6 d. ago Pillion at LFF review: Alexander Skarsgård gets kinky in this gay BDSM biker love story

Harry Lighton makes an outrageously good directorial debut with this sexy, sweet tale of queer first love wrapped up in leathers and chains

Politics

7 d. ago Die My Love LFF review: Jennifer Lawrence goes bonkers brilliant in Lynne Ramsay’s wild return

Opposite husband Robert Pattinson, Lawrence is superb (and, yes, fun) as a new mother in mental meltdown

Events

7 d. ago Family Rental at LFF review: Brendan Fraser radiates charm as a rent

Hikari’s gentle tale of unlikely connection raises fascinating topics but shies away from going deeper

Society

8 d. ago The Voice of Hind Rajab LFF review: an utterly devastating human story from Gaza’s front line

The tragedy of five-year-old Hind Rajab is retold in one of this year’s only truly essential pieces of film-making

Politics

8 d. ago Brendan Fraser says Rental Family ‘ticks all the boxes’ he looks for in a role

The film will be released in the UK in January 2026.

Society

1 week ago After the Hunt at LFF review: Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri's talents are wasted on this slog of a movie

A stellar cast can’t save this over long and overly loud tale of vice at Yale

Politics

1 week ago Hamnet at LFF review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthrall in this Shakespeare tearjerker

Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s backstory in love, loss and the natural world

Politics

1 week ago Wrexham star's surprising side hustle revealed after £3.3m deal with ex

A Wrexham footballer and fellow players have invested in a £3.3m rental property portfolio once owned by a former UK leader's family as he prepares for life beyond football

Economics

1 week ago The Testament of Ann Lee LFF review: Amanda Seyfried sizzles as the evangelical heroine

The Brutalist co-writer Mona Fastvold directs a wild song-and-dance tribute to the founder of the Shaker movement

Politics

1 week ago It Was Just an Accident LFF review: this comic Iranian revenge thriller is devastatingly superb

Director Jafar Panahi won the big prize at Cannes and no wonder. This will surely be 2025’s best film

Politics

2 w. ago A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainmentAt the threshold between life and death sits the ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra and at the threshold of many a millennial adolescence (including mine) sits 1999’s The Mummy, a story about a hot lunk (Brendan Fraser) and a sexy nerd (Rachel Weisz) learning first-hand the consequences of expatriating cultural artefacts.A turn-of-the-millennium Spielbergian blockbuster with shades of the superhero craze to come, Stephen Sommers’ desert romp remains dizzyingly fun to this day. Both masterfully well-made and refreshingly horny, it is one of the last great examples of a specific mode of multiplex entertainment now all but lost to the sands of time: the mid-budget action-adventure movie. Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago The Hollywood film stunts that went VERY wrong: From Brendan Fraser passing out and almost hanging to Isla Fisher nearly drowning and Sylvester Stallone spending nine days in intensive care

Hollywood film sets can be a dangerous place, and the latest star to learn this the hard way is Tom Holland .

Events