1 hour ago Schmeichel review – amazing saves but too few insights into the great Dane

This by-numbers documentary of a glittering goalkeeping career only really kicks off when the footballer and his father get talkingIn Denmark it’s actually pronounced “Schmy-shell” — but that’s the extent of the stunning revelations provided by Owen Davies’s worshipful and rote sports doc about the former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, now 61. Footage of all his amazing saves – the ones that won Euro 92 for the Danish national side, or led Man U to the treble in ’99 – impressively affirm the Great Dane’s greatness. The question though is how? And why?At 6ft 4in tall, his imposing physicality obviously had something to do with it (“The span was like an aeroplane!” marvels Sir Alex Ferguson). Schmeichel’s competitive edge and total inability to abide weakness are attributed to the parenting of a tough, Polish-born father who was orphaned at a young age by the second world war; their story of estrangement and reconciliation is worthy of soap opera. But it’s the insights that the Schmeich...

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1 hour ago Captain America: Brave New World makes Marvel history in the worst way

New film has hit an unfortunate milestone for the comic book franchise

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1 hour ago How a film about women’s ‘invisible’ labour in marriage sparked a debate in India

The Hindi-language film starring actor Sanya Malhotra traces the journey of a newlywed woman in her husband's house

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2 h. ago Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori lies naked on floor in snap promoting his new film

Kanye West has shared a naked snap of his wife Bianca Censori to promote his new movie, which is set to be the couple's latest controversial move in the public eye

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3 h. ago Rob McElhenney reflects on ‘humiliating and terrible’ experience on Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford film

The actor was removed from the film without warning

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7 h. ago Kanye West shares NUDE snap of Bianca Censori as he gives major update on their $25m film

Kanye West is gearing up for the premiere of his latest project, unveiling a provocative poster to announce a screening. He took to Instagram to share the image-a nude Bianca Censori reclining.

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7 h. ago ‘Was this a big mistake?’: How Vera Drew defied Warner Bros and turned the Batman universe trans

‘The People’s Joker’ reframes the iconic DC Comics villain as a young trans comedian. After years of legal uncertainty, the film is finally out in UK cinemas. Louis Chilton speaks to its inimitable director and star

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10 h. ago Julia Fox makes heads turn in wacky futuristic Adidas look at 2025 Independent Spirit Awards

Julia Fox commanded attention in a striking ensemble at the the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California. She flaunted her unique fashion sense at the bash.

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11 h. ago Is this the most stupid TikTok trend yet? Users film themselves dropping increasingly heavy objects on their FEET for likes

Hundreds of creators on the short-form video app have shared the absurd clips of themselves dropping objects such as vacuum cleaners, glass jugs and wooden tables on their feet.

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12 h. ago Coming to a cinema near you: six British kids playing Roblox...

The stars, six British junior schoolchildren, were recruited via Facebook and a casting agency to play each other on the Roblox video game platform for the film to launch on April 19.

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12 h. ago The brutally frank comment from an Amazon insider that sums up the fate of James Bond... and who 'villain' Bezos could choose as the next 007, revealed by CAROLINE GRAHAM

The announcement that creative control of 007 would be ceded to Amazon came following reports that the Broccoli-controlled film franchise had been in 'crisis' since Daniel Craig's No Time To Die.

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14 h. ago Pressure grows on BBC as leaked papers point to Gaza film cover

The corporation was forced to apologise after it emerged that the child narrator on the BBC2 documentary was the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas's deputy agriculture minister.

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17 h. ago Norwegian drama 'Dreams (Sex Love)' takes top prize at the Berlin Film Festival

A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery won top honors at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday

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18 h. ago Rose Byrne showcases her incredible figure in dazzling black gown at The 75th Berlin International Film Festival

The Bridesmaid actress, 45, dressed to impress as she showed off her ageless good looks at the 75th Berlinale International Film Festival on Saturday.

