Sian Cain    Stephan Elliott says Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp are onboard’ and the sequel will be set partly in Australia but will also head overseasGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA sequel to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is in the works, director Stephan Elliott...

Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles    Actor and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger dismantle Zimmerman house designed by architect Craig EllwoodChris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid century modern home to make way for a...

Guy Lodge    Kevin Macdonald’s finely balanced portrait of the disgraced Dior designer, on Mubi from Friday, is the newest arrival on a catwalk of fashion industry movies, from Funny Face to ZoolanderFor those who bleat on about the iniquities of supposed cancel culture, the career of British fashion...

Ben Child    The pun packed, Arnie starring original that strayed wildly from Stephen King’s book is one trashy s sci fi romp that could actually benefit from a remakeWhy bother remaking much loved s and s science fiction movies Frankly it never ends well. Len Wiseman’s reworking of Total Recall,...

Catherine Shoard    The Oscar winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread amp; Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they warn that the west ignores its message at their peril Strong women are not easy women, says Jennifer Lawrence, and a woman’s life...

Jesse Hassenger    The divisive director’s sci fi follow up is both original and derivative and will be unlikely to convert anyone, but there’s something charming about its sincerityIs there a contemporary Hollywood film maker who better epitomizes the modern commerce v art quagmire than Zack Snyder Snyder has an...

Peter Bradshaw    Luca Guadagnino’s terrifically absorbing screwball dramedy features a devastatingly cool leading lady, Josh O’Connor on rallying form and zinging extended dialogue rallies to matchIt’s almost too good to be true. Could cinema be witnessing the birth of a stunning new mixed doubles partnership ...

Peter Bradshaw    Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy kidnapped by papal authorities, this is a full tilt melodrama that lays bare tyranny, bigotry and the abuse of power in the Catholic churchItalian director Marco Bellocchio, at the age of and almost years after he first came to prominence with...

Luke Buckmaster    Heartfelt adventure film about a young girl overcoming her fears has half baked environmental messages and mistakes colour for creativityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailScarygirl is one of those animated productions so loaded with colour and bling, so lit up like a pinball machine, that...

Adrian Horton in Park City, Utah    A provocative comedy, imagining a Harry Potter esque academy poking fun at a well worn stereotype, has its momentsMake no mistake: The American Society of Magical Negroes, the debut film from the writer director Kobi Libii, is trying to be provocative. It’s openly prodding the idea of comfort in...

Peter Bradshaw    Jeymes Samuel’s wacky counter gospel action adventure delivers some good turns but drifts into pietyOnce Upon a Time in Judea is the setting for this watchable new comedy at the London film festival from film maker and musician Jeymes Samuel, that talented and prolific multihyphenate who just two...

Peter Bradshaw    Louis XV’s infatuation with a sexy, smart courtesan played by Maïwenn who also writes and directs is a preposterous confection with preening Depp’s king overshadowing her storyThe rosebud lips of Johnny Depp in this film are pursed in a strange expression of irony, stupefied entitlement and...

Peter Bradshaw    Thomas Pickering blends approachable narration with well presented information in a welcome reminder of the Michael Moore methodHere is an ebullient, confident campaign documentary from Thomas Pickering, the kind of punchy and straightforward film making that we used to see all the time in the s...

Cath Clarke    Anodyne children’s picture provides some gentle entertainment once you forgive the cloying anthropomorphism Is that a butterfly fairy asks a confused seven year old who watches with me, pointing to the screen at the start of this Canadian animated tale. Nope. The purple creature with a humanish...

Benjamin Lee    There’s some low stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrouslyLast year’s handsome gothic horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter and bombastic Nic Cage comedy Renfield allowed Universal the opportunity...

Leslie Felperin    When Victoria Villegas learned how her cousin had fled the Dominican Republic, and was gay like her, she was moved to chart his lifeThere have been experimental, freestyling essay films and memoiristic documentaries around for years, going back to Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil or Agnès Varda’s The...

Phuong Le    Vidya Balan shines in this witty remake that sees a married couple, both cheating on each other, on the verge of breaking upThe algebra of love is a multiple choice conundrum in Shirsha Guha Thakurta’s debut, a witty remake of Azazel Jacobs’ romance The Lovers starring Debra Winger. Transporting...

Peter Bradshaw    Zany caper follows Jo Hartley as a big veg enthusiast defending her patch from elaborate ill doingsChaos reigns in this strange, funny and amiably anarchic mockumentary about dirty tricks in the cutthroat world of competitive marrow growing, written and co directed by film maker Brook Driver. Maybe...

Andrew Pulver    The director is planning to return to his long delayed project with Jennifer Lawrence co starring as Ava Gardner but rights may prove a stumbling blockMartin Scorsese is reportedly reviving his dormant Frank Sinatra biopic, with regular collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role.According to...

Lanre Bakare    Harry Potter star described wife, who founded dwarfism charity Little People UK, as greatest love of his life’Samantha Davis, the campaigner and wife of the Harry Potter star Warwick Davis, whom he called his soul mate, has died aged .Davis, who founded Little People UK the dwarfism...

