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  • Anthony Bajon in Maldoror, directed by Fabrice Du Wel.

    Venice film festival
    Maldoror review – true-crime serial killer procedural induces stomach-turning horror

    Inspired by a notorious real-life case, Fabrice Du Welz’s film starts strong but gets lost in the murky waters of conspiracy
  • Film still: QUEER - Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey Credits Yannis Drakoulidis

    Venice film festival
    Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama

  • ‘No one is going to fund us’ … Stephen (left) and Timothy Quay, with the set for their short film This Unnameable Little Broom.

    ‘We never went down the Aardman route’: how the Brothers Quay rocked the animation world

  • Everyone seems bored and half asleep … Harvest

    Harvest review – folk non-horror an exasperating experience

  • ‘If I wasn’t in this movie I would want to be in it’ …Daniel Craig at the Venice film festival.

    ‘There’s nothing intimate about filming a sex scene’: Daniel Craig opens up about new film Queer

  • ‘Our producer ran out of the toilet yelling’ … Backbeat.

    ‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat

  • Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodovar and Julianne Moore attend the photocall for The Room Next Door at the Venice film festival.

    Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’

  • They stand on a boat in the sunshine, Clooney in grey jacket, Pitt in a pale blue one

    Don’t believe supposed salary figures for new film Wolfs, says Clooney

  • The Apprentice. Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Donald Trump himself. composite.

    Controversial Trump biopic to receive pre-election release in US

  • Nicole Kidman with Harris Dickinson in a scene from Babygirl

    Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl sets pulses racing at Venice film festival

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  • The Alien attacking a woman in the dark

    Alien: Romulus – grungy, back-to-basics instalment goes over same old ground

  • Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg in  The Union.

    The Union – Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg heat up Netflix action flick

    The stars’ rapport helps retain your interest in a preposterous international caper that has something vaguely to do with justice
  • John Cena and Awkwafina in Jackpot!

    Jackpot! - Awkwafina and John Cena strapped into stunt-heavy action comedy

    The efforts of a strong cast to make a future dystopia into knockabout fun result in a discordant mismash of general ridiculousness
  • Coraline – delightfully creepy coming-of-age fantasy offers more than just scares

  • It Ends with Us – Blake Lively anchors glossy romance adaptation

  • Borderlands – Cate Blanchett is wasted in janky video game adventure

  • Cuckoo – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

  • Daughters – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

  • Trap – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess

  • Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie – another enjoyably madcap SpongeBob adventure

  • The Instigators – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

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Video & audio

  • Alain Delon: a look back at the actor's prolific career – video

  • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

    What’s the deal with celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies? This week, Chanté chats to actor and crypto-skeptic Ben McKenzie, star of The OC and Gotham, about how cryptocurrencies infiltrated Hollywood and his transition from actor to investigative journalist
  • Guardian G2<br>Victoria Pendleton, photographed by Suki Dhanda for The Guardian, January 2024
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    Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters? – podcast

    Victoria Pendleton is one of Britain’s greatest ever athletes, but has often felt like a failure and fraud. She tells Simon Hattenstone about her Olympic golds, the misery that came with them, and the joy she has found since she retired. And Twisters is the tornado blockbuster that almost has it all. But its two hot stars – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones – avoid a climactic smooch. Is Steven Spielberg to blame?
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    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy - podcast

  • bed illustration

    Does murder count if you’re asleep? Marina Hyde on Christian Horner’s F1 drama; and how inanity ruined the red carpet – podcast

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  • film still of two women wearing sunglasses and straw hats

    Blink Twice and the problem with #MeToo thrillers

    Adrian Horton
  • Jennifer Lopez,Ben Affleck<br>Jennifer Lopez, right, and Ben Affleck kiss upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Last Duel' during the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

    Bennifer is over – again. But why does Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s divorce feel so sad?

    Sian Cain
  • PURPLE NOON (aka Plein Soleil) 1959 Paris Film/Paritalia production with Alain Delon<br>E7X3BK PURPLE NOON (aka Plein Soleil) 1959 Paris Film/Paritalia production with Alain Delon

    Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Superbly intelligent … Gena Rowlands in Opening Night.

    Gena Rowlands: the fiercest, most incandescent star of US indie cinema

  • Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

    Adrian Horton
  • ‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

  • Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

    Guy Lodge
  • Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

    Pamela Hutchinson
  • Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

  • Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?

  • Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage
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  • Heavily shadowed head-and-shoulders portrait of Arthur Harari, who is seated and wearing a black blazer and T-shirt

    ‘Everyone recognises her now – me, not so much’: Arthur Harari on how Anatomy of a Fall catapulted him and Justine Triet to film power couple status

  • And breathe … Robert Sheehan

    Robert Sheehan: ‘My anxiety had got to the point where if I was left alone I was a twitching mess’

    He’s known for freewheeling roles in Misfits and The Umbrella Academy, but now he’s written a book on meditation. What led him to this mindful career pivot?
  • Closeup portrait of Jason Schwartzman with a purple/orange background.

    Jason Schwartzman: ‘I was the kid driving around all the record stores buying all the Oasis singles’

    The actor answers your questions on auditioning for Wes Anderson, his love of Britpop, his telepathic mother and never hearing back from Ringo Starr
  • Eddie Peng with Xin in Black Dog.

    ‘He isn’t just a pet. He is a character’: Black Dog director Guan Hu on filming an indescribable bond

  • Juliet Stevenson photographed by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review.

    Juliet Stevenson: ‘I didn’t read Alan Rickman’s diaries ... I know what my relationship with him was like’

  • Roddy Doyle in Dublin, 2024.

    Roddy Doyle: ‘People used to say I was undermining family life … ludicrous stuff’

  • Gillian Anderson, with long blonde, layered hair, wearing a white dress with a fringed cut-out on one side, shot against a draped, pale peach coloured silky material

    ‘We’re not as open about sex as we imagine’: Gillian Anderson on pleasure, powerful women, and collecting secret fantasies

Regulars

  • Colman Domingo as John Whitfield, aka Divine G, dressed in stage costume including a crown for a prison production in Sing Sing.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is magnetic in moving real-life US prison drama

  • Will Smith in I Am Legend, WALL·E. and Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the best post-apocalyptic films

  • Hugo Weaving as Elrond in The Lord of the Rings.

    Week in geek
    Hugo Weaving says he spent too long on Middle-earth. But he’s not the first actor to detest a classic

    Ben Child
  • A few of Martin Scorsese’s favourite British films (clockwise from top left): Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde; To the Public Danger; The Legend of Hell House; and ‘dark gem’ Went the Day Well?

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Martin Scorsese’s love of British cinema

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    Summer box office 2024: what were the big winners and losers?

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