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Movies

  • ‘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

    The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024
  • ISS.

    ISS review – Ariana DeBose is ace as third world war sparks space station survival race

News

  • Laurent Cantet looks at the camera with a jacket over his shoulder

    Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63

  • How much am I bid? … Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually.

    Love Actually, Barbie and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child

  • Jennifer Aniston.

    A way to make a livin’: Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

  • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

    28 Years Later: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

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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

  • Anne Hathaway.

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

    Stuart Heritage
  • 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

  • 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
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Interviews

  • ‘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’

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’: Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

    The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judged
  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

    He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school
  • 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

  • ‘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

  • Hugo Weaving on Sydney Harbour

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

Regulars

  • Daisy Ridley as Fran in Sometimes I Think About Dying, standing uneasily in a doorway, looking at other people having a laugh Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. Ref: LMK110-J10392-141223 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2TD7TE2 USA. Daisy Ridley in a scene from the (C)Oscilloscope new movie : Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024). Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. Ref: LMK110-J10392-141223 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Sometimes I Think About Dying review – Daisy Ridley excels as shy office worker in offbeat comedy

  • 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

  • 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

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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’

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