It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster
New film The Shallows has Blake Lively’s surfer circled by a shark for 86 terrifying minutes. Scary. But is it more nerve-racking than Tom Hardy talking about concrete for an hour and a half?
JC Chandor’s new drama A Most Violent Year blurs the lines between criminality and capitalism as Oscar Isaac’s immigrant businessman tries to make it in 80s New York.
Xan Brooks talks to the director about his own 15-year struggle to get a film career off the ground
The Venice and Toronto film festivals start announcing their lineups soon. So which festival will host which big premieres? Or will sandwich-filler Telluride snaffle the key screenings?
Geoff Dyer explores our thirst for stories of hope in the face of disaster, from the real life tragedy of flight MH370 to literary fiction and the dramas of Hollywood
Film blog From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films