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  • Morgan Spurlock at the Los Angeles premiere of his Super Size Me in 2004

    Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw
    In an era before social media, the impact of his wacky but issue-based fast-food documentary made a real impact on how the world eats
  • Woman wearing a blindfold and holding a piece of paper in the air.

    Cannes 2024
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig review – Mohammad Rasoulof’s arresting tale of violence and paranoia in Iran

  • Harry Hill in a shirt and suit jacket with his hand on his head

    Post your questions for Harry Hill

  • Nasty - More Than Just Tennis.

    ‘I paid for it’: tennis bad boy Ilie Năstase revisits confrontational career

  • Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos waving on the red carpet at a film premire at Cannes

    The most political apolitical festival ever? Here’s how Cannes 2024 went – and who will win

  • Chris Pine, Paul Wesley and William Shatner as Star Trek character Captain Kirk

    Shatner, Pine, or a Kirk triple whammy: where should Star Trek boldly go next?

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  • Adria Arjona as Madison Masters and Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in a scene from Hit Man

    Hit Man review – Richard Linklater’s thoroughly entertaining fake-killer caper

  • Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga.

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes

  • Slow, Dir: Marija Kavtaradze Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Slow review – intimate portrait of asexual romance unfolds at unhurried pace

  • In Flames.

    In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair

  • Atlas review – Jennifer Lopez learns to love AI in silly Netflix mockbuster

  • The Beach Boys review – rather too sunny account of 60s pop legends’ story

  • Trainspotting review – Danny Boyle's classic holds up terrifically well

  • The Boy in the Woods review – boys’ own tale of Holocaust fugitive forced to fend for himself

  • What Remains on the Way review – startling insight into the struggles of US border migrants

  • Raphael: A Portrait review – lengthy but illuminating study of Renaissance master

  • Pandemonium review – wintry gloom as ghost of dead driver meets the biker he killed

  • William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill review – captain’s log is short on detail

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  • Morgan Spurlock pictured in 2013

    Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock dies aged 53

  • The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, London.

    Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resign as patrons of London cinema over Israeli film festival screening

  • Hands hold papers with drawing of man

    Authorized big-screen biopic of George Floyd in the works

  • John Travolta mid-dance in Saturday Night Fever

    Saturday Night Fever dancefloor to be auctioned with $300,000 estimate

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What to watch

  • Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950)

    The greatest dancer of all time? Fred Astaire’s 20 best films – ranked!

  • This year’s Sydney film festival lineup includes, clockwise from top left, The Outrun, Explanation for Everything, Kinds of Kindness and Sasquatch Sunset

    From mythic creatures to innovative documentaries: 10 films to see at Sydney film festival 2024

    The 5-16 June program includes Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest Kinds of Kindness, and a hairy family in Sasquatch Sunset
  • 1968, PLANET OF THE APES<br>CHARLTON HESTON &amp; KIM HUNTER Film 'PLANET OF THE APES' (1968) Directed By FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER 08 February 1968 CTH27987 Allstar/Cinetext/20TH CENTURY FOX **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only

    Go ape! Killer simians in cinema – ranked!

    As Kong continues to terrorise us in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we rate some chilling chimps
  • Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own (1992), Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Hoop Dreams (1994), Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006).

    Game, set and match: the 20 best sports movies

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1649933a) Woman Times Seven, Shirley Maclaine Film and Television

    Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!

  • Very Spinal Tap … This Is Spinal Tap (1984).

    Forget Back to Black. Here are eight great fake music biopics

  • black and white film still of man handing something to another man in an office

    The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece

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  • Stuart Heritage

    Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage
  • Corman at Cannes in 2011.

    Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw
  • a young man and woman sit across from each other at a table, eating food

    Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

    Mike McCahill
  • 1988, BEETLEJUICE<br>MICHAEL KEATON Character(s): Beetlejuice Film 'BEETLEJUICE' (1988) Directed By TIM BURTON 29 March 1988 SSB5103 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (USA 1988) / Titel auch: "Lottergeist Beetlejuice" **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw
  • High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Anne Hathaway is a secret Arsenal fan and now her reinvention is complete

    Stuart Heritage
  • Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco
  • Coppola, Lanthimos, Sorrentino: Cannes’ silverback gorillas shall slug it out at this year’s festival

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment

    Stuart Heritage
  • Best of frenemies: why Tom Ripley is a psychopath made for social media

    Peter Bradshaw
  • M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?