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20 h. ago We tried Manchester's unique film and food experience where you eat what you see

It's taking cinema to a whole new level

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20 h. ago Dancing On Ice's Torvill and Dean make rare comment about retirement as they film final skate

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean will take to the ice for the final time as they perform on the Dancing on Ice rink, after confirming they will retire after 50 years

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20 h. ago Inmates locked up in UK prison given dancing lessons and invited to 'film nights'

Female inmates at HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire have been offered line dancing lessons and can attend film nights featuring popcorn and fizzy pop as part of the prison's incentive scheme

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22 h. ago My film star mother is adamant that a Hollywood icon murdered her former lover

The death of a former Time journalist during filming of a Hollywood western in 1973 has long been a mystery. Now the actor who found the body has claimed he was murdered - by an iconic 70s star

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23 h. ago The iconic Bond girls then and now: As 007 fans are left furious as Amazon gain 'creative control' of the franchise we take a look back at the film's glamorous female stars

No James Bond film is complete without a Bond Girl and over the decades there have been an abundance of actresses who have taken on the roles. 

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25 h. ago Bong Joon Ho: ‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy, but I’m just thinking about nap time’

How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’We are in the run-up to the release of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17, and Warner Bros has got the Oscar-winning Korean director stashed away in what appears to be some kind of basement storage room, with grey-painted brickwork and exposed wiring. In fact, this room could pass for one of the “gritty and kind of nasty” cargo-container-packed cabins of his film’s spaceship setting.Not that anyone is complaining. Bong, who speaks good English but prefers to conduct interviews via his longtime interpreter Sharon Choi, appears cheerful throughout our conversation, taking occasional sips from a takeaway coffee cup, while dressed in his usual arthouse auteur uniform of a slate-grey blazer over a black T-shirt. He i...

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29 h. ago Netflix lines up huge week for thriller fans as it quietly adds 'new John Wick'

Netflix is adding three new movies to its library and they're all must-see thrillers

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29 h. ago Berlin film festival 2025 roundup – a new boss, a flawless fairytale and Ethan Hawke’s finest hour

At a snowy Berlinale, against a backdrop of political divisions, this year’s standouts include Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower, Richard Linklater’s Broadway biopic of Lorenz Hart, and intensely sexual romance starring Jessica ChastainBerlin can be a touch inhospitable in February; this year was no exception, with visitors to the film festival enduring heavy snow, treacherous pavements and a two-day, city-wide transport strike. But the Berlinale itself is contending with a frosty climate. Traditionally a hub for film-makers of forthright, oppositional persuasions, it must now attempt to flourish in the face of Europe’s swing to the right, with Germany’s elections imminent and the troubling rise of the extremist AfD party.Every new festival head faces the challenge of reinventing the event they have inherited, and in the Berlinale’s 75th year, the bar was set especially high given the scrutiny the festival has received. Last year’s closing night brought controversy, with some Ge...

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29 h. ago A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival | John Dickie

A historic number of arrests were made, but the days of targeted murder or massive political influence are long gonePalermo has not seen anything like it for years. Helicopters in the pre-dawn sky. Carabinieri barracks across Sicily emptied, with all 1,200 officers deployed. The Cacciatori – red-bereted shock cops – brought over from the wilds of Calabria. The Carabinieri’s own film units serving up a morning montage of flashing blue lights, balaclava-wearing officers with submachine guns, police dogs sniffing, cottage doors breaking, and burly, handcuffed men ushered into Alfa Romeos. And then, of course, in the press, the humiliating wiretaps of gangsters sharing their secrets. Cosa Nostra is back in the headlines, and back under the cosh.Italian law enforcement is good at this stuff. Not a single one of the 181 men and women targeted for arrest on 11 February managed to go on the lam before the crackdown. Based on the numbers alone, this raid was the biggest anti-mafia operation ...

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30 h. ago Which English arboreal project occupies 200 square miles? The Saturday quiz

From back, basting and zigzag to ‘the stuff that dreams are made of’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What TV cliffhanger was resolved on 21 November 1980?2 Which body in the solar system has lakes of liquid methane?3 What Yorkshire side were the first national women’s football league champions?4 In a 1941 film, what was “the stuff that dreams are made of”?5 Who writes the Empyrean fantasy book series?6 What does the US defense department classify as UAP?7 What arboreal project occupies 200 square miles of central England?8 Which monarch was killed in 1057 at the Battle of Lumphanan?What links: 9 Emotion icon; glamorous camping; smoke and fog; fan magazine; romantic comedy?10 Cantuar; Dunelm; Ebor; Petriburg; Roffen; Sarum?11 Tom Cruise (6.5 mins, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation); Kate Winslet (7.25 mins, Avatar: The Way of Water)?12 Seth Pecksniff; Howard Roark; Anthony Royal; Rudolf Santonix?13 Back; basting; blind; cross; running; slip; zigzag?14 8 (1950-60); 9 (19...

