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28  mars     11h00
Mary Poppins review - Disney’s entertainment sugar rush possesses thermonuclear brilliance
Peter Bradshaw    Manic, magic, madcap ... Julie Andrews is superb in the role of the flying nanny, in a film filled with amazing songsBrilliant, entrancing, exhausting, and with thermonuclear showtunes from Richard and Robert Sherman, Disney’s hybrid live action animation classic from is now rereleased on home...
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Kung Fu Panda 4 review - Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit
Cath Clarke    The lead pair make a brilliant double act, but the franchise has run out of its signature sweetness and charmThe cuddly kung fu master is back. Jack Black returns as dumpling loving panda Po, the unlikeliest of lean, mean fightin’ machines. It’s been eight years since Kung Fu Panda, and on the...
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Rental places will surge back’: readers on the fight to preserve physical media
Guardian readers    Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenonAt home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify a knack in itself a show or movie we are confident we will want to re watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus review - a stark, emotional finale from master musician
Leslie Felperin    In his last weeks of life, the Oscar winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable careerShort of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer performer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last...
27  mars     16h22
Kinds of Kindness: first trailer released for Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s next film
Catherine Shoard    Lanthimos’s latest film also stars Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Poor Things’s Willem DafoeLess than three weeks after Poor Things took four Oscars, including best actress for Emma Stone, the trailer for their new film has been released.According to its official synopsis, Kinds of Kindness,...
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Tilda Swinton bedtime story among Cinema for Gaza auction lots
Catherine Shoard    Chance to make porridge with Josh O’Connor or be serenaded by Olly Alexander also up for grabs in inaugural online auction to support Medical Aid for Palestinians in GazaDirectors Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg, as well as the cast of shows including Doctor Who and Downton...
20  février     13h16
Disco Boy review - freaky trip into the heart of imperial darkness
Peter Bradshaw    Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama follows Belarusian Aleksei on his journey into the French Foreign Legion and a very strange epiphany in the Niger DeltaItalian director Giacomo Abbruzzese makes a really stylish debut with this visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart...
27  mars     09h00
Mothers’ Instinct review - Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain in 60s-set operatic melodrama
Peter Bradshaw    Thriller about rich suburban housewives whose picture perfect lives belie past traumas lacks the self awareness needed to prevent it from being utterly absurdMaybe a new Catfight of the Year Oscar has to be brought in to reward this hilariously unsubtle and increasingly ridiculous psycho melodrama...
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The Sweet East review - high-school student’s eccentric road trip up and down the coast
Leslie Felperin    A teenage girl meets all manner of extremists, hipsters and hoodlums in Sean Price Williams’ amusing, contemporary adventureHigh school student Lillian Talia Ryder gets separated from her classmates and chaperones at a pizza parlour during a school trip to Washington DC because a deranged shooter...
26  mars     13h00
Wanted Man review - Dolph Lundgren goes south as racist cop on a mission in Mexico
Phil Hoad    Lundgren directs and stars, alongside Kelsey Grammer, in an action movie about a Californian cop who clashes with a drug cartel while recovering from injuryWith seven films under his belt since , Dolph Lundgren has quietly amassed a sizeable directorial portfolio of B movie action flicks but...
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STEVE (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces review - intimate portrait of a comedy legend
Peter Bradshaw    From his childhood job in Disneyland and huge standup success to movie stardom and later life career as a dry humorist this is a fascinating insight into a wild and crazy careerComedian Steve Martin now comes as close as he’s ever going to get to opening up about his life, his thoughts and his...
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Wild Water review - gentle film following West Yorkshire’s most daring swimmers
Cath Clarke    This homespun documentary highlights Gaddings Dam, where intrepid wild swimmers visit in all weathersHere’s a gentle and rather lovely documentary about the community of wild swimmers who dip all year round at Gaddings Dam on the West Yorkshire moors. A beautiful spot, the dam is England’s highest...
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Restore Point review - Czech Blade Runner is a valiant attempt to satisfy cyber-noir cravings
Phil Hoad    Robert Hloz’s debut is a competent copy of Hollywood sci fi, but it’s too heavily indebted to its influences to develop its own philosophyApparently the first sci fi film from the Czech Republic in years, this so called Czech Blade Runner is actually equally indebted to Minority Report whose...
