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  • Beeban Kidron with a dark long bob haircut and wearing a crisp white shirt, rests her hand near her mouth, looking at the camera

    ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’

    In her work as an online safety campaigner, the baroness and Bridget Jones director has seen things she can never unsee – and she’s furious at the tech overlords doing nothing to stop the abuse
  • Drag queens

    ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film

  • 'Obsession' premiere, Hollywood Legion Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA - 11 May 2026Curry Barker, Inde Navarrette and Michael Johnston 'Obsession' premiere, Hollywood Legion Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA - 11 May 2026

    Obsessed with Obsession: how a low-budget horror changed the game in Hollywood

  • Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni sit face to face on a rooftop with city lights behind them

    Blake Lively awarded legal fees but no damages in Justin Baldoni dispute

  • A woman in a blue top sits among framed photographs, resting her head on her hand

    ‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing

  • Nicholas Galitzine in fantasy costume holds a smoking futuristic weapon with a large barrel

    double quotation markMasters of the Universe is a box office flop. Can they really be serious about a sequel?

    Ben Child
  • USA. Diane Keaton in a scene from (C)Gravitas Ventures new film: Mack & Rita (2022) . Plot: A 30-year-old writer (Elizabeth Lail) spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self (Diane Keaton). Ref: LMK110-J8247-120822 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.com2JPDWMJ USA. Diane Keaton in a scene from (C)Gravitas Ventures new film: Mack & Rita (2022) . Plot: A 30-year-old writer (Elizabeth Lail) spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self (Diane Keaton). Ref: LMK110-J8247-120822 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

    Diane Keaton’s nail clippers for $960: what’s behind the new boom in celebrity estate auctions?

  • Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day.

    Disclosure Day – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular

  • RuPaul in blond wig and red blazer sitting at Resolute Desk, with man in black suit standing behind her holding official-looking folder.

    Stop! That! Train! - RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot

  • man sitting on couch with headphones as ghostface sneaks up behind him with knife

    Scary Movie – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s

  • Nicholas Galitzine in Masters of the Universe standing with a sword

    Masters of the Universe – Amazon’s He-Man adventure is a weak big-budget misfire

  • A male and a female actor in a boardroom setting.

    Office Romance – Jennifer Lopez’s romcom return is too much like hard work

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor in a brown shirt stands in a doorway looking at a sparse yellow-lit room

    Backrooms – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook

  • Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott talking to each other in Pressure

    Pressure – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama

  • A still from The Breadwinner

    The Breadwinner – Nate Bargatze’s dated dad comedy loses us entirely

  • man in bloodied sweatshirt looks ahead

    Obsession – nasty horror sees a wish for true love go horribly wrong

  • A still from I Love Boosters showing four women in colorful outfits standing in front of a car

    I Love Boosters – Boots Riley’s absurdist shoplifting comedy is a mixed bag

  • Helen Mirren with short silver hair smiles at the camera outdoors near the sea

    Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London

  • Steven Spielberg, smiling with gray hair, beard, and round glasses, wears a black suit at an event

    ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice

  • Peter Weir speaks at a Sydney film festival podium

    Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival

  • Glenn Close smiling

    Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey

    double quotation markWhat the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks?

    Chris Cotonou
  • Cristian Mungiu in a tuxedo holds up the Palme d'Or trophy in its presentation case

    Cannes film festival
    double quotation markCannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos in Venice, Italy, June 2025.

    double quotation markIs Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

    Louis Staples
  • Man with Jheri curl and elevator-attendant-style jacket stands on riser in middle of New York City street with dozens on hands in the air reaching toward him.

    double quotation markMichael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy

    Jesse Hassenger
  • Toby Stephens wearing a white shirt, no tie, and a blue suit, smiling at the camera with his left hand in his pocket

    Toby Stephens: ‘I lost my dad to cirrhosis. The only difference between us was that, tragically, he couldn’t stop drinking’

  • ‘Being on a tablet is not playing with a toy. It’s playing with dopamine’ … Woody and Buzz confront Lilypad in Toy Story 5.

    ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails

  • Peter Asher in his office

    Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’

  • Three people in wetsuits stand on surfboards holding coloured smoke flares in a narrow canal between tall cliffsTurning 180 Studios' underground spaces into an alternative world where machines and bodies, storytelling and sensation collide, the exhibition includes premieres of seven new short films and a new immersive sound installation, as well as unseen footage and alternative scenes from Gener8ion visuals past and present. Continuing to build out their cinematic world, Gener8ion collaborate with Yung Lean, 070 Shake, Yannis from Foals, Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron, acclaimed choreographer Damien Jalet, and hundreds of skittish, charismatic characters, in a living laboratory of art, sound and performance.

    ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras

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