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Movies

  • Location, location, location … a scene from House of the Dragon, part of which is filmed in Cornwall.

    ‘We made the Maldives from a hotel in Heathrow airport’: Hollywood location scouts reveal their secrets

    Globe-trotting in search of picture-perfect scenes for the screen is not always as glamorous as it sounds. But to better understand these unsung heroes’ shadowy art, you first have to track them down …
  • A scene from the hit Thai film How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    Golden age for south-east Asian cinema as local films break box office records

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

    Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

  • Terry Jenkins

    Terry Jenkins obituary

  • BESTPIX - "Despicable Me 4" Photocall In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 24: Steve Carell attends the "Despicable Me 4" photocall with the Mega Minions on London's Southbank on June 24, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Sama Kai/Dave Benett/WireImage)

    ‘Beyond marketing, beyond explanation’: how Inside Out and Despicable Me saved the summer

  • Kevin Bacon.

    ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’

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News

  • 81st Golden Globe Awards<br>Lily Gladstone accepts the award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for "Killers of the Flower Moon" at the 81st Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. on January 7, 2024. Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Lily Gladstone likens Golden Globes to Squid Game: ‘You’re in shapewear, you need to pee’

  • FILE PHOTO: Logo of Paramount Pictures<br>FILE PHOTO: The logo of Paramount Pictures studios is pictured in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 24, 2023. REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo

    Paramount and Skydance squeak closer to merger deal

  • Benoît Jacquot in 2019.

    French prosecutors ask for rape charges against film director Benoît Jacquot

  • portrait of man wearing black shirt in front of taupe backdrop

    Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89

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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

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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

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Opinion

  • Donald Sutherland &amp; Sharon Williams Film: Don'T Look Now (UK/IT 1973) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Book By Daphne Du Maurier) Director: Nicolas Roeg 11 October 1973 CTH26809 Allstar Picture Library/CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): John Baxter &amp; Christine Baxter

    Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘I think the point is to make us despair’ … Russell Crowe in The Exorcism (left), and in The Pope's Exorcist

    Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage
  • Dolce Vita, La - 1960<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Riama-Pathe/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886006al) Anouk Aimee Dolce Vita, La - 1960 Director: Federico Fellini Riama-Pathe ITALY Film Portrait Drama

    Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Mickey Mouse in a 1928 version of Steamboat Willie.

    After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

    Stuart Heritage

  • Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!

    Stuart Heritage

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

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

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Stuart Heritage

  • 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
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Interviews

  • Tilda Swinton, left, and Julio Torres pose for a portrait in New York to promote their film "Problemista" on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

    ‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets

  • ‘People are recognising the power of drag’ … Jason Patel in Unicorns.

    Unicorns star Jason Patel: ‘If you don’t toot your own horn, who else will?’

    In queer love story Unicorns, the young British actor plays a dazzling drag queen living two lives. He talks about his road to performing, family pride, and the need for a thick skin
  • David Duchovny

    David Duchovny: ‘I’m not just throwing on a kilt willy-nilly’

    The actor and musician answers your questions on Twin Peaks, that song by Catatonia and the importance of failure
  • From left: Kiran Shah with Elijah Wood on the set of The Fellowship of the Ring, in costume as Superman and dressed as an Ewok.

    Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life of Kiran Shah – the world’s smallest stuntman

  • ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY - press film still - Orlando trio

    ‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

Regulars

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

    Week in geek
    James Bond has an Andrew Tate problem. The answer is to set it in the 1960s

    Ben Child
  • David Cronenberg in Cannes last month for the premiere of his latest film, The Shrouds.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

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    He was a screen icon who could transform a film. Co-stars and directors of the great actor, who died last week aged 88, recall his warmth, erudition – and love of filthy jokes
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    Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing

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    Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

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