22 h. ago Netflix Stranger Things brings major Hollywood icon 'out of retirement' for final season

Netflix's Stranger Things will return later this year for its fifth and final season with one film legend set to join the team.

Sport

24 h. ago 13 Scottish films from the 90s that are essential viewing, including five set in Glasgow

13 films that, despite some international stars, are still distinctly Scottish upon viewing

Politics

35 h. ago Judge who ordered Epping hotel to stop housing migrants should have considered banning protests instead, Court of Appeal suggests

The court yesterday issued its full judgment on the case of The Bell Hotel in Epping, having overturned a High Court injunction that ordered the removal of asylum seekers.

Events

36 h. ago Anne Hathaway has another on set incident while filming Devil Wears Prada 2... days after epic tumble

The 42-year-old Oscar winner found herself intervening between to bickering photographers on the New York City set of The Devil Wears Prada 2 over the weekend.

Politics

66 h. ago Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych

Venice film festivalJim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness and closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and ParisJim Jarmusch has made anthology films before: Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In fact, he could claim to be the pre-eminent specialist in this now very unfashionable movie form. But with his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he is giving us something new and personal.It’s the sense of mortality and the gathering cloud of darkness over our heads as we enter middle age, a perpetual nagging worry about the health and happiness of our elderly parents, with the guilt and sadness of not going to see them, or seeing them only rarely, and the related feeling of closeness – or perhaps the opposite – with your siblings for whom these parents are the number one topic of conversation. Then there’s the feeling of relief mixed with...

Politics

3 d. ago A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day

Film-maker Beau Miles set himself the challenge of planting 1,440 trees and shrubs in one day. Four years later the result is ‘totally worth it’Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereOn a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small forest, which wasn’t there before.Flowering gums and she-oaks reach up nine metres tall, birds nest in their branches, while a giant tiger snake slides through the grass below.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Ted Lasso star's heartbreaking new role has 'awards all over it' and is coming sooner than you think

A fan-favourite Ted Lasso star is set to break hearts in an upcoming sci-fi romance film

Events

4 d. ago Big Brother star Marcus Akin begs fans for £3,500 as he reveals he's spending all his money on 'private medical care'

The former reality star, 51, who appeared for 13 weeks on the tenth series, previously worked as a window fitter and lived with his mum before entering the infamous Big Brother house.

Economics

5 d. ago Pretty 'Italian village' in Wales that looks like a film set—but there's a catch

The colourful spot looks like it's been plucked straight from the Italian Riviera, but with the added charm of rural Wales.

Politics

6 d. ago Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?When the annals of 2025 at the movies are written, no one will remember The Electric State. The film, a sci-fi comic-book adaptation, is set in a world in which sentient robots have lost a war with humans. Netflix blew a reported $320m on it, making it the 14th most expensive film ever made. But it tanked: though The Electric State initially claimed the No 1 spot on the streamer, viewers quickly lost interest. Today, it doesn’t even feature in the company’s top 20 most viewed films, a shocking performance for its most expensive production to date. It became just another anonymous “mockbuster”, crammed with the overfamiliar, flashy signifiers of big-screen film-making: a Spielbergian childhood quest, a Mad Max post-apocalyptic wasteland, Fallout-style retro-futuristic trimmings.Another way of classif...

Technology

6 d. ago Pedro Pascal set to REPLACE Joaquin Phoenix in gay romance film after pair's tense exchange over 'salute'

Pedro Pascal is being tipped to replace Joaquin Phoenix in a gay romance film - one year after the Oscar winner dropped out days before filming began.

Politics

6 d. ago Orlando Bloom gives his verdict on who should play Legolas in new Lord Of The Rings

The actor said he hoped he would be involved with the upcoming Andy Serkis-directed film, which is currently set to be released in 2027

Politics

6 d. ago Orlando Bloom makes Legolas revelation ahead of next Lord Of The Rings film

Bloom spoke about a number of upcoming projects, including a potential role in the new Lord of the Rings film set for 2027

Politics

6 d. ago BBC's Death Valley given major update on second series as star 'can't wait'

The BBC has confirmed that Death Valley will be returning for a second series, with filming set to begin this week in Wales.

Events

7 d. ago The Thursday Murder Club director's 'biggest regret' about film

The Thursday Murder Club is set to be released on Netflix this week and the film's director has opened up about his 'biggest regret'

Events

7 d. ago Venice Film Festival set to begin as activists hope to shift the spotlight to Gaza

The Venice Film Festival is kicking off amid protests and calls to boycott Israeli actor Gal Gadot

Culture

8 d. ago BBC The Guest first look as we learn three things about Eve Myles' new drama

A teaser-trailer for BBC's new gripping four-part drama, which was filmed and set in Wales and stars prominent Welsh actors including Eve Myles and Gavin and Stacey's Steffan Rhodri, has been released

Events

9 d. ago Police search for missing mother, 70, and her daughter, 36, who vanished from their homes four months and 65 miles apart

70-year-old Lorna Nightingale was last seen in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in February. Emma Nightingale, 36, was last spotted 65 miles away in Colchester, Essex, in June.

Events

9 d. ago Urgent appeal to find pair of missing women, aged 70 and 36, who haven't been seen for months

70-year-old Lorna Nightingale was last seen in the coastal town of Lowestoft, Suffolk, in February. Meanwhile, Emma Nightingale, 36, has not been spotted since June.

Events

9 d. ago Among the Palms the Bomb review – the enviromental scars left behind by the US’s atom

This striking documentary is an oral history of the impact, particularly on Indigenous Americans, of 20th-century military projects in California and UtahThe culmination of a seven-year research project, Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanić’s striking, exhaustive film examines the lasting impact of 20th-century military projects on the US landscape. The film begins at the former Wendover air force base in Utah, where fighter-bomber practice runs were held before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Moving through the corridors of a museum erected to commemorate the mission, the roving camera takes in various artefacts, including replicas of the two atomic bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man. Circulating through various monitors and speakers, matter-of-fact narration of these events lingers in the air, lending an omnipresent eeriness. Here lies empty nostalgia, unnervingly entombed.The ecological devastation that surrounds the Salton Sea, a testing site for the Manhattan Project, tel...

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