Sian Cain    The year old director, who says he will retire after his th film, has abandoned The Movie Critic, according to industry reportsQuentin Tarantino has reportedly abandoned his plans for The Movie Critic, the film that was to be his th and final project.Deadline reported on Thursday that an...

Andrew Pulver    Featuring stars including Riz Ahmed and Nabhaan Rizwan, the event aims to celebrate the rich tapestry of Muslim experiences via the medium of film’A major new UK film festival dedicated to Muslim cinema announced its inaugural lineup on Tuesday, with a slew of award winning films featuring the...

Peter Bradshaw    Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame ... we pick out her greatest rolesAn early Shirley in this epic Technicolor comedy adventure based on Jules Verne, overstuffed with superstar cameos and produced by the impresario Mike Todd. David Niven sauntered through the role of...

Shaad D'Souza    If you really want to know about making music, fame, exploitation, addiction, egos and challenging personalities look to fiction. Here are our favourites Making a movie about an iconic musician can be perilous there are so many stakeholders with differing versions of events, and so many diehard...

Scott Tobias    The suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our livesIn the years since Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation was released in theaters, the evolution of technology and the devolution of political culture have combined to make it...

Peter Bradshaw    Lovers, fighters ... and gangsters On the centenary of the actor’s birth, we pick out his greatest rolesA minor picture with curiosity value: Charlie Chaplin’s final film as a director, starring Brando and Sophia Loren, a comedy in the style of the Hollywood Golden Age, based on the tall tales of...

Interviews by Ben Gilbert    I had no interest in teen vampire films and turned it down five times. But Joel Schumacher promised I wouldn’t have to wear the makeup and teeth, or have to fly around. Of course, he lied’Joel Schumacher, the director, wanted me in the movie right from the first time we met. But the script I read...

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 ,...

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...

Charles Bramesco    Alex Garland’s speculative and apolitical action film might be a box office hit but it’s a frustratingly weightless experienceThe music video for MIA’s Born Free imagines a ginger genocide, with humvees of jackbooted, gas masked stormtroopers raiding a high rise housing complex to round up redheads...

Peter Bradshaw    Female directors are thin on the ground plus ça change but the lineup promises intriguing new films from modern day masters, as well as some unknown hot potatoes Donald Trump biopic and new films by Yorgos Lanthimos and Andrea Arnold to premiere at CannesThe new Cannes selection has been...

Stuart Heritage    For every Wall Street or Wild at Heart there are countless cringeworthy examples of Hollywood power players elbowing their own kids into the picture. Adam Sandler alone has made two dozen with hisIf the dismal reviews meted out to the new film Bleeding Love prove anything at all, it’s that parents...

Peter Bradshaw    Patricia Highsmith’s charming devil has fascinated film makers since the s, but his brand of evil seems peculiarly well suited to the Instagram ageHe’s back. But he never went away. Patricia Highsmith’s diabolically inspired postwar creation Tom Ripley has returned, to luxuriate in our st...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Ann Lee    How do you survive when the two most important men in your life die at a tragically young age The daughter of martial arts hero Bruce Lee describes what kept her going and how she is preserving the family legacyShannon Lee is cheerfully recounting the time she went to a darkness retreat in...

Sam Moore    Being cast as a scheming toff in the global phenomenon Bridgerton was a surprise for Claudia Jessie. Fiercely proud of her roots, the Brummie talks about etiquette lessons, getting too many tattoos and why working class actors so often get a rough dealThe actor Claudia Jessie greets everyone ...

Elissa Blake    Thirty years after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert thrust him on to the international stage, the actor discusses tiring of Hollywood villains and his most challenging role yetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailHugo Weaving is striding down Wharf in Sydney’s Walsh Bay where the wind is...

Catherine Shoard    As his new film looks at society’s relationship with the camera, the double Palme d’Or winner talks about the power of the screen big and small and why the next generation will be Marxist I have an idea, says Ruben Östlund. What if you were only allowed to use a camera if you have a licence...

As told to Rich Pelley    The actor, musician and all round subversive talks about getting his own back on critic AA Gill, his favourite football song and why he’d really like a part that involves lying downYou’ve performed naked on stage with Max Bygraves, bared all in Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave and posed nude for the BBC...

Ann Lee    She is one of the first east Asian actors to play the lead in a big British drama, and her new show Red Eye is a nerve jangler. She discusses culture shock, sexism and the sheer joy of making Crazy Rich AsiansAs a teenager, Jing Lusi was something of a wild child. She was smoking and drinking by...

Ben Beaumont-Thomas    Her score for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s opus helped it to Oscar glory. Now the Japanese musician has reunited with its director for a collaboration unlike any otherWhether it’s Hitchcock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams or latterly Villeneuve and Zimmer, film directors often get into a glorious...

Wendy Ide    The British writer director’s searing drama of reporters in the line of fire strips away political context to focus on the terrible, self perpetuating nature of warA near future US has turned its anger against itself; a new civil war is raging. As tracer fire whiplashes across the sky and the...

Mark Kermode    From gritty banlieue drama Girlhood to period piece Portrait of a Lady on Fire and animation My Life As a Courgette, the French director’s films never fail to connect eloquently with us Does French film maker Céline Sciamma ever put a foot wrong That’s a question I posed in my Observer...