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32 h. ago The Independent Spirit Awards are today. Here’s everything you need to know

Oscar nominees like Mikey Madison, Demi Moore and Sebastian Stan will be making a stop by the beach for the Film Independent Spirit Awards where all are up for acting awards

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32 h. ago My Fault: London's filming locations including a Spanish island hotspot but it's not Ibiza

My Fault: London has gained a lot of attention in the past week but as viewers drool over the sunny filming locations, one of the scenes was actually set on this Spanish island hotspot

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40 h. ago Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs makes 'terrible confession' about making the film series and reveals why it 'wasn't fun' on set

The actor, 61, starred as Lucius Malfoy in the blockbuster adaptations of J.K. Rowling's magical book series and still gets emotional about the franchise now.

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43 h. ago Noel Clarke loses at Court of Appeal ahead of libel trial with publisher of The Guardian

The TV and film actor Noel Clarke is set to go to court next month in a libel case against The Guardian which published allegations about his professionalism in 2021

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46 h. ago Queen Letizia of Spain oozes glamour in a maroon Massimo Dutti dress as she attends Tudela Film Festival

The royal, 52, looked in high spirits as she arrived in at the Tudela Film Festival where many crowds were waiting to catch a glimpse of the Queen.

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46 h. ago The Monkey star Theo James' forgotten role in The Inbetweeners that fans 'can't unsee'

Those settling down to watch new horror film The Monkey might get a sense of déjà vu

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47 h. ago The Oscars are more international than ever. So why is the international film category broken?

The Oscars are more international than ever

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47 h. ago Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond

007 stars offer mixed reactions to deal with the British-American heirs to the film producer Albert ‘Cubby’ BroccoliBusiness live – latest updatesAmazon has paid more than $1bn for “creative control” of the James Bond franchise, the Guardian understands, in a deal that has met with a mixed response from stars of the films.Amazon MGM Studios said on Thursday that it had struck a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the British-American heirs to the film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and longtime stewards of the Bond films. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos: what can we expect from Amazon’s James Bond?

With one of the film industry’s most lucrative franchises signed over to Amazon MGM, 007 could be facing down the barrel of spin-offs, quasi-crowdsourcing and a cinematic universe to rival MarvelThe ink could hardly have dried on the contract between Amazon MGM and Eon Productions, the legendary Bond film company run by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, before Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos put up a social media post that went to the heart of the conundrum faced by one of the film industry’s most lucrative franchises: “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?”The reality underlying Broccoli and Wilson’s decision to cede control to Amazon, the company that has since 2021 been responsible for co-producing Bond films after its purchase of MGM, is that since it became apparent that Daniel Craig wanted to leave the role, the franchise has been struck by a kind of creative paralysis. We are used to increasingly long gaps between their release, but with no new lead actor in sight, Bond 26 has still no...

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47 h. ago Here's where you can stream Grand Theft Hamlet, the documentary shot entirely in GTA Online

Grand Theft Hamlet is now available to stream on Mubi.

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48 h. ago ‘When the chips are down, Jack Nicholson is there’: Anjelica Huston on love, loss and legal drama

From being told she couldn’t act to winning an Oscar, the Hollywood star has had a wild life. She talks old flames, being tucked up in bed for her new Agatha Christie mystery, and why she’s happiest when surrounded by donkeysGiven that Lady Tressilian rarely leaves her boudoir, it was an enjoyable role. “I was very happily in bed, one of my favourite places, generally,” says Anjelica Huston, of the regal aristo she plays in the new BBC adaptation of the 1944 Agatha Christie mystery Towards Zero. Despite the fact she is mostly horizontal, occasionally at a chair by the window and peering through a telescope at the Devon bay beyond, Tressilian is a domineering character, presiding over the younger relations she has assembled at her seaside home and making her displeasure known at their various life choices. There will, of course, be murders.Huston was reminded of the older women she had known from her childhood in Ireland, “mostly on the hunting field, but occasionally in their bedroo...