25  mars     09h00
Downstream to Kinshasa review - war survivors set sail on mission for reparations
Phuong Le    Dieudo Hamadi’s documentary is a clear eyed look at the brutal aftermath of the DRC’s six day war’ as disabled victims journey to the capital to present their demands to the governmentDuring one fateful week in June , terror gripped the town of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the...
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Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue review - baby polar bear cartoon is charmless debacle
Catherine Bray    Wisecracking penguins, helpful chickens, a frozen landscape the latest instalment of the terrible Eggs series, which is just as bad as previous onesThere’s a slim possibility that this film’s title might tempt you to imagine it is part of the same universe as Disney’s Frozen. A charming spin off...
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Celluloid Underground review - love letter to a lifelong passion for film and illicit treasure trove
Peter Bradshaw    Iranian critic Ehsan Khoshbakht’s personal essay about a man’s smizdat film print collection shows the lengths cinephiles will go to to protect the art formThe passion of cinephilia is the subject of this absorbing personal essay movie from Iranian critic and film historian Ehsan Khoshbakht, now co...
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Cidade Rabat review - elegant, subtle study of a daughter’s grief
Peter Bradshaw    Portuguese director Susana Nobre explores the sadness of bereavement with deadpan obliqueness in this story about a woman’s reaction to her mother’s deathThere’s a studied impassivity to this elegant Portuguese movie about grief from Susana Nobre. It’s a film that maintains its near affectless...
25  janvier     19h36
Drift review - beautiful yet undercooked character study
Adrian Horton    Cynthia Erivo stars as a west African migrant who befriends Alia Shawkat’s American émigré in this quiet character dramaSave for its few flashback moments of horrific, haunting trauma, Drift, the mostly quiet story of a west African migrant reeling from the unimaginable on a Greek resort isle, is...
27  mars     17h28
Martin Scorsese to host and produce religious docuseries for Fox News
Benjamin Lee    Oscar winning director teaming up with conservative news channel’s streaming service for new series about saintsThe Oscar winning film maker Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Fox News for a new docuseries.The director, who recently scored his th Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon,...
26  mars     12h10
Steven Spielberg denounces antisemitism and makes first comments on Gaza
Andrew Pulver    Schindler’s List director says in speech marking th anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation that he is alarmed that we may ... once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish’Steven Spielberg has denounced the global upsurge of antisemitism, and made his first direct comments about...
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Infamous Titanic floating door prop sells for 718,750
Catherine Shoard    The much debated door from the film, which only had room to save Kate Winslet’s Rose but not Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack, has sold at auctionEver since the release of Titanic in , debate has raged over whether the piece of wood which keeps Kate Winslet’s Rose out of the icy waters could in...
25  mars     16h56
Scarlett Johansson in talks to lead new Jurassic World movie
Benjamin Lee    The Oscar nominee could follow in fellow Marvel star Chris Pratt’s footsteps with a starring role in new dinosaur adventureScarlett Johansson is reportedly in talks to lead a new Jurassic World movie.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the two time Oscar nominated actor could follow on from her...
27  mars     08h00
Shameless, silly and amoral: the new wave of horny lesbian cinema
Daisy Jones    Until recently, sapphic romances generally meant furtive nods in a corset. Today’s queer offerings are fun, unbuttoned and climate appropriateThere’s a scene towards the end of Rose Glass’s romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding in which the leads, Lou Kristen Stewart and Jackie Katy M O’Brian ,...
21  mars     14h34
Kind hearts, ladykillers and whisky galore: Ealing comedies - ranked
Andrew Pulver    Classic heist caper The Lavender Hill Mob is getting a cinema rerelease. But which of these s and s film fancies are slyly subversive, and which have dated less well Anyone wanting a look at Dublin in the late s might like this, but there’s not much else especially compelling about this...
12  mars     08h03
Oscars 2025: who might be in the running for next year’s awards?
Benjamin Lee    The dust may still be settling on this year’s race but next year’s ceremony could see stars such as Angelina Jolie and Barry Keoghan battling it outWhile there were other narratives considered during the long journey to the stage, this year’s Oscars ultimately reminded us that the most obvious is...
07  mars     13h55
Oscars 2024: best picture nominees - reviews, awards and where to watch
Guardian film    The overall Academy Award nominations for each of the best picture films, along with the Guardian’s reviews, interviews and notable prizes earned so farOscars live updatesOscars : the full list of winners live updates The Globes and Baftas are done and dusted, the Critics Choices...
