gambon as George V in The King's Speech (2010)

    Michael Gambon graced cinema and made every cameo a star turn

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Defiant … Ryan Gosling and fellow Kens.

    ‘They see Hollywood movies as a right’: the Russians breaking the law to watch Barbie

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