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48 h. ago James Bond fans fume franchise will be 'destroyed' as bosses make bold decision

Film fans are not happy with the latest decision regarding the future of the James Bond franchise and many of them have taken to social media to share their frustrations

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49 h. ago Sandalheimer: can Christopher Nolan restore the grandeur of ancient

Once a prestige genre with lavish spectacle and global stars, it’s since grown pretty dusty and drear. But Nolan’s Odyssey may yet revive its bronzed vigourBack in the 1950s and 60s in the twilight of Hollywood’s golden era, the sword-and-sandals movie stood as tall as the Colossus of Rhodes. It was a time when burly men in togas and gleaming bronze breastplates fought existential battles with fate. When Ben-Hur had its chariot race, Spartacus roused cries of defiance and the odd moment of splendid anachronism, and Cleopatra had Elizabeth Taylor burning through costume changes like a pharaoh with an Amex card.And then, it all collapsed. By the 1970s, audiences weren’t interested in ancient glories any more; they wanted Vietnam war movies, paranoid political thrillers and antiheroes who didn’t spend half their films glistening in olive oil. By the time Star Wars arrived in the late 70s and early 80s, the genre had been survived only through low-rent Italian productions, where togas w...

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49 h. ago Beta Film Boards Leticia Dolera's 'Pubertat,' a Max Original

Beta Film Boards Leticia Dolera's 'Pubertat,' a Max Original  Variety

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50 h. ago Best Stephen King Films 2025: Here are the 11 most critically

With The Monkey now in cinemas we’re taking a look at the best films based on Stephen King books.

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50 h. ago Bond actress claims 007 ‘won’t be British anymore’ after Amazon announcement

There has been increasing speculation about the future of the series, with no announcement of a new actor to play the spy since Daniel Craig’s exit.

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51 h. ago Daniel Craig reacts as Amazon takes full creative control of James Bond franchise

Amazon secured the rights to the iconic film series when it acquired MGM for $8.45 billion (£6.69 billion) in 2022, integrating it into its parent studio

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52 h. ago Oscars 2025: best actor nominees – awards, interviews and what their chances are

What to know about the actors nominated for the Academy Awards’ biggest acting prize, along with the Guardian’s reviews and interviewsFull list of nominationsWant more? Our guide to the best picture raceAhead of the 2 March Oscars ceremony, the Guardian film looks at how the big contenders are shaping up in the race for glory. We sort through the nominees for the best actor Oscar, assessing each one’s chances and how you can watch or stream each film. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago The Monkey star Tatiana Maslany’s life including bonkers show she played 13 characters in

The actress stars in an adaptation of Stephen King's short story The Monkey

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53 h. ago Bonnie Blue breaks silence on 'pregnancy' as her rival Lily Philips sparks fresh fury

Controversial film star Bonnie Blue has broken her silence after sparking pregnancy rumours, at the same time her fellow content creator Lily Phillips 'pulled a stunt' with a baby bump

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53 h. ago This is the year the Oscars found God – but can they keep the faith?

From Conclave to The Brutalist to A Real Pain, films about religion are unusually well represented at the Academy Awards – some with decidedly unorthodox themes• Warning: contains spoilersWhat Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell said of New Labour – “We don’t do God” – applies also to the Academy Awards. The secular gong-dispensing rite annually sweeps religion off its proverbial red carpet. The last best picture winner to deal with the subject was 2015’s Spotlight, which hardly proselytised for organised religion – it dramatised the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic church. You have to go back to 1973 to find a movie with a priestly protagonist that really beguiled the Academy: William Friedkin’s horror movie The Exorcist received 10 Oscar nominations, winning awards for screenplay and sound.This year, though, may be different. Two leading contenders, The Brutalist (10 nominations) and Conclave (eight), put faith front and centre. And let’...

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58 h. ago Stephen King's latest adaptation called 'gory chaos' and 'deliriously entertaining' is out now

A ridiculously entertaining gory romp that could be destined to become a future horror classic is now in cinemas

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60 h. ago Don't let Big Tech steal UK's creative genius: Music, TV, film and publishing bosses back major Mail campaign to stop Labour letting US AI giants plunder their work for free

Senior figures from the worlds of music, media and film last night backed a major new Daily Mail campaign to protect Britain's creative industries from the threat of AI.

Culture

61 h. ago The name's Bezos... Jeff Bezos! Broccoli family hands over 'creative control' of 007 film franchise to Amazon then boss asks: Who'll be the next James Bond?

The 007 films will no longer be produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the daughter and stepson of Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli who launched the British spy franchise in 1962.

