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Film

  • 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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Reviews

  • Mia Goth, left, and Halsey in MaXXXine.

    MaXXXine review – a horribly watchable Hollywood tale of sex, death, fear and gore

  • Reunited … from left, John Ashton, Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories

  • Orlando, My Political Biography

    Orlando, My Political Biography review – Woolf’s trans hero gets a 21st-century mashup

  • Warm and open … l to r, Ben Hardy as Luke and Jason Patel as Aysha in Unicorns.

    Unicorns review – drama of queer south Asian club culture with added superstar drag queens

  • The Mummy review – Brendan Fraser’s action-adventure is as lovably goofy as ever

  • Kill review – ultraviolent Indian train thriller is finger-cracking good

  • The Conversation review – Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic

  • Cash Out review – John Travolta invests in Fast and Furious style failed-heist caper

  • The Imaginary review – charming anime about made-up best friends from former Ghibli protege

  • Space Cadet review – Emma Roberts joins Nasa in lazy streaming slop

  • Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

  • What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir

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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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What to watch

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM 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 MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

    Born on 4 July, one of the last true stars of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her centenary next week. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career
  • Civil War, Furiosa, The Fall Guy

    ‘Sexy, sweaty and surprising – with a really big ending’: readers’ best films of 2024 so far

    From jazzy anime to an unfilmable sci-fi epic, a poignant film without dialogue and the silliest LGBTQ+ movie you’ll ever see
  • CHINATOWN<br>FAYE DUNAWAY &amp; JACK NICHOLSON ARTWORK Film 'CHINATOWN' (1974) Directed By ROMAN POLANSKI 20 June 1974 SSS73474 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.

    Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?

  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Simba in The Lion King and Nancy Allen in Blow Out.

    ‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths

  • Terry Jones as Mr Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

    Fantasia to Flesh and Fantasy, the Coens to Cavalcanti: anthology films – ranked!

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black and Dev Patel in Monkey Man.

    The best films of 2024 in the UK so far

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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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You may have missed

  • white woman wearing white suit gestures at white woman wearing patterned shirt as a white man wearing a black suit and bowtie looks on

    Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

  • A mystical creature with horns looks menacingly at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

    Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?

    The trailer for Amazon’s reportedly troubled $250m action-comedy shows that it might just be weightless action mush
  • Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

    ‘I can see him now. I will see him forever’: Donald Sutherland remembered by Keira Knightley, Elliott Gould, Ralph Fiennes and more

    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
  • Tim Roth in Made in Britain.

    ‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain

  • Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan in The Lost King.

    What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?

  • RTE News Henry Winkler

    Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing

  • Britain's Forgotten Prisoners.

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

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Film genres

  • Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

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

    Ben Child
  • 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)

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

  • Underwhelming … John Travolta in Cash Out.

    Crime
    Cash Out review – John Travolta invests in Fast and Furious style failed-heist caper

  • Jason Patel and Ben Hardy in Unicorns.

    Drama
    Unicorns review – mechanic meets drag queen in touching drama with real-world edge

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