1 hour ago Tom Cruise is joined by his dazzling leading ladies Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and Hannah Waddingham at the very A

Man of the moment Tom Cruise led the A-list arrivals on the red carpet at the premiere of his Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning during Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

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2 h. ago What's happened at the Cannes Film Festival so far — and what's still to come

This year’s Cannes Film Festival has barely started and already has been an attention-grabbing affair, from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential U.S. tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise

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2 h. ago Eva Longoria dazzles in a green sequinned gown as she poses up a storm at Mission Impossible premiere during Cannes Film Festival

The actress, 50, stole the show as graced the star-studded red carpet in the stunning figure-hugging dress featuring a halterneck design and short train.

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2 h. ago Halle Berry cuts a stylish figure in an oversized shirt and £30k Birkin bag as during Cannes Film Festival

The Catwoman star, 56, opted for an oversized striped button-up shirt with a pair of distressed cropped boyfriend jeans for the outing.

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3 h. ago JENNI MURRAY: I feel terribly depressed whenever I see a talented woman stepping out with her breasts on show

Three cheers for the organisers of the Cannes Film Festival which kicked off this week. They have imposed a ban on nudity on the red carpet.

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3 h. ago ‘We couldn’t tell if he was conscious’: Tom Cruise got stuck on top of biplane shooting Mission: Impossible sequel

The star, who at 62 performed his own stunts for the forthcoming Final Reckoning, tells Cannes press conference ‘I don’t mind encountering the unknown’Tom Cruise got stuck on the wing of a biplane shortly before it ran out fuel during the filming of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the director of the eighth instalment of the action franchise has revealed.Speaking to an audience at the Cannes film festival hours before the film’s premiere, director Christopher McQuarrie recounted the filming of a stunt sequence in which Cruise, in his long-running role as the field agent Ethan Hunt, walked between between the two wings of a biplane as the aircraft was mid-air over South Africa. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Sound of Falling review – intergenerational angst haunts a German farmhouse

Cannes film festival Told in four different timeframes in the same rural family home, this story of national guilt and yearning is powerfully unsettlingHere is a mysterious and uncanny prose-poem of guilt, shame and yearning in 20th-century Germany, and the 21st; a drama of intergenerational trauma and genetic memories, visions and experiences suppressed and handed on to descendants and grandchildren in whom they can return as neurotic symptoms of the repressed.There are visual rhymes and unexplained cosmic echoes, and the film speaks of militarism and resentment, guilt and horror, with dark hints of abuse and sterilisation, the female slavery of domestic servitude and the pastoral world of rural Germany in which the city’s political currents are only dimly perceived. And it gestures at the terrible pathos of the old GDR, which laboured and sacrificed for 40 years after the war in Soviet vassalage finally to discover it was for nothing. The film’s original German title is In Die Son...

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4 h. ago Simon Pegg shows off his edgy new look as he poses with a diamond gun necklace at Mission Impossible photocall during Cannes Film Festival

The actor, 55, posed for some fun photos wearing a diamond gun necklace while walking the red carpet at Palais des Festivals.

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4 h. ago Cannes controversies: now critics protest about lack of access to stars

Jo-Ann Titmarsh reports from Cannes on the controversies that have hit this year’s film festival, which now sees film critics protesting, as well as De Niro speaking out against Trump and jury president Juliette Binoche having her say on Gérard Depardieu

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5 h. ago Hannah Waddingham joins Tom Cruise at Mission: Impossible photocall in Cannes

Cruise, 62, sported Top Gun-style sunglasses during the event.

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6 h. ago The wildest Cannes Film Festival looks of all time as new nudity ban is enforced

The festival organizers instated their new dress code just one day before the affair kicked off

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7 h. ago Tom Cruise shows off his youthful appearance as arrives at Cannes without girlfriend Ana de Armas ahead of the Mission Impossible premiere

Tom Cruise appeared in great spirits as he waved to the crowd while arriving in Cannes on Wednesday ahead of the Mission Impossible premiere. 

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8 h. ago Bella Hadid pushes the boundaries of Cannes Film Festival 'naked' new dress rule

Cannes Film Festival implemented a last minute dress code rule putting an end to celebrities showing up to the red carpet with risqué outfits, and long time attendee Bella Hadid didn't disappoint

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9 h. ago Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

Cannes film festival This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family The directors fortnight sidebar of Cannes opens with a heartfelt, urgent drama about youth and desire – and destiny, sexuality and class. It is, effectively, the final movie of the late Laurent Cantet, who died last year.Cantet was working on the screenplay with his longtime collaborator and contemporary, Robin Campillo and it is Campillo who now directs – and brings to the movie his usual intelligence and clarity. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Simon Pegg credits Mission: Impossible films for rescuing him from his alcoholism

The star struggled with depression throughout his first ‘Mission: Impossible’ film

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11 h. ago Juliette Binoche says Gerard Depardieu is ‘not a monster’ after guilty sexual assault verdict

Court ruling arrived same day Binoche launched Cannes Film Festival as 2025 jury president

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14 h. ago Robert De Niro attacks ‘philistine president’ Trump at Cannes Film Festival for targeting art

‘We can’t just sit back and watch. We have to act, and we have to act now – not with violence, but with great passion and determination,’ said the actor

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15 h. ago Tom Cruise returns to Cannes with 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning'

Three years after Tom Cruise and “Top Gun: Maverick” flew into the Cannes Film Festival, he’s coming back Wednesday to the Croisette with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”

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18 h. ago Ana de Armas, 37, flashes her abs as she steps out in New York while boyfriend Tom Cruise, 62, prepares for Cannes premiere of new Mission: Impossible film

Ana de Armas cut a stylish figure as she exited her hotel in New York City while her boyfriend Tom Cruise appeared on the set of C à vous during the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. 

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20 h. ago French actress Frederique Bel defies the Cannes Film Festival 'nudity crackdown' as she steps out in risqué gold sequinned gown

The French actress and model, 50, wasn't afraid to flash some skin in the racy ensemble, which featured a series of different cut-outs.

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