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  • film still of woman in a leather jacket and white dress holding a camera

    Picture This review – Bridgerton star can’t save tinny romcom

    Simone Ashley tries her best in Amazon’s gimmicky romantic comedy but it’s too flimsy and forgettable to demand our attention
  • He had it coming … Dylan Moran in Shaun of the Dead.

    Warning: if your name is David, you won’t survive a horror movie

  • Blanchett in Tár.

    From Ripley to Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

  • A woman with long blonde hair and a man with curly short brown hair smile at the camera

    Pamela Bach, Baywatch actor and David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife, dies

  • Geoffrey Rush in The Rule of Jenny Pen.

    Post your questions for Geoffrey Rush

  • Michael Fassbender stars as George Woodhouse in Black Bag.

    Black Bag review – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage

News

  • Anora thong. Anora merchandise from Neon

    T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget

  • US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-GENE HACKMAN<br>A general view of the entrance to the Santa Fe Summit neighborhood where late US actor Gene Hackman lived, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 28, 2025. Authorities will provide on February 28, 2025 an update about their investigation into the deaths of Oscar-winning cinema giant Gene Hackman and his wife, who were found dead in their home in circumstances police are calling "suspicious." The bodies of Hackman, 95, and his classical pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, along with that of a pet dog, were discovered at their property in New Mexico on February 26, 2025. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

    Breed of dog found with Gene Hackman and wife misidentified, pet expert says

  • Small screen shrinkage … Conan O'Brien at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony.

    Oscars telecast ratings fall 7% to 18m viewers

  • a man in a tuxedo holds a trophy as he speaks into a microphone

    Adrien Brody breaks record for longest ever Oscar acceptance speech

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Reviews

  • a toy monkey upside down

    The Monkey – slapdash splatter comedy is a grating misfire

  • The ultimate disruptor … Red Hulk Harrison Ford in Captain America: Brave New World.

    Captain America: Brave New World – Harrison Ford juggles green screens, red fists and vanilla plotting

    Ford has gravitas as the new president and Anthony Mackie makes a charismatic captain, but this is a tired and uninspired dollop of content from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Hugh Grant, left, and Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – giant laughs for Hugh Grant but weepie sequel is strangely dazed

    Renée Zellweger looks as if she’s thinking of something else in weird fourquel that sees our heroine choosing between new suitors Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor

  • The Gorge – guarding hellish monsters is aphrodisiac in silly horror

  • The Dead Thing – sexy state-of-dating thriller opens up the algorithmic death-drive

  • Love Hurts – Everything Everywhere all over again

  • Heart Eyes – junky Valentine’s slasher is hard to fall for

  • Bring Them Down – Barry Keoghan farmer-feud revenge drama goes right over the top

  • Parthenope – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody

  • Kinda Pregnant – Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kinda disappointing

  • Dog Man – goofy gags galore as the Franken-pooch takes on a fiendish feline

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Video & audio

  • A look back at Gene Hackman's acting career – video obituary

  • Portrait of Andrew Lloyd with visual effect

    The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis – podcast

    Former Skins actor Kaya Scodelario talks about growing up poor in London, why she loves doing action films – and the pitfalls of taking her kids to work. When one man discovered someone had been impersonating him for years without his knowledge, he decided to act. He reveals what happened next. And ‘the climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair’: Philippa Perry advises one reader on how to cope
  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    S8, Ep6: Richard E Grant, actor

    Joining Grace this week on Comfort Eating is actor Richard E Grant
  • Still of Al Pacino holding a gun in a black and white still from The Guardian

    Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine – podcast

  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

  • James Earl Jones starred in a number of films, gave voice to legendary characters and won two Tony awards in a career that spanned more than six decades
    2:20

    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
    1:58

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

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Opinion

  • Sean Baker, winner of the awards for best original screenplay, best film editing, best director, and best picture for "Anora," attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

    Anora has swept the Oscars. I can’t help feeling that shouldn’t have happened

    Catherine Shoard
  • Mikey Madison backstage with her best actress Oscar.

    The Oscars were an exhilarating triumph for Anora and newly minted star Mikey Madison

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘Not all of those fellows were as hard as Hackman’ … Gene Hackman as Jimmy Doyle in William Friedkin’s 1972 film The French Connection.

