2 h. ago Dwayne Johnson, Oscar contender? ‘The Smashing Machine’ starts buzz at Venice Film Festival

Dwayne Johnson takes a serious turn as UFC fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine,” premiering Monday at the Venice Film Festival

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10 h. ago Paris Jackson commands attention in a dramatic caped gown as she joins dashing Colman Domingo and Jude Law at star

The 27-year-old daughter of late singer Michael Jackson looked nothing short of sensational as she graced the red carpet in a dramatic caped gown.

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10 h. ago Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez flashes her giant $3million engagement ring as she sizzles in a lace dress at the Filming Italy Venice Award amid the 82nd Film Festival

Cristiano Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez flashed her giant sparkling engagement ring on Sunday as she hit the red carpet at the Filming Italy Venice Award.

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10 h. ago Cate Blanchett turns heads in quirky bird feather gown as she graces the red carpet at premiere of her film Father Mother Sister Brother during Venice International Film Festival

The acclaimed actress, 56, ensured all eyes were on her in a striking black gown with a voluminous skirt made up of layers of dark grey feathers.

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10 h. ago My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming

Venice film festivalPierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hittersWe have had some sparky tennis movies recently, such as Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, and it seemed at first as if this coming-of-age comedy from Italian actor turned director Andrea Di Stefano could be joining them. But despite a very robust lead performance from Pierfrancesco Favino, the enjoyably grizzled alpha male of Italian cinema, this completely runs aground in the third act, quite unable to decide if it should offer the traditional comeback story of an underdog sports movie, or if it should pursue its implied repudiation of the win-at-all-costs ethic. The other issue is whether its young hero should ignore what his dad has to say in favour of an attractive, if flawed, new mentor. The film does in fact appear finally to get off the fence on ...

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10 h. ago Jude Law avoids red carpet snaps with his wife Phillipa Coan as she makes rare public appearance at his premiere during Venice International Film Festival

The actor, 52, who tied the knot with Phillipa, 38, in 2019, appeared on the red carpet for The Wizard Of The Kremlin premiere, however he and his wife avoided being snapped together.

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13 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...

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13 h. ago No fears over playing ‘man without a face’ Putin, Jude Law says in Venice

Star of The Wizard of the Kremlin says he does not expect any repercussions from portraying Russian leaderHe has long been considered one of the leading heart-throbs of the silver screen, but for his latest role in Olivier Assayas’s political drama The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law steps into the shoes of a far more forbidding figure: Vladimir Putin.Law has said he was unfazed by the prospect of playing Vladimir Putin and that he did not – he hoped “not naively” – fear any repercussions. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

Venice film festival The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figureGiuliano da Empoli’s smash-hit satirical novel The Wizard of the Kremlin, about a Putin spin doctor called Vadim Baranov and based on shadowy Russian politician Vladislav Surkov, has now been converted into an exasperatingly laborious and literal-minded movie, burdened with endless dull voiceover. It has been written for the screen by its estimable director Olivier Assayas, working with the formidable author and reportage journalist Emmanuel Carrère; Carrère in fact has a cameo here, playing a supercilious French figure at a raucous Moscow student party in the early 90s, patronisingly informing the young people present that it was the communism they’ve just rejected that really believed in the arts.The action takes us through the 1990s decline of ailing president Boris Yeltsin and the promotion of FSB chief Vlad...

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15 h. ago All the best looks from Venice Film Festival 2025: Alexa Chung, Amal Clooney, Emma Stone, Jacob Elordi

The stars are pulling out all the stops with their Venice style for 2025

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15 h. ago Jude Law reveals ‘positive’ part of portraying Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin

Law’s new film premiered at the Venice Film Festival

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15 h. ago Jude Law doesn’t 'fear repercussions' after playing Putin in divisive new movie

The actor insisted the film is not “looking for controversy for controversy’s sake”, whilst being grilled by journalists at the Venice Film Festival

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16 h. ago The Wizard of the Kremlin, Venice review – Jude Law is an intense, torso

Olivier Assayas’s new film – starring Paul Dano as a fictional Russian politician – has some anarchic energy to it, but it lacks nuance and insight overall

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19 h. ago Broken English review – Marianne Faithfull’s last glow, as she recounts past lives

Venice film festivalThe charismatic Faithfull is quizzed by a fictional ministry fronted by Tilda Swinton about a confounding career, from 60s It girl to art scene doyenneMarianne Faithfull led different lives and was cast in various roles. Some roles she chose and wrote herself; others were forced upon her, like an ugly hat or an ill-fitting suit. She was the convent girl and the teenage bride, the 60s It girl and the rock star’s girlfriend. She was the pop singer, the folk singer, the tragic addict and the indomitable survivor. Broken English, a flawed but ardent new documentary from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, effectively arranges all of these incarnations like museum exhibits and invites its subject to review each one in turn – and then smash the glass to set them free.Faithfull broke the mould, and so it is fitting that the film of her life should do the same, except that Forsyth and Pollard’s main conceit feels jerry-rigged and overdramatised to the point where it risks obs...

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19 h. ago Laura Harrier packs on the PDA with her new man during Venice Film Festival as she appears to move on after split from ex

The American actress and model, 35, and fashion consultant Sam reportedly separated earlier this year after more than four years together.

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20 h. ago Seeing double! Princess Diana's nieces Amelia and Eliza stun in sheer, pastel looks as Spencer twins mirror each other at Venice Film Festival

Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Spencer sashayed down the red carpet ethereal ensembles as they returned to Venice to attend the 82nd edition of the Film Festival.

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22 h. ago James Bond favourite looks unrecognisable with bushy beard and long hair

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who is hotly tipped to play the next James Bond, caused quite a stir at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday at the premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

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26 h. ago Jude Law debuts portrayal of Vladimir Putin in 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' at Venice Film Festival

Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin in “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” premiering Sunday at the Venice Film Festival

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34 h. ago Julia Roberts packs on rare PDA with husband Danny Moder in back of taxi after solo red carpet in Venice

Julia Roberts may have been solo on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival , but she definitely had a plus-one for the ride back to her hotel.

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35 h. ago Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster are unrecognizable as they ditch glam for '70s style at Venice Film Festival

Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster took the Venice Film Festival by storm on Saturday when they arrived in matching retro outfits.

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