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SpongeBob has been around for 25 years, but it’s not just kids keeping it afloat
It’s meant to be a kids’ franchise, but young adults are still lapping it up. What is it about this yellow sponge that has Gen Z in a chokehold?
- by Nell Geraets
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‘Tiring as hell, but great fun’: 94-year-old June Squibb finally has the role of a lifetime
She started as a 19-year-old tap dancer, was nominated for an Oscar when she was 84 and now has her first lead role, but June Squibb wouldn’t have it any other way.
- by Louise Rugendyke
‘The Brits made us feel like it was a peasant language’: Kneecap’s rebellious rise to power
The real-life story of a rap trio from Belfast and their fight to save the Irish language has become one of the year’s hottest films.
- by Thomas Mitchell
A woman, her stepson and the film that shocked France
Female sexual taboos have offered rich pickings for filmmakers. But this time around, a familiar tale caused outrage in Cannes.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
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The kids are not all right in American Pie director’s classic horror thriller
Chris Weitz was part of the team behind the raunchy 1990s comedy, but his new film Afraid proves how times have changed.
- by Jake Wilson
Priscilla at 30: How queens of the desert made Australian film history
The people behind the cinematic legend relive the colour and chaos behind the scenes – and how one casting misstep might have changed everything.
- by Michael Idato
There’s a new generation of cinema lovers. If only they knew how to behave
We get it, you love movies. Now please stop making it a competition and let us enjoy the cinema in peace.
- by Nell Geraets
★★½
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This remake of cult-classic The Crow is surprisingly not a total disaster
The screenwriters of the latest Crow film haven’t retained too much from previous versions of the material beyond the title and the basic premise.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★½
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Hot studio A24’s latest hyped horror is short on gore, long on vibes
I Saw the TV Glow is closer in spirit to angsty tone poems such as The Virgin Suicides and Moonlight than to anything meant to be scary.
- by Jake Wilson
Why do movie villains have the best houses?
Forget the down-at-heel motel room – these days, the sophisticated cinema baddie is far more at home in a modernist masterpiece.
- by Simmone Howell
The return of Smell-O-Vision: How cinemas are stimulating the five senses
It might be low-tech, but there is an audience for watching a movie with accompanying smells. It’s one of many ways cinemas are enhancing the viewing experience.
- by Garry Maddox