    Lanre Bakare
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  • Bruce Joel Rubin holding an umbrella with pictures of birds and grassland on it.

    ‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’: Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish

  • Jane Asher with her specially commissioned cake to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday in 2014

    Jane Asher: ‘Would I do another nude scene? Never say never!’

    The actor on night terrors, Brideshead Revisited, nearly becoming a doctor and Starbucks in Cobham
  • George MacKay.

    ‘I identified with those worries’: George MacKay on masculinity, misogyny and playing an incel

    After breaking out as a wide-eyed soldier in 1917, the actor showed a darker side to masculinity as a closeted thug in Femme. Now he’s gone further, playing an incel in twisted sci-fi The Beast
  • Harmony Korine at his Aggressive Dr1fter Part II art show at Hauser & Wirth, London.

    ‘I burned out – and started mowing lawns’: a reality-bending chat with Harmony Korine

  • Stephen Merchant shot for OM

    ‘It’s all been preposterous’: Stephen Merchant on fame, standup and the pressures of cancel culture

  • Actor Tom Burke photographed at the Guardian offices, March 2024. First use film &amp; music

    ‘I did a lot of yelling’: Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max

  • Slow, Dir: Marija Kavtaradze Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Slow: the Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’

Regulars

  • Cailey Fleming in IF

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    IF review – imaginary friends reunited in a kid-pleasing live-action fantasy

  • Dev Patel in Monkey Man, Isabelle Huppert in Elle, and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Monkey Man and the best revenge movies

  • Chris Pine, Paul Wesley and William Shatner as Star Trek character Captain Kirk

    Week in geek
    Shatner, Pine, or a Kirk triple whammy: where should Star Trek boldly go next?

  • Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox and Christopher Eccleston in Shallow Grave (1994).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture

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You may have missed

  • side by side images of men in suits, one younger, one older

    ‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics

  • Mesmerising and mystifying … Scénarios, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

    Breathless goodbye: the race to finish Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, one day before he died

    The cinematic legend died the way he lived – in a blaze of inscrutable, impossible film-making. We meet the team who helped shoot the final scene of his swansong just before his death by assisted suicide
  • 1994, THE CROW<br>BRANDON LEE Character(s): Eric Draven Film 'THE CROW' (1994) Directed By ALEX PROYAS 11 May 1994 CTK34815 Allstar/BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL (USA 1994) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    ‘It was a horrific night’: 30 years on from the on-set death of Brandon Lee

    The actor was killed in a freak accident on the set of The Crow, a tragedy that still haunts those who worked alongside
  • This image released by 20th Century Studios shows Noa, played by Owen Teague, in a scene from "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes." (20th Century Studios via AP)

    Hanging around: how Planet of the Apes became Hollywood’s most resilient franchise

  • Rocky Taylor - stuntman

    Risk and reward: life as a stunt double

  • Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt at a screening for The Fall Guy in London.

    Blunt, stunts and Gosling: how did The Fall Guy flop – and what does that mean for cinema?

  • Anger-esque … still from Tarot, 1973, by Derek Jarman.

    Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes: Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films

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Film genres

  • close-up of woman look scared

    Action
    Atlas review – Jennifer Lopez learns to love AI in silly Netflix mockbuster

  • This image released by Sony Pictures shows Garfield, voiced by Chris Pratt, in a scene from the animated film "The Garfield Movie." (Columbia Pictures/Sony via AP)

    Animation
    The Garfield Movie review – foul feline origin tale is littered with product placement

  • Adria Arjona as Madison Masters and Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in a scene from Hit Man

    Crime
    Hit Man review – Richard Linklater’s thoroughly entertaining fake-killer caper

  • Film Still: All We Imagine As Light. Directed By Payal Kapadia

    Drama
    All We Imagine As Light review – dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph

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