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  • BESTPIX - "Despicable Me 4" Photocall In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 24: Steve Carell attends the "Despicable Me 4" photocall with the Mega Minions on London's Southbank on June 24, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Sama Kai/Dave Benett/WireImage)

    ‘Beyond marketing, beyond explanation’: how Inside Out and Despicable Me saved the summer

    As Pixar’s sequel unexpectedly becomes the fastest-ever $1bn movie, and with Despicable Me 4 poised to top the box office, film-makers reveal the secrets of their successes – and why adults are the new superfans of family films
  • Kevin Bacon.

    ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’

  • Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

    James Bond has an Andrew Tate problem. The answer is to set it in the 1960s

    Ben Child
  • Rob Delaney.

    Post your questions for Rob Delaney

  • white woman wearing white suit gestures at white woman wearing patterned shirt as a white man wearing a black suit and bowtie looks on

    Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

  • Tilda Swinton, left, and Julio Torres pose for a portrait in New York to promote their film "Problemista" on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

    ‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets

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News

  • 81st Golden Globe Awards<br>Lily Gladstone accepts the award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for "Killers of the Flower Moon" at the 81st Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. on January 7, 2024. Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Lily Gladstone likens Golden Globes to Squid Game: ‘You’re in shapewear, you need to pee’

  • FILE PHOTO: Logo of Paramount Pictures<br>FILE PHOTO: The logo of Paramount Pictures studios is pictured in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 24, 2023. REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo

    Paramount and Skydance squeak closer to merger deal

  • Benoît Jacquot in 2019.

    French prosecutors ask for rape charges against film director Benoît Jacquot

  • portrait of man wearing black shirt in front of taupe backdrop

    Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89

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Reviews

  • Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – future simians swing through cinematic jungle

  • Woman wearing patterned top looks at man wearing grey shirt

    Mother of the Bride – Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

    More background fluff from the streamer, this time from Mean Girls director Mark Waters with a splashy Thailand location
  • Dounble trouble … Parker Young and Sasha Pieterse in The Image of You.

    The Image of You – schlocky erotic thriller is ripe with naffness

    Identical twins mistaken for each other, a desperately obvious crime, the production values of a 70s TV mystery … this is cheap and tedious but not without a certain knowing charm

  • The Fall Guy – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

  • Tarot – disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror

  • The Idea of You – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance

  • Unfrosted – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

  • Prom Dates – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster

  • Turtles All the Way Down – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film

  • Boy Kills World – ripped Bill Skarsgård shows he’s got brutal action chops

  • Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

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Video & audio

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

    It’s the Christian Horner paradox, according to Marina Hyde: F1 is now hideously dull, but it’s never been more dramatic; if you kill someone in your sleep, is it murder?; and ‘What a ridiculous question!’ How fawning, and inanity ruined the red carpet
  • The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76

    Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

    The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76
  • Tyla performs during New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City.

    Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year

  • The South Korean actor was best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite

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    A look back at Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun's career – video obituary

  • In a scene from the film Barbie, Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, and Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, drive through the desert.

    Revisited: why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie? – podcast

  • Andre Braugher rose to fame on the NBC drama Homicide: Life on the Street before starring in the comedy hit show Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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    Andre Braugher's most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

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Opinion

  • Donald Sutherland &amp; Sharon Williams Film: Don'T Look Now (UK/IT 1973) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Book By Daphne Du Maurier) Director: Nicolas Roeg 11 October 1973 CTH26809 Allstar Picture Library/CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL 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): John Baxter &amp; Christine Baxter

    Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘I think the point is to make us despair’ … Russell Crowe in The Exorcism (left), and in The Pope's Exorcist

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

    Stuart Heritage
  • Dolce Vita, La - 1960<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Riama-Pathe/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886006al) Anouk Aimee Dolce Vita, La - 1960 Director: Federico Fellini Riama-Pathe ITALY Film Portrait Drama

    Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Mickey Mouse in a 1928 version of Steamboat Willie.

    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?

  • Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage

  • Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

    Mike McCahill

  • What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw

  • High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • ‘People are recognising the power of drag’ … Jason Patel in Unicorns.

    Unicorns star Jason Patel: ‘If you don’t toot your own horn, who else will?’

  • David Duchovny

    David Duchovny: ‘I’m not just throwing on a kilt willy-nilly’

    The actor and musician answers your questions on Twin Peaks, that song by Catatonia and the importance of failure
  • From left: Kiran Shah with Elijah Wood on the set of The Fellowship of the Ring, in costume as Superman and dressed as an Ewok.

    Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life of Kiran Shah – the world’s smallest stuntman

    Shah has a strong claim to have appeared in more blockbuster movies than anyone else on Earth. He discusses upbraiding Brando, smoking with Christopher Reeve, slanging matches with James Cameron – and a shocking experience at a party with Freddie Mercury
  • ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY - press film still - Orlando trio

    ‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

Regulars

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

    Week in geek
    James Bond has an Andrew Tate problem. The answer is to set it in the 1960s

    Ben Child
  • David Cronenberg in Cannes last month for the premiere of his latest film, The Shrouds.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

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You may have missed

  • A mystical creature with horns looks menacingly at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

    Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?

  • Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

    ‘I can see him now. I will see him forever’: Donald Sutherland remembered by Keira Knightley, Elliott Gould, Ralph Fiennes and more

    He was a screen icon who could transform a film. Co-stars and directors of the great actor, who died last week aged 88, recall his warmth, erudition – and love of filthy jokes
  • Tim Roth in Made in Britain.

    ‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain

    The screenwriter of Alan Clarke’s classic drama, who died in December, describes how the untried young actor secured his approval
  • Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan in The Lost King.

    What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?

  • RTE News Henry Winkler

    Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing

  • Britain's Forgotten Prisoners.

    Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

  • A black-and-white image of seven young men and women seated and standing at a bistro table with a checked tablecloth and roundback chairs, laughing uproariously.

    Looking back on life in the Brat Pack: ‘It never existed in any real way’

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