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  • Leigh McCormack leans over the edge of an old cinema balcony, rapt, in Terence Davies's autobiographical Distant Voices, Still Lives.

    Mark Kermode on… the revered British director Terence Davies: ‘He had to fight to get every film made’

    From Distant Voices, Still Lives to Benediction, the lyrical work of the late director was suffused with the ‘ecstasy’ of cinema – and his fraught Liverpool childhood
  • Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious, 1946.

    Cary Grant biopic boosts interest in star’s harsh early life in Bristol

  • Susan Phillips-Rees (left) at home with Isla Roberts in Mylor in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. They are the subjects of the documentary Isla’s Way

    ‘I’m not a lesbian. I’m Isla Roberts’: the 38-year love story that defies labels

  • ‘Not going to be dreaming about true love’ … Rachel Zegler in Snow White

    Snow White and the depressing culture war over Disney’s ‘woke’ remake

  • David Duchovny and Meg Ryan in What Happens Later

    What Happens Later review – Meg Ryan’s airport romcom is an airplane movie

  • Ari Folman in Cannes, 2021.

    ‘They had no idea if their beloved ones were kidnapped, dead or missing’: Ari Folman on filming the Israeli hostages’ families

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News

  • Sofia Coppola and Priscilla Presley at a screening of Priscilla in Los Angeles

    Lisa Marie Presley labelled Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla script ‘vengeful and contemptuous’ – reports

  • David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah in Rye Lane.

    London romcom Rye Lane leads British independent film awards nominations

  • Scarlett Johansson

    Scarlett Johansson takes legal action against use of image for AI

  • Robert De Niro departs federal court

    ‘Shame on you!’ Robert De Niro shouts at former assistant in court over workplace abuse claims

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Reviews

  • Killer robots or here to save us? Madeleine Yuna Voyles in The Creator.

    The Creator – vast and exhilarating sci-fi actioner rages against the AI machine

  • Saw X Press film still.

    Saw X – torture porn horror returns with more blood, less value

    Stomachs will churn once again in an attempt to rewind the clock for the fatigued franchise but there’s ultimately little of worth here
  • Paul Dano in Dumb Money

    Dumb Money – GameStop drama makes for a fun financial romp

    The 2021 Reddit vs Wall Street saga gets a fast and fizzy big screen adaptation with an ensemble cast including Paul Dano and Seth Rogen

  • Reptile – Benicio Del Toro looms large in gruesomely ambitious noir

  • Love is in the Air – Delta Goodrem’s corny Netflix romcom is a saccharine mess

  • Expend4bles – cigar-smoking Stallone leads way as retro franchise lumbers on

  • The Nun II – second dose of clerical horror is a demonic dead end

  • Gran Turismo – gamer turns racer in super-bland ode to product placement

  • Meg 2: The Trench – Jason Statham v seamonsters, round two

  • Kokomo City review – Black trans women tell truths of light and dark side of sex work

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – evergreen superheroes rise up from the drains

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Video & audio

  • Grace Dent and Jamie Demetriou

    S5 E4: Jamie Demetriou, actor

  • Julia Fox. Photographer: Erik Madigan Heck; styling: Chloe Hartstein; set design: Andrea Huelse; hair: John Novotny at Opus Beauty; makeup: David Razzano at Opus Beauty; set design assistant: Henry Harper; green dress : Rachel Gilbert; necklace: Alexis Bittar

    Weekend podcast: actor Julia Fox, John Crace at the Tory party conference, and The Greatest Show Never Made

    John Crace on Rishi Sunak veering between dull and delusional in his conference speech; actor Julia Fox unpacks abuse, fame, and dating Kanye; plus the bizarre story of how an advert for a reality show led to a British TV mystery
  • Lankum perform during the Mercury music prize

    Culture 2023: the films, music and TV shows not to miss this autumn

    Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis, film editor Catherine Shoard and TV critic Leila Latif guide you through what’s on offer
  • Photograph by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

    Franchesca Ramsey on the WGA and Hollywood strikes – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

  • Michael Oher sits on a bench during an NFL game

    The Blind Side and Hollywood’s blind spot

  • Photographer: Shaniqwa Jarvis

    Weekend podcast: Olivia Rodrigo, Marina Hyde on Prince Andrew, and the dark impact of Shallow Hal

  • Brian Cox speaks during a solidarity protest rally for the Sag-Aftra strike, as Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo and Simon Pegg listen to him.

    Why is Hollywood on strike – and why is Succession’s Brian Cox joining them? – Full Story podcast

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Opinion

  • Matthew Perry Film: 17 Again (USA 2009) Director: Burr Steers 11 March 2009 AFD13479 Allstar Picture Library/NEW LINE CINEMA **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of NEW LINE CINEMA and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To NEW LINE CINEMA 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): Mike O'Donnell (Adult)

    Matthew Perry was a tremendous performer. So why wasn’t he a movie star?

