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  • Karla Sofía Gascón at Cannes.

    Trans actor Karla Sofía Gascón sues French far-right politician after ‘sexist insult’

    The actor, who became the first transgender woman to win the best actress prize at Cannes, had earlier dedicated her award to ‘all the trans people who are suffering’
  • Sting Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Sting review – low-budget alien-spider horror offers laughs and out-of-your-skin shocks

  • Deadly drop-in … Sporrer and rattlesnake.

    The Girl in the Trunk review – claustrophobic car-boot kidnap thriller

  • New Life Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    New Life review – stripped-back virus thriller goes hard on bubo-popping horror

  • man in a baseball cap and a pale grey jacket

    Ron Howard on Jim Henson: ‘You could see there was nothing to hide’

  • HARD MILES, Matthew Modine, 2023. © Blue Fox Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WTNG76 HARD MILES, Matthew Modine, 2023. © Blue Fox Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection Film still

    Hard Miles review – Matthew Modine takes troubled teens on a 700-mile cycle marathon

News

  • The 80-year-old actor was present outside the courthouse in New York as part of Joe Biden's re-election campaign

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    Robert De Niro calls Donald Trump ‘a clown’ outside hush-money trial – video

  • Burglar alarmed … the Home Alone house for sale.

    Basketball court, home cinema – but no booby traps: Home Alone house on sale for $5.25m

  • Richard Dreyfuss in 2023.

    ‘We deeply regret the distress’: cinema apologises for Richard Dreyfuss comments at Jaws screening

  • Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Furiosa and Garfield fail to save US box office from worst Memorial Day since 1995

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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

    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

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Opinion

  • A composite of five images: a young white couple canoodling on a park bench, a scary white mask in a black hood, a white man holding up a young white woman's arm on a stage as if she's just won something, a white man on a motorcycle speeding on a road, and a cartoon cowboy.

    Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story?
    What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • Morgan Spurlock at the Los Angeles premiere of his Super Size Me in 2004

    Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Who’s smiling now? The Mona Lisa and The Garfield Movie, one of which attracts millions of viewers a year, and one of which children want to see.

    Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage
  • Corman at Cannes in 2011.

    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

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

    Stuart Heritage

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

    Charles Bramesco

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

    Peter Bradshaw

  • 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
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Interviews

  • ‘I try to stay away from self-pity’ … Nan Goldin in her apartment in Brooklyn.

    ‘These are chilling McCarthyist times’: Nan Goldin on her shame over Gaza – and the film that made people faint

  • Actor and writer Paterson Joseph

    ‘I was told I was stupid’: Peep Show’s Paterson Joseph on his debut novel – and writing three operas

    He starred in Peep Show, Green Wing and Wonka – and his first novel won an award. Now the star is making operas with 64 homeless people. Not bad going for someone who was written off by his teachers
  • Rino Barillari in front of a poster for Fellini's La Dolce Vita

    ‘I was born to be a paparazzo’: Rino Barillari on royalty, the dolce vita era and his run-in with Depardieu

    The Italian photographer is no stranger to altercations, but when he set off for Harry’s Bar, it had been a while since his last celebrity contretemps
  • Valeria Golino in white shirt standing outside in Cannes.

    Valeria Golino: ‘I’m not a man-hater. I am a lover of men’

  • Bruce Joel Rubin holding an umbrella with pictures of birds and grassland on it.

    ‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’: Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish

  • Jane Asher with her specially commissioned cake to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday in 2014

    Jane Asher: ‘Would I do another nude scene? Never say never!’

  • George MacKay.

    ‘I identified with those worries’: George MacKay on masculinity, misogyny and playing an incel

Regulars

  • USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 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>2X0RXFY USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 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
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – renegade warrior Anya Taylor-Joy ignites thunderous action prequel

  • Dev Patel in Monkey Man, Isabelle Huppert in Elle, and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Monkey Man and the best revenge movies

  • Chris Pine, Paul Wesley and William Shatner as Star Trek character Captain Kirk

    Week in geek
    Shatner, Pine, or a Kirk triple whammy: where should Star Trek boldly go next?

  • Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox and Christopher Eccleston in Shallow Grave (1994).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture

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  • The Matrix.

    Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema

  • Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos waving on the red carpet at a film premire at Cannes

    The most political apolitical festival ever? Here’s how Cannes 2024 went – and who will win

    There were no overt boycotts this year, but there were entries about theocracy, Trump and the far right. There was still room for love, though – and sex. Here’s who I think will win, and my alternative ‘Braddies’ awards
  • side by side images of men in suits, one younger, one older

    ‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics

    Trump has spoken out against The Apprentice, but he’s not the first celebrity to attack an unflattering big-screen portrait
  • Mesmerising and mystifying … Scénarios, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

    Breathless goodbye: the race to finish Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, one day before he died

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    ‘It was a horrific night’: 30 years on from the on-set death of Brandon Lee

  • This image released by 20th Century Studios shows Noa, played by Owen Teague, in a scene from "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes." (20th Century Studios via AP)

    Hanging around: how Planet of the Apes became Hollywood’s most resilient franchise

  • Rocky Taylor - stuntman

    Risk and reward: life as a stunt double

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