    ‘He let us hate him’: Gene Hackman had a rare power – he didn’t need to be liked

    David Thomson
  • Hugh Grant on the red carpet for Heretic.

    There’s a reason Hugh Grant is the best thing in middling movies: he writes his own lines

    Stuart Heritage

  • Film in Europe is booming, but the gongs and glamour only tell one side of the story

    Moritz Pfeifer

  • Tomato and basilica: in Conclave, Stanley Tucci plays Stanley Tucci – and I couldn’t be happier

  • Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist

  • Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we

    Barbara Ellen

  • From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Share your memories and pictures of the Prince Charles Cinema

  • No phone, no watch, no problem: should we all be more like Christopher Walken?

  • ‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Ella Lily Hyland photographed by Suki Dhanda for the Observer. Styling by Sam Deaman. Hair and makeup by Rebecca Hampson. Blazer with georgette shoulder drape, hellessy.com. Ear cuffs by completedworks.com and carolinadebarros.com

    ‘She was so much fun to play’: Ella Lily Hyland, breakout star of Black Doves, on her wise-cracking assassin

  • A studio portrait of actor Ron Perlman

    Ron Perlman on Hellboy, the LA fires and Trump: ‘A snake-oil con-artist who’d sell you bad vodka and swampland in New Jersey’

    Back with his new film Day of the Fight, the reluctant star recalls anxiety about his looks, a strange dinner with Guillermo del Toro, spats with Trump and Weinstein … and hints at his plan to save the world
  • Mischa Barton sitting in front of a colourful, floral background.

    Mischa Barton: ‘I’m a huge Oasis fan. What kind of self-respecting Brit would I be if I wasn’t?’

    The London-born US actor on having Richard Attenborough as a mentor, why she loves starring in horror films, and hanging out with the Killers on the set of The OC
  • David Wenham as Johnny 'Spit' Spitieri in a still from the 2025 film Spit, a sequel to Gettin' Square

    David Wenham on the return of Johnny ‘Spit’ Spitieri: ‘Every second day someone comes up to talk about him’

  • Actor Guy Pearce

    Guy Pearce: ‘I’m not going to win the Oscar – Kieran Culkin will’

  • Patricia Arquette (LA Times)<br>09 2023 PatriciaArquette JustinJunLee HighRes

    Patricia Arquette on Trump, communes, art and ageing: ‘When I was growing up the whole world was pretty creepy’

  • Gugu Mbatha shot for OM

    Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s good to trust your gut’

Regulars

  • Pamela Anderson in a scene from The Last Showgirl

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson gives performance of a lifetime in rhinestone-studded tale

  • Paul Mescal in a scene from "Gladiator II.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Gladiator II and the best sword-and-sandal movies

  • ‘Kennedy moved like a hyperspace-jumping Millennium Falcon’ … a scene from Star Wars: Episode VII – the Force Awakens.

    Week in geek
    A cosmic Jackson Pollock: Kathleen Kennedy’s Star Wars tenure has been marked by chaos

    Ben Child
  • Ken Russell in 2011.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Ken Russell, the king of cult classics who was so much more than a sensationalist

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You may have missed

  • Queen Latifah backstage at the Oscars, smiling and clapping

    Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

    Xan Brooks
  • ‘The studio never understood’ … The Warriors, with Deborah Van Valkenburgh on the right.

    ‘Gangs charged us $200 a night to shoot on their turf’: Walter Hill on making cult film The Warriors

    ‘It was on its way to becoming a smash hit. Then gangs in various parts of the country clashed outside cinemas – and they began pulling the film’
  • Gene Hackman in The Conversation

    ‘I spent 12 hours a day for 16 months with Gene Hackman – but never met him’: The Conversation’s Walter Murch pays tribute

    Murch was just a rookie when he was hired to edit Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to The Godfather, but studying Hackman taught him all he needed to know
  • Film-maker and screenwriter François Ozon.

    Post your questions for François Ozon

  • A young couple smile and embrace each other

    What can we learn from this year’s anonymous Oscar ballots?

  • The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards.Oscars class photo 2025

    Saldaña squished and Chalamet chafing as Ariana and Cynthia bag the best seats: the 2025 Oscars class photo

  • Daniel Craig at the premiere of No Time to Die at the Royal Albert Hall in 2021.

    The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos: what can we expect from Amazon’s James Bond?

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