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The Guardian FilmUKOasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion The Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created “Hello … hello … It’s good to be back.” With these words – and the unfort
The Guardian FilmUKRobert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child Actor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’ Robert Pattinson has talked about the “addictive” nature of working on several films simultaneously
The Guardian FilmUK‘I don’t like the term neurodivergence – it sounds like political correctness’: Werner Herzog on fans, fanaticism and baby foxes The Bavarian auteur talks directing Kate and Rooney Mara in Bucking Fastard and his popularity on Instagram In outsider visionaries such as Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo or Timothy Treadwell, renegade German director Werner Herz
The Guardian FilmUKA Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western Telluride film festival In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt Andrew Haigh’s mysterious and beautiful new film is adap
The Guardian FilmUKTender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality Telluride film festival Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a complicated, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably on Mike Leigh’s new film – perhaps
The Guardian FilmUKAct 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality Telluride film festival Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s absorbing documentary is a parallel take on their relationship and a nascent drama on artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor are ar
The Guardian FilmUK‘Like a tired boxer, battered by applause’: as Andrew Scott’s biopic premieres, Richard Eyre remembers Ian Charleson’s superb, near-death Hamlet In 1989, the Chariots of Fire actor took on the incredible task of playing Shakespeare’s prince while terminally ill from Aids. This weekend sees the world premiere of Elsinore, a new film about the episode, itself heavi
The Guardian FilmUKLatcho Drom director Tony Gatlif dies aged 77 Film-maker acclaimed for his celebrations of Roma culture had been working on a ‘historical film project’ in Provence Tony Gatlif, the French director of more than 20 films that mostly concentrated on celebrating Roma cu
The Guardian FilmUKGal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop James Gunn and Peter Safran’s regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathom There was never going to be a completely painless way to brea
The Guardian FilmUKFemale film-makers still being squeezed out of industry, London film festival director says Over 40% of films in LFF programme are female-made, but only two of 21 gala films are directed by women Female film-makers are still being squeezed out of the industry as they progress beyond their debut films, the direc
The Guardian FilmUKRupert Murdoch ‘very happy’ that Guy Pearce plays him in Fleet Street biopic Ink Actor says the press baron’s daughter Elisabeth told him her father was pleased, ‘but he hadn’t seen the film at that point’ Rupert Murdoch is “very happy” that he’s being portrayed by Guy Pearce in a new film about the
The Guardian FilmUKFarewell, Dr Frank-N-Furter: why Tim Curry’s Rocky Horror Show will go on The versatile stage performer will always be remembered for his defining film role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which turned him into an icon of 70s underground cinema and proto-punk • Tim Curry, star of The Rocky H
The Guardian FilmUKDavid Harbour has blown Tony Stark’s cover in Avengers: Doomsday. It might just be what Marvel needs The actor, who plays Red Guardian in the film, made a cryptic comment to Variety that raised more Robert Downey Jr-shaped questions than answers. But was it a clanger, or expert trolling? Nobody knows exactly what solemn
The Guardian FilmUKChris Carter is mistaken if he thinks more gore will bring The X-Files: I Want to Believe back to life The director’s cut includes a host more body parts but no more insight into the villains’ personalities. What could be a gothic masterstroke is turned into a dreary procedural in the snow Warning: this article contains s
The Guardian FilmUKSuper Troopers 3 review – misfiring cop comedy threequel The return of the country’s most incompetent police force fails to bring enough laughs or any real justification for its existence Super Troopers occupies a sacred corner of the millennial DVD shelf, a goofy rebuttal to
The Guardian FilmUKOne Night Only review – sex is legal for 12 hours a year in bizarre romcom ‘What if The Purge was for premarital sex?’ is the odd, gimmicky elevator pitch for this slickly made yet ungainly oddity that can’t quite get past the grimness of its conceit Going into a romcom, there are always the sa
The Guardian FilmUKIce Cream Man review – Eli Roth’s junky slasher is one of year’s worst horrors The Hostel and Thanksgiving director takes a massive stumble with a rushed retro horror made on the cheap A few years ago, Eli Roth realized his long-held ambition to make a movie out of Thanksgiving , the horror-movie t
The Guardian FilmUKTony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir Dominic Sessa stars as a conceited yet vulnerable young chef alongside Antonio Banderas – but the feelgood factor is compromised by what we know of the author For all the drugs and punch-ups, this is an unexpectedly sent
The Guardian FilmUKThe Devil’s Mouth review – Amazon’s shark thriller gives us just about enough to chew on A group of holidaying friends get trapped in a cave system with a bull shark in a solidly entertaining B-movie lifted by a toxic central friendship We’ve officially reached maximum shark movie this year , with about six
The Guardian FilmUKSpider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate Just a few weeks ago, Tom Holland was telling us that his role as Telemachus in
The Guardian FilmUK72 Hours review – Kevin Hart drags down Netflix midlife crisis comedy The overexposed actor falls flat in another disappointing vehicle that fails to make the most of its neat bachelor-party-with-a-twist concept 72 Hours is Kevin Hart’s midlife crisis comedy. He stars as Joe, a 40-year-old
The Guardian FilmUKAvatar Aang: The Last Airbender review – engaging TV-to-movie adventure A feature-length continuation of the much-loved animated series provides enough for fans as well as the uninitiated Avatar just can’t catch a break at the movies. Not the blue-cat-people franchise that makes at least a b
The Guardian FilmUKTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular Young indie film-maker Kris tracks down Anderson’s Final Girl for a remake of a beloved horror, to find fantasy and reality collapsed Jane Schoenbrun unveils a very enjoyable display of transformative ecstasy and submiss
The Guardian FilmUKI Want Your Sex review – vampy Olivia Wilde almost saves Gregg Araki’s tame dom-sub romp As a provocative artist using sex to wield power, the actor is electric but the writer-director’s return to his campy, dayglo roots is largely underwhelming While Sundance is traditionally focused on the importance of lo
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