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Movies

  • BFFs … Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman at the UK Press Conference for Deadpool & Wolverine.

    ‘His skincare regime alone would bankrupt you’: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring banter and bromance to London

    Deadpool & Wolverine owes much to its characters riffing off a real-life 20-year friendship which, its stars say, is founded on mutual respect – for all its low blows and joviality
  • Woody Allen and Shelley Duvall in Annie Hall.

    ‘A magical being’: Shelley Duvall remembered by Woody Allen, Daryl Hannah and Michael Palin

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News

  • 1980, THE SHINING<br>SHELLEY DUVALL Character(s): Wendy Torrance Film 'THE SHINING' (1980) Directed By STANLEY KUBRICK 23 May 1980 SBB4889 Allstar/WARNER BROS. **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. 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 WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Shelley Duvall, star of The Shining and Annie Hall, dies aged 75

  • white man wearing cowboy hat points gun

    Kevin Costner’s Horizon sequel pulled from release after first film flops

  • Donkey, voiced by Eddie Murphy, and Shrek, voiced by Mike Myers. Both actors, as well as Cameron Diaz, have been confirmed to return in Shrek 5

    Shrek 5: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz returning for 2026 sequel

  • person wearing gold hat with pink, blue and white castle in the background

    Disney faces strike threat as thousands of California workers vote on walkout

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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

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

  • 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

    Frock horror! The ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala; reluctant star Josh O’Connor ​takes the lead in a new film, Challengers; Catherine Carr talks to boys about sex, pornography and feeling isolated and vulnerable; and Philippa Perry responds to a reader who is child-free.
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    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

  • 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

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Opinion

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

    Peter Bradshaw

  • 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
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Interviews

  • (l-r) Dorottya Zurbó, Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel, and Arun Bhattarai.

    ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

  • Alicia Witt, 2024

    ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

    The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents
  • The XXX factor … Mia Goth and Ti West.

    ‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority

    As his X trilogy concludes with MaXXXine – starring Mia Goth as a porn star pursued by a serial killer – the filmmaker explains how the demonisation of heavy metal fans ignited his youthful imagination
  • Dancers leaping in wild shapes

    ‘My flash kept blinding everyone on the dancefloor’: Elaine Constantine on capturing 90s northern soul all-nighters

  • 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?’

  • David Duchovny

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

Regulars

  • Eddie Murphy aiming a hand gun in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s megawatt charisma lights up creaking sequel

  • 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
  • From left: Willem Dafoe in Kathryn Bigelow’s debut feature, The Loveless (1981); her Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker (2008); Jessica Chastain in political thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

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You may have missed

  • (l-r) Dorottya Zurbó, Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel, and Arun Bhattarai.

    ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

  • woman with tattoos on her hands covers her face with her hands

    ‘How do we stop this?’ Inuit woman unpacks trauma of being twice colonized

    New documentary Twice Colonized follows human rights lawyer Aaju Peter as she looks back at how both she and her homeland were colonized by Europe
  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

    An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison
  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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

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