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Is Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan’s finest film? All the director’s movies - ranked
Andrew Pulver    The British film maker is widely anticipated to clean up at the Oscars on Sunday. Ahead of his podium appearances, we rate the director’s masterly oeuvre, from head razing sci fi to superhero defining blockbustersBaby steps of course, but Nolan’s cheap as chips feature debut showed undeniable...
06  mars     12h00
You’ll believe a radioactive dinosaur can shoot fire’: readers’ picks for the 2024 Oscars
Guardian readers    From a tuning fork’ actor to non sensational cannibalism, an under the radar animation to a triple language’d tour de force, your choices ranged far and wideOscars : best picture nominees reviews, awards and where to watchMy pick for best supporting actress is Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The...
02  mars     09h11
This Is Spinal Tap at 40: the note-perfect rock satire still goes up to 11
Charles Bramesco    Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner made a classic that ingeniously straddles the fine line between stupid and clever’The bands that come together organically, without the aid of want ads or tear off flyers stapled to telephone poles, are generally catalyzed by a mixture of chemistry,...
21  mars     13h02
M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes
Peter Bradshaw    Always good as either an antagonist or malign authority figure, Walsh best known as loathsome PI Visser in Blood Simple was a singular, brilliant iconM Emmet Walsh, American actor, dies at M Emmet Walsh was the outstanding Hollywood character actor who emerged in the American new wave, a...
11  mars     15h18
Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?
Lanre Bakare    This was the year that the Academy’s diversity standards were introduced yet some argue that only structural change will make the film industry truly inclusive Oscars : full list of winners Full report: Oppenheimer wins best pictureThis year’s Oscars will go down as the one where the...
07  mars     16h36
This will be Christopher Nolan’s night’: Peter Bradshaw makes his final Oscars 2024 predictions
Peter Bradshaw    Is Oppenheimer a lock across the board Does Barbie have any chance Our critic makes his final predictions and highlights who should have been nominatedOscars live updatesOscars : the full list of winners live updatesWith a terrible inevitability, this is set to be the Enheimer Oscars...
22  février     16h54
In LA, directors have clubbed together to save a landmark cinema. Why don’t Brits do the same?
Mark Cousins    In the US and Europe, a combination of figurehead film makers allied with community partners really seems to workOne of LA’s loveliest cinemas the huge, sentinel Village Theater in Westwood has been bought by Jason Reitman, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Lulu Wang, Chloé Zhao, Guillermo...
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Shove over, Russell Crowe. No action hero has suffered like Sylvester Stallone
Stuart Heritage    Earlier this week, Crowe said he kept shooting Robin Hood despite two broken legs. Now, Stallone has upped the ante with a horrific litany of bodily abuses. Who will share their medical notes next One repeated theme in director Edward Zwick’s very good new autobiography Hits, Flops, and Other...
18  février     21h00
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success
Peter Bradshaw    Nolan’s complex epic won best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actor but awards for The Zone of Interest, Poor Things and The Holdovers show they could still cause upsets on Oscar nightOppenheimer takes top BaftasRed carpet: peek a boo corsets and a feast of salmonBaftas...
08  février     11h06
Furious jumping: why Henry Cavill is wrong to be cross with sex scenes
Stuart Heritage    As Hollywood makes a return to full throttle love scenes, the actor has got hot under the collar about excessive screen intimacy. But films from Oppenheimer to Poor Things show how good it can beThis has been a banner year for the sex scene. Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers....
01  février     18h00
Ten years on from his death, Philip Seymour Hoffman still shines bright
Peter Bradshaw    From an Oscar winning performance in Capote to a masterly turn in Synecdoche, New York, the unique actor proved the standard bearer for characterisationRecently, I found my thoughts irritably returning, like a toe masochistically seeking out a tiny uncomfortable pebble in a shoe, to the...
23  janvier     16h51
It’s in pole position, but Oppenheimer may not have it all its own way on Oscars night
Peter Bradshaw    With nods, Christopher Nolan looks almost certain to win best director, but fiercely divided fanbases mean best picture could still produce a real surprise Oppenheimer eclipses Scorsese, Poor Things and Barbie Full list of nominations Continue reading...
