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  • Scenes from the 1984 nuclear attack drama Threads

    ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on

    Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984
  • Portrait of Demi Moore with long dark hair and wearing a tuxedo jacket

    ‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet

  • Hugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig

    The British are coming, again! Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant set for Oscars face-off

  • Uglies<br>UGLIES. Joey King as Tally in UGLIES. Cr. Brian Douglas/Netflix © 2024

    Uglies review – Netflix’s drab and dated YA dystopian mess is not pretty

  • Spoiler alert … Ian McKellan as Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

    Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch

  • Killer charm … James McAvoy in Speak No Evil.

    Speak No Evil review – James McAvoy gives roaring life to red-blooded holiday horror

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News
  • A parent and a child sit next to each other and show each other their phone screens

    Documentary producers release new ethical AI guidelines for film-makers

  • Selena Gomez pictured on the red carpet at Toronto international film festival on Monday

    Selena Gomez reveals she’s unable to carry her own children due to health risks

  • GABRIEL S FIRE<br>UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 12: GABRIEL’S FIRE - gallery - Season One - 9/12/90, James Earl Jones played Gabriel Bird, a former Chicago police officer, who had been wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment for his partner’s murder., (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images)

    James Earl Jones, revered actor and voice of Star Wars’ Darth Vader, dies aged 93

  • Nicole Kidman with her mother Janelle Kidman (left) in December 2018 in Sydney.

    Nicole Kidman says her ‘heart is broken’ after death of mother Janelle

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Reviews
  • The Alien attacking a woman in the dark

    Alien: Romulus – grungy, back-to-basics instalment goes over same old ground

  • Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg in The Union.

    The Union – Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg heat up Netflix action flick

    The stars’ rapport helps retain your interest in a preposterous international caper that has something vaguely to do with justice
  • John Cena and Awkwafina in Jackpot!

    Jackpot! - Awkwafina and John Cena strapped into stunt-heavy action comedy

    The efforts of a strong cast to make a future dystopia into knockabout fun result in a discordant mismash of general ridiculousness

  • Coraline – delightfully creepy coming-of-age fantasy offers more than just scares

  • It Ends with Us – Blake Lively anchors glossy romance adaptation

  • Borderlands – Cate Blanchett is wasted in janky video game adventure

  • Cuckoo – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

  • Daughters – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

  • Trap – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess

  • Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie – another enjoyably madcap SpongeBob adventure

  • The Instigators – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

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Video & audio

  • A look back at the formidable career of James Earl Jones – video obituary

  • Alain Delon was an icon of 20th century cinema who lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of France’s greatest directors

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    Alain Delon: a look back at the actor's prolific career – video

    Alain Delon was an icon of 20th century cinema who lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of France’s greatest directors
  • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

    What’s the deal with celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies? This week, Chanté chats to actor and crypto-skeptic Ben McKenzie, star of The OC and Gotham, about how cryptocurrencies infiltrated Hollywood and his transition from actor to investigative journalist
  • Guardian G2<br>Victoria Pendleton, photographed by Suki Dhanda for The Guardian, January 2024 MUST CREDIT MAKE-UP - DINA CATCHPOLE

    Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters? – podcast

  • Charli XCX

    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

  • 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

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Opinion
  • James Earl Jones, actor, who is appearing in an all black version of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at Novello Theatre. Commissioned for Arts

    James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who inspired both love and respect

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Closing Ceremony - 81st Venice Film Festival<br>epa11592227 Spanish director and screenwriter Pedro Almodovar holds the Golden Lion award for his movie 'The Room Next Door' during the closing ceremony of the 81st annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 07 September 2024. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI

    Venice 2024: Almodóvar’s first major festival win is richly deserved – and epically overdue

    Xan Brooks
  • Resplendent … Julianne Moore, Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton at the Venice film festival premiere of The Room Next Door

    Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

  • film still of two women wearing sunglasses and straw hats

    Blink Twice and the problem with #MeToo thrillers

    Adrian Horton

  • Bennifer is over – again. But why does Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s divorce feel so sad?

    Sian Cain

  • Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Gena Rowlands: the fiercest, most incandescent star of US indie cinema

  • Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

    Adrian Horton

  • ‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

  • Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

    Guy Lodge

  • Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

    Pamela Hutchinson

  • Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

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Interviews
  • Amrit Kaur and Kya Mosey in The Queen of My Dreams.

    Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’

  • Eddie Marsan shot for OM

    Sunday with Eddie Marsan: ‘My potatoes are legendary’

    The actor talks about Motown and meditation, and divulges his secrets for really crispy, fluffy spuds
  • Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

    The Spanish film-maker on the raw, real life experiences behind his first collection of short stories – and why his mother is his inspiration
  • BTS for the film In Camera. Naqqash Khalid

    In Camera writer-director Naqqash Khalid: ‘The film industry is a circus’

  • Kim Cattrall

    Kim Cattrall: ‘I’ve had a life’s experience – I want to bring it on board’

  • James McAvoy in a black short-sleeved top, sitting with his arms stretched out in front of him on a white table

    ‘I’ve failed, badly – and I’m good with it’: James McAvoy on class, comfort and carnage

  • Eruption adventures … Herzog in his 2016 film Into the Inferno.

    ‘A goalkeeper vomited over my typewriter’: Werner Herzog on writing his wildest film

Regulars
  • A female photographer holding a camera crouches behind sandbags during world war two.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller

  • Will Smith in I Am Legend, WALL·E. and Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the best post-apocalyptic films

  • Spoiler alert … Ian McKellan as Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

    Week in geek
    Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch

  • A few of Martin Scorsese’s favourite British films (clockwise from top left): Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde; To the Public Danger; The Legend of Hell House; and ‘dark gem’ Went the Day Well?

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Martin Scorsese’s love of British cinema

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You may have missed
  • a Lee Miller photograph taken in Downshire Hill, London, in 1941.

    ‘Now I owned a private war’: Lee Miller and the female journalists who broke battlefield rules

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from "Better Man." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off

    The life of the ego-driven showman is turned into an unlikely yet surprisingly entertaining saga with a CGI monkey in the lead
  • This image released by Focus Features shows Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence in a scene from "Conclave." (Focus Features via AP)

    Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller

    The actor leads a top-tier ensemble, including Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, in an entertainingly juicy adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel
  • FILE: Actor James Earl Jones Dies At 93<br>FILE - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor James Earl Jones has died at 93 years old. The EGOT winner is known for such classic films as "Star Wars," "Field of Dreams," "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" and "The Lion King." NEW YORK - APRIL 7: (U.S. TABS AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OUT) Actor James Earl Jones attends the opening night of "On Golden Pond" after party at Blue Fin April 7, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)

    ‘James Earl Jones boomed this massive laugh - then hugged me’: Lenny Henry and Don Warrington remember their hero

  • Gladiator II film still<br>Paul Mescal and Director Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures.

    ‘We have a good relationship … as long as he doesn’t start bitching’: why Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s Gladiator 2 spat has me entertained

  • A translation of German silent cinema … still from The Third Man, 1949.

    What we still do in the shadows: why film noir will never die

  • Jim Dale and Valerie Leon in Carry on Again Doctor.

    ‘We didn’t worry about a few dirty laughs!’ The Carry On women on playing nags, bra-burners and ‘crumpet’

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