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Movies

  • Mohammad Rasoulof at the 70th Cannes film festival.

    Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging

    Rasoulof is one of Iran’s leading directors and his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig is due to premiere at Cannes film festival
  • Phedon Papamichael on the set of Downsizing in 2017.

    ‘We were the magicians’: cinematographer Phedon Papamichael on 40 years of film-making

  • ‘A menagerie of queer misfits living, loving, and fighting in a household which threatens to burst at the seams’: Housekeeping for Beginners.

    Housekeeping for Beginners review – a queer family’s fight to stay together

  • a blonde woman

    Susan Buckner, actor known for role in Grease, dies aged 72

  • Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – future simians swing through cinematic jungle

  • Dounble trouble … Parker Young and Sasha Pieterse in The Image of You.

    The Image of You review – schlocky erotic thriller is ripe with naffness

News

  • This image released by 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios shows Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in a scene from "Deadpool & Wolverine." (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios via AP)

    Disney to ‘focus on quality’ as it plans to cut output – including Marvel movies

  • Mark Hamill<br>Actor Mark Hamill takes off sunglasses given to him by President Joe Biden, as he joins White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as she speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Friday, May 3, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Star Wars’ Mark Hamill hails ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ after White House meeting

  • (l-r) Celeste O’Connor, Kumail Nanjiani, Finn Wolfhard and James Acaster in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

    ‘It’s about valuing their audience’: why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’

  • Barry Keoghan topless in Saltburn

    Keeping it clean: Hollywood sex scenes decline by 40%

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Reviews

  • Class of 1984 … Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

    Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – time to consign franchise to the spirit realm

  • a nun holding a candle with other nuns behind her

    Immaculate – Sydney Sweeney plays scream queen in gory nun horror

    The Euphoria breakout goes all-in with a fun, nasty slab of nunsploitation that also acts as commentary on female bodily autonomy
  • Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor face off in Road House.

    Road House – Conor McGregor almost steals riotous 80s remake

    Jake Gyllenhaal fills Patrick Swayze’s shoes in a brashly entertaining romp featuring a knockout debut from the UFC champ

  • Shirley – Regina King rises above dutiful, by-the-numbers biopic

  • Late Night With the Devil – demonic talkshow channels horror of 1970s TV

  • Irish Wish – Lindsay Lohan’s luck runs out in charmless romcom

  • Little Wing – Brian Cox wasted in underwhelming YA drama

  • You’ll Never Find Me – profoundly creepy and thrillingly bold Australian horror film

  • Cabrini – lushly mounted hagiography of the first US saint to be canonised

  • Damsel – Millie Bobby Brown goes Rambo in diverting Netflix adventure

  • Imaginary – a shoddy and unimaginative creepshow

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Video & audio

  • bed illustration

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

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

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

    The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76
  • Tyla performs during New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City.

    Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year

    Culture critics Peter Bradshaw, Tshepo Mokoena and Gwilym Mumford look ahead to the best of the year in film, TV and music
  • The South Korean actor was best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite

    1:28

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

  • In a scene from the film Barbie, Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, and Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, drive through the desert.

    Revisited: why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie? – podcast

  • Andre Braugher rose to fame on the NBC drama Homicide: Life on the Street before starring in the comedy hit show Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    1:48

    Andre Braugher's most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

  • Nicolas Cage in a scene from Dream Scenario

    Weekend podcast: Nicolas Cage, Marina Hyde on David Cameron’s return, plus cardiologists’ advice for a healthy heart

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Opinion

  • a young man and woman sit across from each other at a table, eating food

    Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

    Mike McCahill
  • 1988, BEETLEJUICE<br>MICHAEL KEATON Character(s): Beetlejuice Film 'BEETLEJUICE' (1988) Directed By TIM BURTON 29 March 1988 SSB5103 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (USA 1988) / Titel auch: "Lottergeist Beetlejuice" **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Laurent Cantet pictured in 2021.

    High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Anne Hathaway.

    Anne Hathaway is a secret Arsenal fan and now her reinvention is complete

    Stuart Heritage

  • Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco

  • Coppola, Lanthimos, Sorrentino: Cannes’ silverback gorillas shall slug it out at this year’s festival

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment

    Stuart Heritage

  • Best of frenemies: why Tom Ripley is a psychopath made for social media

    Peter Bradshaw

  • M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?

    Lanre Bakare

  • Oscars 2024: Who will win, who should win – and who was snubbed

    Peter Bradshaw

  • In LA, directors have clubbed together to save a landmark cinema. Why don’t Brits do the same?

    Mark Cousins
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Interviews

  • That They May Face the Rising Sun.

    ‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

  • Dowsing with witch-hazel … Josh O’Connor and his gang in La Chimera.

    ‘You struggled with my film? Fantastic!’ Alice Rohrwacher and her riotous new tomb-raiding tale

    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 bees
  • Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News<br>2RX0AGH Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

    Cara Delevingne: ‘It’s a lot easier now I’m not the new hot young thing’

    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 LA
  • Jennifer Connelly

    ‘I get a little stir-crazy’: Jennifer Connelly on David Bowie, working with family and going back to college

  • Josh O'Connor in a striped top, holding one hand to his head

    ‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’: actor Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers

  • ‘For all the anonymous outlaws’ … Dean Sameshima, Anonymous Homosexual (2020).

    Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes: the wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima

  • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

    Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I can’t be trusted around famous people’

Regulars

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian leaning against a pick-up.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance

  • Four images together, clockwise from top left: John Galliano standing in a doorway; Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel; Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face; Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: High & Low: John Galliano and the best films about fashion

  • Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

    Week in geek
    Star Wars – The Phantom Menace: still terrible after all these years?

  • Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox and Christopher Eccleston in Shallow Grave (1994).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture

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You may have missed

  • Anger-esque … still from Tarot, 1973, by Derek Jarman.

    Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes: Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films

  • Four weddings and a funeral

    ‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’ – the inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

    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’
  • (l-r) Celeste O’Connor, Kumail Nanjiani, Finn Wolfhard and James Acaster in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

    ‘It’s about valuing their audience’: why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’

    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 represented
  • ‘Baldwin discovered the cinema before he discovered books’ … the writer with Marlon Brando (centre) at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, with Charlton Heston (left) and Harry Belafonte (behind).

    ‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

  • "Dune: Part Two" World Premiere - Arrivals<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: Zendaya attends the World Premiere of "Dune: Part Two" in London's Leicester Square on February 15, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

    Can Zendaya make the leap from tween idol to Hollywood heavyweight?

  • ‘What Ryan has is a lack of insecurity about teasing himself, his stardom and his masculinity.’

    Evolution of man: how Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

  • A woman flexes her huge muscles before an audience

    Mixed doubles: why queer erotic sports cinema is enjoying a grand slam

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