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65 h. ago Babygirl star Harris Dickinson shares raunchy fan response to film he didn't expect

The actor also had an embarrassing moment at a cinema

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65 h. ago Harris Dickinson on Babygirl fan's bizarre remark that left him speechless

The actor shared how the older generation reacted to his latest film

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66 h. ago SAG Awards presenters will include Grande, Chalamet, Erivo and Yeoh

Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Mikey Madison and other stars of the top Screen Actors Guild Awards film nominees will be among the presenters at Sunday’s ceremony

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67 h. ago What does the Amazon MGM Studios deal mean for the James Bond series?

Amazon acquired creative control of the film series on Thursday.

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68 h. ago 'RIP James Bond': 007 fans react with fury as Broccoli dynasty hands over 'creative control' of film franchise to Amazon amid fears deal will trigger a glut of TV spin

Bond fans took to social media to share their fears of Bond going the way of other iconic franchises that have been bought out by entertainment giants.

Economics

68 h. ago I watched Bridget Jones 4 and it gave me strange flashbacks to these Noughties events

The film has unlocked a few dusty memories

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69 h. ago Who will be the next Doctor Who? Here are the 9 actors tipped to take over the TARDIS

If reports are to be believed then there may be a new Doctor Who sooner rather than later.

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2 d. ago Amazon to gain creative control of James Bond in joint venture deal

The move follows Amazon MGM acquiring the rights to distribute Bond movies in 2022

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2 d. ago James Bond Latest: Amazon take control of 007 as producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson step back

This news could change the future for the world’s most famous spy.

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2 d. ago James Bond producers give Amazon full creative control of 007

Deal struck with heirs to legendary film producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, long-serving stewards of franchiseBusiness live – latest updatesJames Bond is now in the hands of a billionaire’s business empire, after Amazon announced it has acquired creative control of the spy franchise from the Broccoli dynasty.Amazon MGM Studios said it had struck a deal with Michael G Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli, the heirs to the legendary film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, and long-time stewards of the Bond films. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Amazon MGM takes creative reins of James Bond, ending an era of family control of 007

In a James Bond shakeup that stirred the film industry, MGM Amazon announced that the studio has taken the creative reins of the 007 franchise after decades of family control

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2 d. ago Who will direct the new James Bond Film? Here are the 15 favourites to take on 007

An announcement on the next James Bond film is expected at some point this year.

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2 d. ago Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical at Secret Cinema 2025: How to get tickets

Grease is the word this summer, and Secret Cinema has a special event dedicated to it

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2 d. ago Rapper Aitch draws massive crowd after being spotted filming in Greater Manchester town

Aitch was spotted with a large film crew

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3 d. ago This Morning fans seriously distracted by Pamela Anderson's appearance as she promotes new film The Last Showgirl

The 57-year-old appeared on the ITV show to chat to presenter Alison Hammond about taking on the role of Shelly in the movie.

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3 d. ago Nihilistic, anarchic, repugnant: Sam Peckinpah’s 10 best films – ranked!

The revered but divisive American director, who died in 1984, would have turned 100 this week. We rate his greatest movies, from Straw Dogs to The Wild BunchAfter making his name as a director of westerns, Sam Peckinpah was given his first shot at making a major studio film – an epic about a tyrannical cavalry officer (Charlton Heston) leading an expedition into Mexico. The production set a template for later Peckinpah films – heavy drinking, personality clashes, battles with the suits, and a final cut not matching the director’s vision. Major Dundee was a victim of its chaotic ambition and it’s easy to see why it flopped on release: even in the 2005 restored version, it is hopelessly unfocused, taking in Dundee’s Moby-Dick-like mission to track down an Apache chief, the dynamics of the US civil war, encounters with the French army and an unconvincing romantic interlude. But it’s interestingly flawed, a sort of dry run for The Wild Bunch, and Richard Harris is entertaining as Benjam...

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3 d. ago Oscars 2025: Is the Academy Award the most valuable trophy in the world of TV and Film?

Just how much is an Academy Award worth - and is it the most valuable prize in town? 🤔🏆🎞

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3 d. ago BFI Future Film Festival 2025: Jury, nominees, and £15,000 in prizes announced for UK’s top filmmakers event

With Sony gear, exclusive mentorship, and global streaming, the festival has become the premier platform for young talent

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3 d. ago ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees label was economic madness amid film boom, says Nandy

Lisa Nandy said targeted support for the arts and culture sector will help create jobs and achieve economic ‘growth’ throughout the country.

Economics

3 d. ago EGOT Winners 2025: Here are all 21 artists to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony

The upcoming Oscars could see a 22nd person join the most exclusive of clubs.

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3 d. ago Nandy to question BBC over documentary featuring child of Hamas minister

Culture minister Lisa Nandy said that it was ‘essential that we get this right’ following a call for the broadcaster to pull the film.

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3 d. ago To be or not to be: could actors really pull off staging Hamlet in the violent video game Grand Theft Auto?

During lockdown, an out-of-work actor discovered a venue within the bestselling game and decided to put on Shakespeare’s great work with friends... they just had to avoid the audience shooting them

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3 d. ago ‘Tears were running down my face’: why Bridget Jones 4 is the most moving romcom of modern times

Word back from the cinemas is united – and sniffly: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is leaving audiences in surprising puddles. Our writers reveal the moment that made then sob loudest, and why• This article contains spoilers I managed to cry before the opening titles, at a scene so innocuous that I must have disconcerted those around me. Bridget picks up her daughter’s stuffed rabbit, sniffs it, says “It stinks!”, then kisses it anyway. It hints at the radical self-acceptance our widowed protagonist seems determined to instil in her children – but it’s also testament to the amount of Bridget lore heaped into this film. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Stranger Things star Matthew Modine says a lot of his female co

Modine, 65 is best known for playing James 'Joker' Davis in Stanley Kubrick's brutal war film Full Metal Jacket and, more recently, portraying Dr Brenner in Netflix's smash hit Stranger Things.

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3 d. ago Coronation Street's Julie Carp star has Hollywood actor son who starred in mega film alongside Emily Blunt

Coronation Street's Julie Carp actress Katy Cavanagh has a Hollywood star for a son who has appeared in some of the biggest films and TV shows in the world.

Culture

3 d. ago War of words: who is winning the Oscar for best acceptance speech?

This season’s awards circuit has seen Demi Moore and Sean Baker praised for their speeches, but how much does that contribute to the big win?Winning an Oscar for acting has never looked particularly easy, even if certain types of performances – physical transformations, celebrity impressions – always seem to maintain an edge over others. One major factor contributing to the Oscar’s degree of difficulty is that the job doesn’t end when the movie does. There’s a whole season of awards campaigning requiring a different sort of performance – the equivalent of being thrown into an overtime that lasts far longer than the actual on-field game play. If awards season had a playbook for how to win this endless overtime, it would probably focus on acceptance speeches.There’s no better example than Demi Moore’s bonus-round performance at this year’s Golden Globes. As an awards body, the Globes are a longtime joke – a recently rebooted organization that can never claim any voting-body overlap wi...

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3 d. ago Why IS Trump putty in Putin's hands? Rumours of Russian kompromat have been dismissed as 'fake news' by US president so what is the real reason he's cosying up to Putin?

In 2013 Miss Universe, American Olivia Culpo , travelled to Moscow to film a music video with a Russian pop star who was the son of a billionaire real estate mogul with ties to President Vladimir Putin.

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3 d. ago Schmeichel review – a spirited celebration of Man United’s great Dane

Goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel reflects on his Champions League triumph, on-pitch aggression, double-agent dad and son Kasper in a fan-friendly documentaryThis is a pretty respectable entry in the current corporate-landfill era of sports documentaries. It’s the customary slavishly admiring portrait of its subject, the Danish goalkeeper who anchored Manchester United to a string of league titles and Denmark to the European Championships, but you are left with a sense that, somehow, Peter Schmeichel is a big enough character to justify it. Inevitably, the film also acts as yet another outpost of the “Football, bloody hell!” documentary industrial complex, with one more airing of the footage of United’s Champions League final triumph.Admittedly, there’s now an extra dimension to Clive Tyldesley’s strangulated shrieks as United scored their winner: this was Schmeichel’s last game for the side, having unexpectedly announced his exit from the team earlier in the season. It’s a piquant moment...

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3 d. ago I spent the night living like Bridget Jones at one of London's most historic hotels on the ultimate nostalgia trip

I embraced my inner Bridget Jones ahead of watching her fourth film, Mad About the Boy.

