Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Movies

  • He won’t be back … Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man, 1987

    Can genre-buster Edgar Wright breathe new life into The Running Man?

    The pun-packed, Arnie-starring original that strayed wildly from the Stephen King book, is one trashy 80s sci-fi romp that could actually benefit from a remake
  • Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence, co-producers of Bread & Roses.

    ‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’: Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban

  • Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

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

  • Refreshing, nonjudgmental frankness … Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love)

    Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love) review – refreshingly nonjudgmental infidelity romcom

  • Alisha Weir as Abigail in Abigail, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett.

    Abigail review – Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Martin Scorsese to revive Frank Sinatra biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio

News

  • Warwick Davis and his wife, Samantha, centre, with Harrison, left, and Annabelle in London in 2022.

    ‘My soul mate’: Warwick Davis pays tribute to wife Samantha who has died aged 53

  • Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt

    Quentin Tarantino scraps plans for his final film – reports

  • Riz Ahmed in Dammi, showing at the Muslim international festival 2024

    Lineup announced for UK’s inaugural Muslim international film festival

  • Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in The Apprentice.

    Donald Trump biopic and new films by Yorgos Lanthimos and Andrea Arnold to premiere at Cannes

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

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

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

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

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Opinion

  • two people in vests that say press

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

    Charles Bramesco
  • Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Great on paper … Ewan and Clara McGregor in Bleeding Love.

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

    Stuart Heritage
  • Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley.

    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

  • 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
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Interviews

  • ‘I remember the feeling of being with him, the brightness of that, the warmth’ … Shannon with Bruce.

    Life without Bruce and Brandon: Shannon Lee on losing her superstar father and brother

  • Claudia Jessie

    ‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats

    Being cast as a scheming toff in the global phenomenon Bridgerton was a surprise for Claudia Jessie. Fiercely proud of her roots, the Brummie talks about etiquette lessons, getting too many tattoos and why working-class actors so often get a rough deal
  • Hugo Weaving on Sydney Harbour

    Hugo Weaving: ‘This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done’

    Thirty years after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert thrust him on to the international stage, the actor discusses tiring of Hollywood villains and his most challenging role yet
  • ‘In the entertainment industry there is the strange sense that if you’re dealing with fiction then it’s not going to affect the world’ … Ruben Östlund.

    Triangle of Sadness director Ruben Östlund: ‘You should need a licence to use a camera – you need one for a gun’

  • Keith Allen in a white T-shirt and black jacket, holding a pair of yellow-tinted glasses.

    Keith Allen: ‘Your implication is my life’s a failure and I’d be happier had I lost my manhood’

  • Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage in Red Eye.

    ‘The roles on offer were prostitute or takeaway worker’: How Jing Lusi defied racist stereotypes – and became a star

  • Eiko Ishibashi.

    ‘Anger compels me forward’: Drive My Car composer Eiko Ishibashi on evil, experimentation and exploding genre

Regulars

  • Kirsten Dunst as a frontline photographer in Civil War.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Civil War review – Alex Garland’s chilling dystopian thriller of journalists in a conflict-riven US

  • Clockwise from top left: 'foodie foreplay' with Juliette Binocheand Benoît Magimel in The Taste of Things; Marc Anthony, Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci in Big Night; Babette's Feast; the 'pure sensory spectacle' of Eat, Drink, Man, Woman.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: The Taste of Things and the best films about food

  • He won’t be back … Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man, 1987

    Week in geek
    Can genre-buster Edgar Wright breathe new life into The Running Man?

  • Film director Celine Sciamma

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Céline Sciamma, the auteur who finds the universal in the unique

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

You may have missed

  • People watching a film at The Cinema Museum, Kennington, London

    ‘David Lynch had to personally approve the screening’: the film clubs driving the celluloid revival

  • Derek Jarman’s home at Dungeness

    Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures

    Photography: inside Derek Jarman’s home
  • Magic Returns to Disneyland Park as Theme Parks Plan to Reopen April 30<br>ANAHEIM, CA - AUGUST 27: Mickey Mouse poses in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park on August 27, 2019 in Anaheim, California. Disneyland plans to reopen on April 30, 2021. (Photo Joshua Sudock/Walt Disney World Resorts via Getty Images)

    A Tarzan deathtrap and an 80ft Goofy: prepare for your tour of scrapped Disneyland rides

    A recent auction of designs – including a Pinocchio-themed flume and Anything Can Happen Land – shows how much Disney has changed. But what might the next generation of attractions look like?
  • Cue jingle … Star Wars Cerveza Cristal beer edit, part of a 2003 campaign in Chile called Stop the Zapping

    May the fizz be with you: how a $10 Chilean beer ad took on Star Wars

  • Dave Taylor at 20th Century Flicks, Bristol

    ‘We’re the last bastion of rental’: the video stores resisting the rise of streaming

  • Kirsten Dunst in Civil War

    From Scoop to Civil War: why is it so hard to portray journalism on screen?

  • Terence Stamp as Bernadette Bassenger beside Priscilla the bus in the 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed