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Movies

  • Erica Tremblay in New York City.

    ‘We’re really funny people’: Native American director Erica Tremblay on Lily Gladstone, laughter for survival and breaking Hollywood

    The film-maker talks about her friendship with her debut feature’s star, and why the industry has woken up to her culture’s storytelling
  • David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981); Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024); Shauna Macdonald in The Descent (2005).

    Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies

  • Jessica Alba in Trigger Warning

    Trigger Warning review – Jessica Alba returns in solid Netflix action vehicle

  • Film still of a man with cuts on his face looking off to the side in a room with blue lighting

    The Exorcism review – Russell Crowe v the Devil in cursed horror about a cursed horror

  • Sutherland as President Snow in The Hunger Games, 2012; he went on to feature in three more films in the franchise.

    Donald Sutherland obituary

  • David Duchovny.

    Post your questions for David Duchovny

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News

  • view of the cinemas red and grey facade with panels lit up

    Paris arthouse cinema La Clef to reopen after buyout from squatters’ collective

  • Kevin Costner in a scene from Yellowstone.

    Kevin Costner announces he is leaving Yellowstone

  • Donald Sutherland.

    Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88

  • The Prince Charles Cinema in central London.

    London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash

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Reviews

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

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

  • Woman wearing patterned top looks at man wearing grey shirt

    Mother of the Bride – Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

    More background fluff from the streamer, this time from Mean Girls director Mark Waters with a splashy Thailand location
  • Dounble trouble … Parker Young and Sasha Pieterse in The Image of You.

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

    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 charm

  • The Fall Guy – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

  • Tarot – disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror

  • The Idea of You – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance

  • Unfrosted – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

  • Prom Dates – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster

  • Turtles All the Way Down – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film

  • Boy Kills World – ripped Bill Skarsgård shows he’s got brutal action chops

  • Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

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Video & audio

  • 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

  • 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

    It’s the Christian Horner paradox, according to Marina Hyde: F1 is now hideously dull, but it’s never been more dramatic; if you kill someone in your sleep, is it murder?; and ‘What a ridiculous question!’ How fawning, and 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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Opinion

  • Donald Sutherland & Sharon Williams Film: Don'T Look Now (UK/IT 1973) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Book By Daphne Du Maurier) Director: Nicolas Roeg 11 October 1973 CTH26809 Allstar Picture Library/CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): John Baxter & Christine Baxter

    Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘I think the point is to make us despair’ … Russell Crowe in The Exorcism (left), and in The Pope's Exorcist

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

    Stuart Heritage
  • Dolce Vita, La - 1960<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Riama-Pathe/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886006al) Anouk Aimee Dolce Vita, La - 1960 Director: Federico Fellini Riama-Pathe ITALY Film Portrait Drama

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Mickey Mouse in a 1928 version of Steamboat Willie.

    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

  • Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Mike McCahill

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

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • 'I stay positive’ … Lhakpa Sherpa.

    ‘My heart does not have any other job’: Lhakpa Sherpa, the record-breaking Nepalese climber who cleans houses in Connecticut

  • Actor, comedian and doctor Ken Jeong

    Ken Jeong: ‘I’d make a horrible spy. I would betray someone very quickly’

    The comedian, actor and physician answers your questions on his worst heckles, playing a chicken and why Dick Van Dyke made him cry
  • 'GREEN BORDER by Agnieszka Holland

    ‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right

    The director has long explored the darkest corners of European life. Now her latest drama Green Border has caused outrage in her homeland – and become an unlikely box office hit
  • Lunch With Isabella Tree Observer Food Monthly OFM June 2024

    Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • Stephen Fry.

    Stephen Fry: ‘The Conservatives are what we call in poker a busted flush’

  • Jesse Plemons

    ‘I don’t want to take these characters home’: Jesse Plemons on life playing the psychopath next door

  • Amy Poehler

    Amy Poehler: ‘If we want young people to fix everything, why do we make fun of them?’

Regulars

  • Jesse Eisenberg in Sasquatch Sunset.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving

  • David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981); Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024); Shauna Macdonald in The Descent (2005).

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies

  • ‘Stirrings in Tolkien land’ … Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom and Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002

    Week in geek
    Hunt for Gollum: are Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen being quietly dropped?

  • David Cronenberg in Cannes last month for the premiere of his latest film, The Shrouds.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

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You may have missed

  • Tim Roth in Made in Britain.

    ‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain

  • Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan in The Lost King.

    What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?

    The appetite for drama based on real events seems insatiable, but a preliminary ruling that a British film defamed the original of one of its characters – along with legal action against Baby Reindeer – may give producers pause for thought
  • RTE News Henry Winkler

    Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing

    Henry Winkler praised his rescuers, Chloë Sevigny talked us through her outfit, Baz Luhrmann gave dating advice – without all being recognised! They are just like us after all
  • Britain's Forgotten Prisoners.

    Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

  • A black-and-white image of seven young men and women seated and standing at a bistro table with a checked tablecloth and roundback chairs, laughing uproariously.

    Looking back on life in the Brat Pack: ‘It never existed in any real way’

  • A man and woman caress each others' faces on the dancefloor

    Bringing sexy back: how Hollywood suddenly got horny again

  • ‘Rewilding teaches you to let go’ … Isabella Tree at the Knepp nature reserve in West Sussex.

    ‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding

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