22  janvier     21h20
Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman
Peter Bradshaw    The virtuoso Canadian helped craft much of postwar Hollywood cinema, directing Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Topol in Fiddler on the Roof and Cher in MoonstruckFor five extraordinary decades, Norman Jewison’s film making was the beating heart of Hollywood drama: he could do anything...
18  janvier     13h06
Baftas 2024: Oppenheimer’s passion and ambition stomps over the opposition once again
Peter Bradshaw    With nominations, Christopher Nolan’s movie looks to dominate awards season, though there’s still room for Emma Stone and Kendearing Ryan GoslingNews: Oppenheimer beats BarbieFull list of nominationsAs Samuel Goldwyn apocryphally remarked in : This A bomb it’s dynamite With Bafta...
16  janvier     14h24
Andrew Scott is right - it’s time to retire the phrase openly gay’ Ryan Gilbey
Ryan Gilbey    The actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shotsAndrew Scott is capable of many things but giving a dull interview seems not to be among them. Last year, he was splendidly decrying the...
24  mars     10h00
I’m kinder and more compassionate’: actor Greg Wise on men and grief
Tim Jonze    How the tragic death of his beloved sister, Clare, gave Greg Wise a new outlook on navigating the end of lifeStepping inside Greg Wise’s home on a wet and windy day, he bursts into host mode. A cappuccino is made, pastries are served and on noticing I’m a bit rain lashed a crackling fire is...
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I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys
Introduction by Ali Smith    How does it feel to risk trafficking and torture to seek a better life in a strange land Ahead of four films telling migrant stories, we hear from directors including Matteo Garrone and Milad Alami about tackling one of the most pressing issues of our timeThe telling of stories is an act of...
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I get into trouble’: Gillian Anderson on being brave, her resting face and much anticipated book of sexual fantasies
Eva Wiseman    Her uncanny portrayals of famous women have brought her legions of fans. Now, as she prepares to play Emily Maitlis in the pivotal Prince Andrew interview, the actor talks to Eva Wiseman about acting, soft drinks and side hustles’ I have a tendency to be cast as those types of women who have...
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Isabelle Huppert: I was never the woman behind the man... the only place I could take was the main place’
Sarah Crompton    As brings to London a minute monologue about Mary, Queen of Scots, the celebrated French actor talks about her extraordinary career, and why she’d love to make a film in the UK or play a Marvel villain. Below, Guy Lodge chooses her finest screen appearancesIsabelle Huppert is a force of nature...
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Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family
Thomas Harding    Her father was Rudolf Höss, the camp’s commandant. He was arrested by the Jewish great uncle of the writer Thomas Harding, to whom Brigitte gave this, her final interview and confessionIt was the morning of December , a week before Christmas. Across from me sat Brigitte, the daughter...
23  mars     09h30
Imogen Poots: I once asked a young woman if she had heard of Laura Marling. She replied: I am Laura Marling ’
Rosanna Greenstreet    The actor on wanting to revive video rental, looking forward to getting older, and getting hate for her hatsBorn in London, Imogen Poots, , was cast in the film V for Vendetta when she was in her teens. In , she played the daughter of porn baron Paul Raymond in The Look of Love and won best...
22  mars     07h06
William Shatner: Good science fiction is humanity, moved into a different milieu’
Charles Bramesco    Ahead of a new documentary, You Can Call Me Bill, the Star Trek icon shares his eternal interest in learning more about the worldCranked out to accommodate the recent boom in demand for fresh content to binge, too many celebrity profile documentaries are defaulting to the formulaic sameness of...
24  mars     08h00
Robot Dreams review - bittersweet buddy movie is one of the best animations in recent years
Wendy Ide    A lonely dog buys himself a robot companion and learns to see the world in a joyous new light in Spanish director Pablo Berger’s exquisite, Oscar nominated filmIt’s an almost entirely dialogue free animation, captured with pleasingly simple, almost naive D character design. The warm and disarming...
23  mars     08h00
Streaming: All of Us Strangers and the best films that revisit childhood
Guy Lodge    Andrew Haigh’s profoundly moving ghost story follows in a bittersweet line of dramas, from Only Yesterday to Aftersun, in which a character is transported back to their early yearsI tend to be wary of movies talked up as tear jerkers going into any film with an expected or prescribed emotional...