Post your questions for Carol and Velvet Underground director Todd Haynes
The influential director’s latest film, May December, is coming to cinemas soon. Here’s your chance to ask him about this and other provocative work, from Carol to I’m Not There
March 2023
Aliens, activists and art: the five best films added to US streaming this week
Highlights include Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, the prescient abortion drama Call Jane and Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
December 2022
Leave Elf on the shelf: why Carol should be at the top of everyone’s Christmas movie list
Todd Haynes’ bittersweet jewel has glam Cate Blanchett and ingenue Rooney Mara falling in love in the tinselly 50s, a must for sophisticated festive film fans
June 2020
TV tonight
TV tonight: timeless Talking Heads from Alan Bennett
Imelda Staunton kicks off this timely reboot of the Bennett’s peerless monologues. Plus: Bake Off: The Professionals. Here’s what to watch this evening
August 2019
Steve Rose on film
Retro active: why film-makers are getting stuck in the past
New movie Bait’s rejection of digital technology could open up new paths to creative expression
September 2018
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
The elusive L in LGBT: where to find the best lesbian films online
Women are not well served in LGBT cinema but two niche networks are attempting to redress the balance
June 2018
How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future
A wave of quietly revolutionary films are taking a thoughtful and celebratory look at queer identity – and reaping the rewards at the box office
March 2018
My favourite film decade
From Boyhood to Get Out – why the 2010s is my favourite film decade
The last seven years has given us career bests from visionary veterans and a horde of hungry up-and-comers ready to drag Hollywood into modernity. The death of cinema? We’ve never had it so good
November 2016
Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy to script Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta film
Nagy has taken on writing duties for the movie, which will be the first big-screen outing for the forensics specialist and hero of 24 crime novels
May 2016
Film blog
Carol left me cold – but a new movie has restored my faith in lesbian cinema
Julie Bindel
All About E is a genuine love story which manages to captivate without being tragic or overly sentimental
March 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Carol; Steve Jobs; Black Mass; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 and more – review
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara burn with desire, while Michael Fassbender and Johnny Depp make a pair of cold fish
Charlie Lyne's home entertainment
My Beautiful Broken Brain: a painfully literal addition to the inspirational recovery canon
This new Netflix doc uses gaudy special effects to convey the impact of Lotje Sodderland’s stroke, but her story would have been engaging enough on its own
Carol named best LGBT film of all time
Todd Haynes’ lesbian love story, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, tops poll of more than 100 experts
February 2016
Film blog
Spotlight and The Revenant deserve their Oscars – but where were Carol's?
Oscars 2016: full list of Academy Award nominations
The week in books
A new chapter in cinema: why books are big at the 2016 Oscars
Might Charlotte Rampling pull off the biggest upset in Oscar history?
Box office analysis: UK
Oscars 2016: forget best picture – who won the box-office battle?
Hateful Eight cinematographer calls for new 'effects-free' Oscars category
Film blog
The Revenant mauls the opposition at 2016 Baftas – the ceremony as it happened