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3 d. ago Longlegs director Osgood Perkins: ‘I am an authority in losing people in insane ways’

The actor-turned-filmmaker – who you may recognise from, yes, ‘Legally Blonde’ – has directed a new film about an evil mechanical monkey. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about grief, his mother’s tragic death on 9/11, and getting to know his famous father – ‘Psycho’ star Anthony – through his films

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3 d. ago 'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs points to a policy | FT Film

The FT investigates the rise in cases of Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian prisoners of war

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3 d. ago Slow Horses sparks parking row: Homeowners are slapped with fines as Camden council suspends residents' spaces and school bay to accommodate film crew

Shooting was taking place on Monday at the Ackland Burghley school in Tufnell Park and filmmakers were given permission to suspend three separate parking bays across two roads.

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3 d. ago Zach Bryan gets in heated altercation with man using Meta glasses to film in NYC bar

The 28-year-old artist can be heard saying, ‘You’re going to see some terrible things tonight’

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3 d. ago Colin Firth action movie would have been major franchise if not for one big issue, say fans

The Kingsman series seemed to be heading for an ever-present franchise around the time of the release of the first film, with a star-studded cast led by Colin Firth

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3 d. ago Paul McCartney says ‘what you saw was what you got’ with Twiggy in film trailer

The latest trailer for the documentary shows the model posing for photographers, being interviewed and reflecting on her career.

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3 d. ago Amazon Prime just added 'greatest revenge film ever' with Nic Cage that 'will not disappoint'

Some fans believe the actor should have been nominated for an Oscar.

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3 d. ago James Corden films dark comedy with two huge stars after success of Gavin and Stacey special

The actor, 46, was seen shooting scenes of the Steven Soderbergh-directed film in London

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3 d. ago Drømmer (Dreams) review – teen’s high romantic hopes throw adults into disarray

When Johanne, at 17, writes a memoir about her passion for teacher Johanna, the precocious result rattles three generationsHere is the third in a playful trilogy from Norwegian novelist and film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud (after Sex and Love, which appeared last year at Berlin and Venice respectively). This one is a sly, garrulous, mischievous piece with something of Lukas Moodysson’s early film Show Me Love; it saunters lightly and entertainingly along, breaking all the screenplay-seminar rules against voiceovers (of which it has lengthy stretches but it never feels oppressive). I can imagine two different sorts of US English-language remake: one which ramps up the wry indie comedy, and another which transfers the emphasis to a dead-serious generational family drama. Neither would have this insouciant flavour.The setting is Oslo and Ella Øverbye plays Johanne, a 17-year-old at high school who is dissatisfied with her life; she lives with single mum Kristin (Ane Dahl Torp) and is also...

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4 d. ago Glasgow Short Film Festival: 'First' animated opera leads 'unleashed' programme

Scottish Opera has created a 14-minute animated film which will be screened at the Glasgow Short Film Festival

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4 d. ago ‘You just want to rewind and watch it again and again’: readers choose the most romantic moments in cinema

From uplifting declarations of undying love to shared plates of spaghetti and tearful resignations of what might have been, these are the movie scenes that have touched our readers’ heartsLast week, Guardian writers shared their favourite romantic moments in cinema – here are some more chosen by readers from around the world. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ian McKellen, 85, returns to work for the first time since his horror West End stage fall as he joins James Corden and Jessica Gunning to film dark comedy The Christophers

The Lord of the Rings actor was in a jovial spirit as he was joined on the movie set by Gavin and Stacey star James Corden.

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4 d. ago New Pedro Pascal film trailer leaves fans in tears after Euphoria star's surprise appearance

Pedro Pascal fans were left emotional after spotting a heartbreaking detail in the trailer for his forthcoming movie Freaky Tales

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4 d. ago James Bond fans to wait THREE years for film's next installment amid legal issues as ex director shares updates

It still isn't confirmed who will be stepping into Daniel Craig's shoes to play the next James Bond. 

