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    Bill Nighy: ‘I have danced naked in my front room, but you need shoes to really spin’

    The star of The First Omen takes your questions on working as a chimney sweep, finessing his perfect sandwich – and hoping to die in a hail of bullets
  • Glorious movie debut … Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins

    Mary Poppins review – Disney’s entertainment sugar rush possesses thermonuclear brilliance

  • Adorable and cynical … Po (Jack Black) and Zhen (Awkwafina) in Kung Fu Panda 4

    Kung Fu Panda 4 review – Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit

  • A shelf of DVDs for sale

    ‘Rental places will surge back’: readers on the fight to preserve physical media

  • Exquisite … Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

    Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus review – a stark, emotional finale from master musician

  • Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in Kinds of Kindness.

    Kinds of Kindness: first trailer released for Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s next film

  • 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 10: Martin Scorsese attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

    Martin Scorsese to host and produce religious docuseries for Fox News

  • 2013, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE<br>TILDA SWINTON Character(s): Eve Film 'ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE' (2013) Directed By JIM JARMUSCH 25 May 2013 SAF21835 Allstar Collection/SODA PICTURES **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To SODA PICTURES is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use.

    Tilda Swinton bedtime story among Cinema for Gaza auction lots

  • ‘Grown into a wonderful actor’ …  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

    ‘Chops, talent and charisma’: Pierce Brosnan backs Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Bond

  • Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Allen White.

    The Bear is The Boss: Jeremy Allen White tipped to play Bruce Springsteen

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  • 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

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    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

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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

  • 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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  • Knives Out Premiere - LA, Los Angeles, United States - 14 Nov 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hahn Lionel/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (13113280ge) M. Emmet Walsh attends the premiere of "Knives Out" at Regency Village Theatre on November 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Knives Out Premiere - LA, Los Angeles, United States - 14 Nov 2019

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  • No whiteout this year … Robert Downey Jr (best supporting actor), Da'Vine Joy Randolph (best supporting actress), Emma Stone (best actress) and  Cillian Murphy (best actor).

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

    Lanre Bakare
  • Not everyone’s a winner … who will triumph at the Oscars?

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Tickets please … the group of film-makers who now own the Village Theater cinema.

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

    Mark Cousins
  • Shove over, Russell Crowe. No action hero has suffered like Sylvester Stallone

    Stuart Heritage
  • Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Furious jumping: why Henry Cavill is wrong to be cross with sex scenes

    Stuart Heritage
  • Ten years on from his death, Philip Seymour Hoffman still shines bright

    Peter Bradshaw
  • It’s in pole position, but Oppenheimer may not have it all its own way on Oscars night

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Baftas 2024: Oppenheimer’s passion and ambition stomps over the opposition once again

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Andrew Scott is right – it’s time to retire the phrase ‘openly gay’

    Ryan Gilbey
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  • Greg Wise sitting in front of a book case

    ‘I’m kinder and more compassionate’: actor Greg Wise on men and grief

  • A line of people walking across sand dunes

    ‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys

    How does it feel to risk trafficking and torture to seek a better life in a strange land? Directors including Matteo Garrone and Milad Alami are tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time
  • Gillian Anderson

    ‘I get into trouble’: Gillian Anderson on being brave, her resting face and much anticipated book of sexual fantasies

    Her uncanny portrayals of famous women have brought her legions of fans. Now, as she prepares to play Emily Maitlis in the pivotal Prince Andrew interview, the actor talks to Eva Wiseman about acting, soft drinks and ‘side hustles’
  • Isabelle Huppert

    Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’

  • Portrait of Brigitte Höss. She died in October 2023, and was the last person to remember what life was like in the villa at Auschwitz.

    ‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family

  • Imogen Poots

    Imogen Poots: ‘I once asked a young woman if she had heard of Laura Marling. She replied: “I am Laura Marling”’

  • man standing in front of a cinema with crowds behind him

    William Shatner: ‘Good science fiction is humanity, moved into a different milieu’

Regulars

  • Dog holding Robot's hands in a park.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Robot Dreams review – bittersweet buddy movie is one of the best animations in recent years

  • Four-picture composite of Only Yesterday; Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers; Matthew Perry, centre, in 17 Again; Sonsoles Aranguren and Lola Cardona in El Sur.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: All of Us Strangers and the best films that revisit childhood

  • Looks encouragingly familiar … Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus.

    Week in geek
    Can Alien: Romulus return the space saga to its chestbursting glory years?

  • 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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    ‘Dalí’s were unfilmable’: the astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale

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    The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’

    As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?
  • A line of people walking across sand dunes

    ‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys

    How does it feel to risk trafficking and torture to seek a better life in a strange land? Directors including Matteo Garrone and Milad Alami are tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time
  • Licensed to kill? Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Idris Elba and James Martin.

    Keoghan, Madden, James Martin: who should be James Bond, if Aaron Taylor-Johnson is out?

  • Gary Oldman as Cary Grant in North by Northwest

    Stars in disguise: behind the scenes with Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jerry Lewis – in pictures

  • Specs and a suit … Nighy was named as one of the best dressed over-50s in the Guardian.

    Post your questions for Bill Nighy

  • ‘She’d worked 13 days in a row and Ismail tried to cancel her weekend off’ … Emma Thompson with Anthony Hopkins in Howards End.

    ‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory

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