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Terence Davies, British director. Photographed in his home county of Essex, 20 April 2022

    A poet of pain, ecstasy and epiphany, Terence Davies is a colossal loss to British cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
  • A dog gets into character at the Guinness world record-breaking screening of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.

    Cinema may be going to the dogs, but at least dogs are going to the cinema

    Stuart Heritage
  • The fantasy of a reunion … Greta Lee as Nora Moon and Teo Yoo as Hae Sung in Past Lives.

    Many unhappy returns: why Asian immigrant cinema is challenging the meaning of home

    Rebecca Liu

  • Barbie, what have you done? The nightmare of Hollywood’s toy movie future

    Stuart Heritage

  • More gore please: don’t waste my time with blood-free monster movies

    Anne Billson

  • From Barbie to Talk to Me, trans actors’ visibility is at a tipping point – and about time too

    Caspar Salmon

  • William Friedkin created unforgettable horror and pleasure with equal brilliance

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Barbie’s muddled feminist fantasy still bows to the patriarchy

    David Cox

  • See no evil: why have baddies vanished from our cinema screens?

    Alex Hess

  • No more newborns: Watership Down has been upgraded to a PG. It’ll still terrify children

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out

    Caspar Salmon
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Interviews

  • David Duchovny in New York.

    David Duchovny: ‘I’m always going to be a work in progress’

  • Mia McKenna-Bruce. Photography: David Reiss; styling: Tilly Wheating; hair: Ben Talbott; makeup: Sara Hill.

    ‘I sobbed my heart out’: How to Have Sex star Mia McKenna-Bruce on consent, girlhood, and talking to teens

    The actor’s turn as a 16-year-old pressured to lose her virginity on a boozy trip to Malia was a hit at Cannes. She talks about toxic teenage memories and the film’s surprising admirers
  • David Fincher

    ‘Who doesn’t think they’re an outsider?’ David Fincher on hitmen, ‘incels’ and Spider-Man’s ‘dumb’ origin story

    The director is one of Hollywood’s most unpredictable film-makers. He discusses making a shamelessly pulpy ‘B-movie’, the misogynistic legacy of Fight Club – and the urge to film 100 takes
  • Eddie Izzard

    Eddie Izzard: ‘Why wouldn’t you take me seriously, given everything I’ve done in my life?’

  • Shifting power balance … Macdonald, left, and Dolan in Typist Artist Pirate King.

    ‘Bring knickers and a toothbrush!’ Kelly Macdonald on making ‘a Sunderland Thelma and Louise’

  • Maysoon Pachachi: ‘If people become entangled with the character, they start to think: what would I do if I were them?’

    ‘The shooting stops but the war’s not over’: making movies in post-9/11 Iraq

  • Anny, an occasional sex worker, filmed over the course of 18 years, from 1996 to 2012, in Třeštíková’s film of the same name.

    ‘Time-lapse’ film-maker Helena Třeštíková: ‘Every life is interesting enough to produce a story’

Regulars

  • a young woman and young man with drinks, her in lace-up white top, him in white vest, both tanned

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    How to Have Sex review – two stars are born with this searing study of consent

  • a composite of four stills from Meet Me in St Louis; It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown; Arsenic and Old Lace; Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best Halloweens on screen

  • ‘Not going to be dreaming about true love’ … Rachel Zegler in Snow White

    Week in geek
    Snow White and the depressing culture war over Disney’s ‘woke’ remake

  • Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’

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You may have missed

  • The Adamant on the Seine.

    ‘I’d be a wreck without it’: the floating daycare centre where Parisians paint, dance and heal

  • movie cliches

    ‘A dated and alarmist trope’: critics on the modern movie cliches that need to go

    From boring drone shots to the ‘surprise’ car crash that’s anything but, today’s film-makers have developed a host of hackneyed habits. Here, our writers name and shame the 21st century tropes we could do without
  • Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in 2001.

    ‘Fo’ shiz, homie!’: Michelle Williams’ impression of Justin Timberlake is Britney’s greatest revenge

    Stuart Heritage
    For the audiobook of Spears’s The Woman in Me, Williams delivers Timberlake’s cringeworthy lines even more scathingly and excruciatingly than they are written
  • Richard Roundtree at Toronto International film festival in 2022.

    Richard Roundtree: how Shaft’s ‘first Black action hero’ changed culture for ever

  • Tom Cruise

    Can Tom Cruise get audiences to care about Mission: Impossible 8?

  • Film still: Pressure (1975) directed by Horace Ové

    ‘He showed our lives in ways that had never been seen’: Horace Ové, pioneer of black British cinema

  • Full of danger … an escape from North Korea in Beyond Utopia.

    Escape from tyranny: the gentle pastor who smuggles North Koreans to freedom

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