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4 d. ago A$AP Rocky returns to a life of music, fashion, film and Rihanna with his acquittal

A$AP Rocky gets to return to life at the peak of his fame instead of the long prison sentence that might have come from a conviction at his felony trial

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4 d. ago I Am Martin Parr review – enjoyable study of tragicomic Britain’s inspired photographer

Valuable documentary on the vigilant genius whose highly coloured 70s and 80s images revealed the white working class as never beforeThe beguiling work of English photographer Martin Parr is the subject of this brief, but thoroughly enjoyable study which sets out to introduce his extraordinary work, particularly the fierce brilliance of his colour images in the 70s and 80s celebrating the white working class on holiday.Parr is an inspired combination of seaside-postcard artist Donald McGill and Alan Bennett, with a bit of American street photographer Vivian Maier, and a sliver of Diane Arbus, although the grotesques in which Arbus specialised are not what Parr has in mind. Everyone here is at pains to emphasise that Parr is never cruel or mocking, and, yes, it’s quite true. But as a real artist, Parr naturally has what Graham Greene called the splinter of ice in his heart. He knows what makes a brilliant image and the person involved is unlikely to find it flattering. (David Walliam...

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4 d. ago I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappearedThe subtlety and dignity of Fernanda Torres’s Oscar-nominated performance in Walter Salles’s new film have been rightly praised. This is a kind of mother-courage true story: the case of Eunice Paiva, a Brazilian woman who had to keep her family together and shield her five children from despair when her activist husband Rubens was brutally “disappeared” in 1971 by the military dictatorship. They refused even to admit he had been arrested, or later officially admit his death, in a state-sanctioned act of cruelty which was only finally acknowledged in the mid-90s after decades of campaigning, when the government issued a formal death certificate.I’m Still Here is a drama which intelligently seeks to intuit the courageously maintained calm that Eunice imposes on herself and the children when the thuggish secret police arrive. Torres is effectively t...

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4 d. ago Oscars 2025: best picture nominees – reviews, awards and where to watch

What to know about the 10 films nominated for the Academy Award’s biggest prize, along with the reviews, interviews and the big prizes earned so far• Full list of Oscar nominationsThe Golden Globes and Baftas are done and dusted, the Critics Choices packed up for another year. But the big one, the Academy Awards, is yet to come, and with it the ultimate prizes the film industry can bestow on its peers. Ahead of the 2 March Oscars ceremony, Guardian film looks at how are the big contenders shaping up in the race for glory. We sort through the nominees for the best picture Oscar, assessing each one’s chances and how you can watch or stream each film. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Afflicted with liberal angst in the age of Trump? Take a leaf from Bridget Jones’s diary | Rafael Behr

The new movie wasn’t conceived as an allegory of the current international crisis, but for a generation of fans it works on that level When future generations study creative works that capture the unsettled spirit of our age, they might easily neglect Bridget Jones 4: Mad About the Boy. The movie isn’t about the historical inflection point that coincides with its release. It doesn’t feature Donald Trump, his vandalism of US democracy or his dissolution of the transatlantic alliance. Such things are not the stuff of romantic comedy. Also, they hadn’t yet happened in 2013, when Helen Fielding wrote the book on which the film is based.But the lack of intentional allegory doesn’t prevent us projecting one on to the story. Or maybe it was just me, experiencing a sentimental hallucination induced by events outside the cinema. Indulge me a moment (and forgive any plot spoilers), as I explain. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘Grow up’: Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce’s allegation that he ‘targeted’ him

‘I’ve got nothing to hide’ says Spacey, after the Australian actor said he is attempting to be more candid about his former co-star’s alleged behaviourKevin Spacey has responded to Guy Pearce’s allegation that the actor “targeted him” during the filming of LA Confidential, telling Pearce to “grow up” and “you are not a victim”.On Monday, Pearce expanded further on his alleged experiences with Spacey, having previously called him “a handsy guy” in 2018. Spacey, who has been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct, has conceded he made some “clumsy” approaches to men in the past, but never anything illegal. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Kevin Spacey vehemently denies ‘targeting’ Guy Pearce on 1997 film: ‘Grow up’

Pearce claimed on a recent podcast that his ‘L.A. Confidential’ co-star Spacey made him feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘scared’ on set

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4 d. ago ‘Grow up’: Kevin Spacey responds to Guy Pearce’s accusation that actor ‘targeted’ him on 1997 film

Pearce claimed on a recent podcast that his ‘L.A. Confidential’ co-star Spacey made him feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘scared’ on set

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4 d. ago Kevin Spacey hits back at Guy Pearce in video after actor said he was 'scared' of disgraced Oscar

Kevin Spacey has hit back at Guy Pearce's claims he was 'scared of him' on the set of 1997 film, LA Confidential.

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