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Movies

  • Ibrahim Nash'at photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, July 2024.

    Documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at on filming the Taliban: ‘The secret service asked to see my footage. I left the same day’

    Embedded with the Taliban after US forces fled Kabul, Nash’at’s fly-on-the-wall documentary, Hollywoodgate, offers a darkly comic, damning insight into the regime
  • film still of a man and a woman standing in a living room

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

  • Clockwise from top left: Bande à part (1964); Ratatouille (2009); Les Misérables (2019) and Amélie (2001).

    Streaming: the best films set in Paris

  • Francis Ford Coppola at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    Video emerges of Francis Ford Coppola kissing female extras on set

  • Mountain Queen The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa.

    Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa review – a female Everest climber’s ascent

  • Don’t look now … Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Attack of the spoilers: are trailers giving away too much?

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News

  • Maya Hawke’s character Anxiety in Inside Out 2.

    Inside Out 2 becomes highest-grossing animation of all time

  • George Lazenby in 2022.

    ‘It’s been a fun ride’: former Bond George Lazenby announces retirement at 84

  • Jennifer Aniston.

    Jennifer Aniston criticises JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment

  • Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in a car in A Complete Unknown

    First trailer for Bob Dylan biopic shows Timothée Chalamet as the star

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Reviews

  • Sasha Lane as Lily and Glen Powell as Tyler in Twisters.

    Twisters – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel

  • Anna Faris and Dave Bautista in My Spy: The Eternal City.

    My Spy: The Eternal City – Dave Bautista’s daddy-daughter spy comedy heads to Rome

    Bautista returns as a less than convincing CIA agent charging around the planet to protect his stepdaughter and defend against nuclear catastrophe
  • A man and a woman hold onto a ladder and each other as they scale the side of a building

    Skywalkers: A Love Story – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary

    A daredevil Russian couple who climb to the tops of skyscrapers make for both frustrating and thrilling protagonists in this hit-and-miss documentary

  • Find Me Falling – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

  • Longlegs – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

  • Fly Me to the Moon – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy

  • Sing Sing – powerful, deeply felt drama takes theatre behind bars

  • Divorce in the Black – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date

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

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

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

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Video & audio

  • 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

    The Guardian music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas, books editor Lucy Knight and film and TV critic Leila Latif look at what’s dominating culture this summer
  • 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

    Marina Hyde advises the US president: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’; ‘I’m a failure, in debt and my partner is pregnant’ – Philippa Perry helps one man open up; Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life and career of Kiran Shah; actor Katy Wix confronts a painful memory when she gets a message out of the blue
  • 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

  • bed illustration

    Does murder count if you’re asleep? Marina Hyde on Christian Horner’s F1 drama; and how inanity ruined the red carpet – podcast

  • 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

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Opinion

  • black and white photo of a woman in a white shirt

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

    Pamela Hutchinson
  • Malcolm McDowell.

    Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

  • man in a red and demin jacket and glasses

    Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?

  • FILE - Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

    Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage

  • We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5

    Sian Cain

  • Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage

  • 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?

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Interviews

  • David Lynch and Chrystabell.

    ‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery

  • Zosia Mamet.

    Zosia Mamet on Girls, acclaim and nepo babies: ‘It’s not like you’re born to a famous family and the red carpet rolls out for you’

    She got her big break on Lena Dunham’s hit show – and has since established a great and growing career. The actor and writer discusses Madame Web, introversion and her surprisingly personal essays
  • Melvyn Hayes, right, in No Trees in the Street.

    ‘I lied to get the part’: Melvyn Hayes on his ‘angry young man’ beginnings – and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

    He was tipped to be the next Richard Burton – but ended up as crossdressing Gunner Gloria in the now controversial sitcom. As his breakthrough classic returns to the screen, Hayes looks back
  • The Lady Garden Gala 10th Anniversary At The OWO<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 07: Donna Air attends The Lady Garden Gala 10th anniversary at The OWO on March 7, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

    Sunday with Donna Air: ‘ I like a hot banya sauna where you’re beaten with leaves’

  • ‘Life is short. I try to enjoy everything: sitting in the park, looking at the trees, seeing friends and family’: Penelope Wilton.

    Penelope Wilton: ‘My street cred went up when I did Shaun of the Dead’

  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

  • Hungarian Filmmaker Bela Tarr Stars In A Season At The Filmoteca De Catalunya With A Large Part Of His Filmography<br>BARCELONA CATALONIA, SPAIN - JANUARY 09: Filmmaker Bela Tarr poses after giving a press conference at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, January 9, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. During the press conference, the filmmaker commented on his retrospective at the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr stars in a Filmoteca de Catalunya cycle with a large part of his cinematography during the month of January. (Photo By David Zorrakino/Europa Press via Getty Images)

    ‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

Regulars

  • Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson in Janet Planet.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Janet Planet review – Annie Baker’s tender, perceptive mother-daughter drama

  • Clockwise from top left: Bande à part (1964); Ratatouille (2009); Les Misérables (2019) and Amélie (2001).

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films set in Paris

  • Don’t look now … Deadpool &amp; Wolverine.

    Week in geek
    Attack of the spoilers: are trailers giving away too much?

  • 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

  • ‘They were very clear they didn’t care about history’ … Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal in the forthcoming Gladiator II.

    Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths

  • Glen Powell – in a dark green shirt the same colour as his blazer and with a slightly wavy fringe, a bit oiled and slicked back – grins in front of the cutoff letters "E" and "R" at the Twisters premiere in Los Angeles

    Glen Powell: meet the new Hollywood A-lister who can do heart-throb, goofball or action hero

    His good looks haven’t restricted Powell to the superhero universe. Now, after starring in an impressive variety of films, genres and roles, he’s finally attained star status
  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

    Twisters is the latest in a long line of movies that fail to address the environmental emergency – experts say it’s a missed opportunity
  • Authentic Japan? … Sessue Hayakawa in The Dragon Painter.

    Sessue Hayakawa: cinema’s forgotten sex symbol who was saved from death by his dog

  • (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

  • 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

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