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  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    Review
    Thor: Love and Thunder — a droll Marvel sequel aware of its own absurdity

    Taika Waititi’s follow-up to the beloved Thor: Ragnarok has epic silliness, terminal illness and Russell Crowe in an almost tutu

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Review
    Six films to watch this week

    ‘The Princess’ shows the messy reality surrounding Diana’s life; ‘Nitram’, the true story of a mass killer; ‘We (Nous)’ is a searching documentary about French unity; stunning animation in ‘The Sea Beast’; all shook up by Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’; Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire’ restored and re-released — all reviewed by Danny Leigh

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Nitram — compelling portrait of an Australian mass shooter

    Justin Kurzel’s film about the man behind Tasmania’s Port Arthur massacre never betrays its own awful gravity

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    The Sea Beast, Netflix — an inventive maritime adventure for the under 12s

    The storytelling is impressive in this animated film, the usual trite life lessons rejected for chewier stuff

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    We (Nous) — bracing documentary asks questions about French unity

    Alice Diop’s boldly structured film goes beyond easy one-love humanism

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Diana documentary The Princess takes the airbrushing out of history — film review

    By relying entirely on archive footage, director Ed Perkins highlights conflicting views on the then-not-yet people’s princess

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Review
    Cha Cha Real Smooth — young drifter’s tale is acute, funny and only a little annoying

    Director Cooper Raiff stars as a New Jersey party entertainer who falls for an older single mother

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Wings of Desire — the beauty of Wim Wenders’ classic grows deeper

    The passing of time has intensified the melancholy of this poignant 1987 study of angels living among us

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Review
    Faya Dayi — the highs and lows of using and dealing qat

    Jessica Beshir traces the psychoactive plant’s political history in a deceptively gorgeous documentary

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Elvis — Baz Luhrmann’s mad, maximalist glitterbomb of a biopic

    Star Austin Butler excels at the karaoke while Tom Hanks exudes childcatcher vibes as his manager Colonel Tom Parker

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Offer, Paramount Plus — entertaining but baggy drama about the making of The Godfather

    A 10-part series covers the off-camera struggle to turn Mario Puzo’s crime saga into a film

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    InterviewMusic
    Jane Birkin: ‘I think you are always thinking about romantic love’

    The singer and actor on life with Serge Gainsbourg, why she’s still making ‘dangerous, provoking’ music — and the allure of Helen Mirren

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Seven of the best Elvis-inspired film performances

    With a bombastic biopic about to hit cinemas, we remember other memorable movie portrayals of Presley

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Lightyear — Toy Story spin-off has buzz but lacks the old Pixar ache

    Chris Evans is the voice of the space ranger in a prequel that finds him stranded on a planet of tentacular aliens

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Spiderhead — Chris Hemsworth is miscast in Netflix’s botched drugs experiment

    Miles Teller plays one of a group of prisoners tested on by a nefarious doctor

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Pleasure — a shockingly blunt and dispassionate view of the porn game

    Sofia Kappel is magnetic as a Swedish newcomer to LA intent on making it in adult entertainment

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Everything Went Fine — French family saga handles death with a light touch

    A father demands that his daughter arrange an assisted suicide for him in François Ozon’s knockabout film

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Review
    Good Luck to You, Leo Grande — Emma Thompson cruises through sex-work comedy

    Daryl McCormack co-stars as an escort hired by an older woman in Sophie Hyde’s frank and funny film

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Fashion
    ‘He was his own maker of style’: ‘Elvis’ costume designer on reimagining a legend

    You can’t help falling in love with the Elvis biopic’s 90-plus costume changes

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Jo Ellison
    The Maverick genius of Tom Cruise

    Top Gun is back, along with an onslaught of Eighties cultural icons. Bring it on

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Swan Song — Udo Kier spreads his wings as a madcap agent of camp

    A gay émigré flees his grim Ohio nursing home in Todd Stephens’ precisely observed film

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Il buco — a tantalising, spectacular caving drama

    Michelangelo Frammartino’s film tells the story — largely without words — of a 1961 expedition in Calabria

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Last Looks — Mel Gibson pops up in a shaggy crime movie

    Hollywood-set comic yarn stars Charlie Hunnam as a seasoned sleuth

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Review
    Jurassic World Dominion — a franchise aware of its looming extinction

    The promised final chapter is a parade of generic action mayhem partially saved by legacy cast members

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Interview
    Film-maker Cooper Raiff on going from Uber Eats to delivering a Sundance hit

    The 25-year-old actor-director discusses breaking into the industry, the feelgood ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ — and making himself cry

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