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12  june     06h00
Diane Keaton’s nail clippers for 960: what’s behind the new boom in celebrity estate auctions?
Rupert Neate    With beloved stars’ personal items increasingly up for grabs after they die, a new generation of fans are bidding on everything from bowler hats to...
11  june     14h47
I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films - ranked
Ryan Gilbey    As she nears her 72nd birthday, we honour the actor whose smoked honey’ vocals added to her vampy persona on screen, whether bringing Jessica Rabbit...
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Helen Mirren speaks out about being called evil Zionist’ on the street in London
Andrew Pulver    Responding to an incident in which she was verbally abused, the actor said that evil forces are rising everywhere’, as well as expressing support for...
    11h30
This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
As told to Catherine Shoard    Pixar’s new film tells young viewers that technology has stolen their childhood and that parents need to wise up fast. Its stars answer your...
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Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond - twice
Andrew Pulver    Film-maker says he approached producer Cubby’ Broccoli after Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind were hits, but was knocked back both...
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Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
Paul Gannon    Ten years ago, the Ghostbusters reboot was released into a firestorm of rage and revulsion. What did the onslaught show us about film, fandom - and...
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Stop That Train review - RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
Owen Myers    With a whip-smart drag queen cast and celebrity cameos, Adam Shankman’s film is a refreshingly kooky twist on the summer movie caperGiven the grip it...
09  june     16h00
Disclosure Day review - close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
Peter Bradshaw    Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a...
02  february     15h24
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford review - Peter Mullan gives weight to quirky Scottish dramedy
Peter Bradshaw    The formidable Mullan delivers a tender performance in Sean Robert Dunn’s first feature, playing a cranky local historian obsessed with his obscure,...
10  june     06h00
Boogie Nights review - Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun
Peter Bradshaw    The writer-director’s second movie lacks some of the craft shown in his later work, but remains a stylish and energetic descent into the cocaine...
09  june     10h00
Signal One review - Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
Cath Clarke    Sci-fi about the inventor of a device to communicate with aliens, in which scientists spend too much time talking astrophysics at each otherSteven...
11  june     08h00
Strictly Ballroom review - Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
Peter Bradshaw    Luhrmann’s goofy and lovable film is reissued for generations who don’t know where TV’s Strictly Come Dancing got part of its nameGenerations who don...
09  june     08h00
Pink Narcissus review - garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
Peter Bradshaw    James Bidgood’s experimental DIY movie, first released in 1971, starred Bobby Kendall and was shot mostly in Bidgood’s own apartmentJames Bidgood’s...
16  may     14h46
The Little Sister review - a discerning drama of queer Muslim coming-of-age
Peter Bradshaw in Cannes    Hafsia Herzi’s film manages sexuality with confidence, featuring an affecting lead performance from newcomer Nadia MellitiActor turned director...
08  june     08h00
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway review - motorbike whodunnit cranked up to top speed
Phil Hoad    The half-pint sleuth investigates another mystery with the franchise’s usual gorgeous cityscapes, sharply sketched characters and general brioComing...
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A Murder Between Friends review - Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit
Leslie Felperin    Hot tubs and high camp as a TV star dripping in rhinestones tries to solve a real-life crime in this fabulously flawed murder mystery. Who cares who...
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My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review - deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs
Phuong Le    Anas Zawahri’s documentary lays heart-wrenching testimony over languorous shots of bullet-ridden ruins and deserted streetsThe western Syrian city of...
11  june     02h44
Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
Emma Joyce    Australian film-maker behind Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli celebrated for defining country’s culture and global influence on craft, form and...
10  june     18h00
Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
Benjamin Lee    The actor and director who have long been snubbed will finally take home Oscars at November’s Governors awardsGlenn Close and Ridley Scott are among...
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First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
Benjamin Lee    Oscar winner Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong to star in film focused on fallout from whistleblower Frances HaugenThe first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s...
08  june     11h27
Idris Elba says audiences would never accept a black actor playing James Bond: That’s not what they like in their culture’
Catherine Shoard    The star of Luther played down rumours that he was lined up to take over as 007, adding that he’s against making the character woke’Idris Elba has...
10  june     10h00
Peter Asher on being music’s incredible Everywhere Man’: The secret is simple’
Jim Farber    As the musician and producer reaches 82, a new documentary reveals his life working with everyone from James Taylor to Carole King to Paul...
09  june     14h47
rdquo; We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged': the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
Shaad D'Souza    What will life be like in 2034? Will kids surf in quarries - or live in the woods since they think Earth is hollow? We meet the film-maker behind...
08  june     04h00
My life is about beauty’: Julie Newmar at 92 on shocking the world as Catwoman - and caring for her son
Steve Rose    She starred in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, had to stoop when she danced with Fred Astaire, then became world-famous - and a gay icon - in the...
05  june     07h00
Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation
Cath Clarke    The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain...
10  june     09h00
The best films of 2026 so far
Guardian film    Jessie Buckley is dug up to marry Christian Bale, while Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are the double act of the year in Steven Soderbergh’s dark...
08  june     14h02
Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom
Interviews by Ryan Gilbey    A big dude came up to me and said, My wife dragged me kicking and screaming to see your movie - and it was the best thing she’s ever done ’Baz...
07  june     09h00
The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: pure popcorn perfection’
Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw, Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey, Simran Hans, Stuart Heritage, Ann Lee, Joseph McBride, Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford, Andrew Pulver, Scott Tobias and Edgar Wright    From franchise hits to historical epics, joyous musicals to autobiographical family sagas: Steven Spielberg has done it all. As his latest sci-fi...
03  june     09h32
What the Hellenic Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks?
Chris Cotonou    Set to be this year’s biggest blockbuster, The Odyssey’s cast has been selected to represent the world’. Fair enough - except that one key country...
23  may     22h39
Cannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord
Peter Bradshaw    Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab...
05  may     09h00
Is Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2? Louis Staples
Louis Staples    The film’s villain is a conniving tech oligarch seeking to buy his way into fashion’s inner circle. Sound familiar?In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re...
27  april     12h53
Michael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy Jesse Hassenger
Jesse Hassenger    The hit success of the critically reviled Michael Jackson movie shows that his fans only want to see the good - not the truthIt’s not unusual to see...
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