Seduced by Sam Taylor-Johnson’s woozy Amy Winehouse biopic and kicked into tomorrow by Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, we replay six fantastic months of film
May 2024
‘We pushed each other’: Yorgos Lanthimos’s alternate view of Poor Things – in pictures
The maverick director and Emma Stone reflect on how they took their creative collaboration to the next level – by developing a brilliantly bizarre photobook
Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things
The maverick director and his trusted company of actors on making Kinds of Kindness, the ‘bonkers’ film causing a stir on the Croisette
Keeping it clean: Hollywood sex scenes decline by 40%
Since the millennium, there is substantially less erotic content on our screens – with changing audience tastes and ‘intimacy coordinators’ to blame
March 2024
Kinds of Kindness: first trailer released for Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s next film
Five of the best
Five of the best books about the Victorians
Is Poor Things a feminist film? Is Barbie? These have become meaningless questions
Beatrice Loayza
Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps awards as it takes best picture, director and actor – as it happened
‘My dress is broken – I think it happened during I’m Just Ken’: the best quotes of the 2024 Oscars
Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar for Poor Things
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
Poor Things to Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
What can we learn from 2024’s brutally honest Oscar ballots?
Oscar predictions 2024: who will win, who should win – and who was snubbed
Peter Bradshaw
Oscars 2024: best picture nominees – reviews, awards and where to watch
And the winner for best book that inspired a best picture nominee is …
February 2024
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Poor Things should win the best picture Oscar
This scabrous and risky melodrama, with a magnificent performance by Emma Stone, is an object lesson in real art rising above social media scolding
Suffering for her tart: how Emma Stone ate 60 Portuguese custard pastries for Poor Things
Stuart Heritage
The race for best actress Oscar is a tight one, so it’s important to understand that Stone really did stuff herself for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s movie
Baftas 2024: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – as it happened
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw’s Baftas predictions: which films will win – and which should?
