- Guardian Unlimited Film

The Mexican actor and director has persuaded experts to join him on a new TV show to talk, eat and, hopefully, examine their own beliefs and prejudices“Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt.” This cynical observation about the docility of the population in the face of […]

Star of first film will also executive produce follow-up to hit summer romance movie, with Jonathan Levine directingAn official sequel to the hit summer romance movie Dirty Dancing has been announced, 33 years after the first film was released.Jennifer Grey, who starred in the original as Frances […]

Eva Riley’s debut feature is a dazzling coming-of-age tale lit up by a pair of remarkable first-time performancesNot quite a perfect 10. But still, Scottish director Eva Riley smashes it with her debut feature, a gritty and tender portrait of a teenage gymnast who meets her half-brother for […]

A predictable yet breezily entertaining and well-acted high school comedy sees a ragtag dance crew aiming for the topThere’s an easy sleepover movie charm to Netflix comedy Work It, a charm that’s proved harder to find in their many other teen offerings of late. It’s a familiar […]

As Disney puts its Mulan remake straight to the small screen, cinemas need to prove to audiences they’re safe. Our writers braved screenings from Beijing to Belfast to try and find out Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAre you sitting comfortably? After a month […]

Lilly Wachowski expresses pleasure that the film’s ‘original intention’ has become commonplace understanding among fansLilly Wachowski, who co-directed the Matrix films with her sister, Lana, has confirmed that they should be read as allegories for the transgender narrative. […]

On the 70th anniversary of Sunset Boulevard, in which Gloria Swanson plays terrifying silver screen star Norma Desmond, we look at the greatest interpretations of actresses by actressesA classic role of elegant, sophisticated malice and brazen wrongdoing for Marlene Dietrich as Charlotte Inwood, a […]

The anthropomorphic animals from 2016 are back despite public demand in a well-meaning but tame family film A hair of the dog that no one ordered, here’s a sequel to the ropey Russian family animation Sheep and Wolves, in which predator and prey learned to live together in happy-clappy […]

Hollywood believes streaming could be the way to reclaim dollars lost because of closed cinemas – but will audiences really pay such a premium for a stay-at-home experience?And so it begins ... One of the immutable facts of pre-Covid-19 Hollywood was that a big studio allowing a film to debut […]

A study from Pen America warns of the long-term effects of studios censoring content to appease the Chinese governmentA new report has found that the Chinese government’s influence on Hollywood is posing a serious threat to free expression.The 94-page study, from the literary and human rights […]

From a quenelle salute to World Cup controversy, the brilliant short-fuse striker comes with baggage, and this film does a fair job with some fraught materialA galaxy of major names – including Thierry Henry, Arsène Wenger and Didier Drogba – line up to chip in their […]

A fashion student kicks back against misogyny and religious extremism in Mounia Meddour’s ambitious directorial debut The title is Algerian slang for “cool girl” or “rebel girl” and Algerian film-maker Mounia Meddour brings a lot of empowering energy to this […]

Raised by a ‘hustler’, always worried the acting work might dry up, Crudup is now riding high in Apple TV’s hit The Morning Show. He talks about childhood, coronavirus and #MeTooA few years ago, when he was still a couple of years off his 50th birthday, Billy Crudup liked to […]

Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seenOn its release in August 1950, Sunset Boulevard punched its own industry in the face. Showbiz royalty, normally enclosed in an echo chamber of self-congratulation, […]

Rogen plays a pickle-factory worker accidentally preserved for 100 years – and the hipster great-grandson he shacks up with in 21st-century BrooklynSimon Rich is the New Yorker humorist and Pixar writer whose short stories are as addictive as crack. One of these, Sell Out, from his 2014 […]

Composer of hit musical says director Tom Hooper didn’t consult those involved in the original show when making his widely panned film adaptationAndrew Lloyd Webber has taken a belated scratch to Tom Hooper’s much-maligned adaptation of his stage musical, Cats. In an interview with the […]

The much-loved star of Mystic Pizza, Say Anything and I Shot Andy Warhol discusses acting, alcoholism, friendship and the SCUM manifestoLili Taylor is one of those rare actors who makes whatever project she is in feel classier, no matter how small her part. (The few other actors who manage that, […]

Not content with being the world’s most celebrated pop star, Beyoncé is emerging as a major figure in cinema tooBack in 2002, 20-year-old Beyoncé was appearing as Austin Powers’s love interest in Goldmember. She’s come some way since. In fact, as her visual album […]

The gloves and training wheels come off as a group of smart, poignantly naive and utterly insufferable Texas boys get together to simulate governmentIt’s not clear to me if this is a heartwarming study in young people’s idealism or a Lord of the Flies bloodbath with smug feral demons in […]

The writer and ‘romcomoisseur’ on her debut short story collection, romcom chemistry, and her clinch with Michael B JordanBorn and based in London, Bolu Babalola, 29, is a self-proclaimed “romcomoisseur” and writer. She worked as an assistant producer at BBC Comedy and was […]

The British actor excels as a crotchety loner who takes in a child evacuee in Jessica Swale’s uplifting debut featureWhat a lovely, hopeful and rather magical movie this is. The feature debut from writer/director Jessica Swale, whose impressive theatre CV includes the Olivier award-winner […]

From a boy’s own government to a gay man’s road trip with his niece, a mini-feast of film captures the Utah festival’s progressive spiritIn a year that has seen the usually crammed film festival circuit thrown into disarray by coronavirus, January’s Sundance film festival […]

BAME nominees take giant strides at awards as Glenda Jackson wins a first gong aged 84 “No one’s stronger than an artist in a crisis”: so sang Tim Minchin in a satirical number to open the 2020 Bafta television awards, which took place on Friday following a 10-week delay due to […]

He’s written songs with everyone from Quincy Jones to John Barry – though his musical about premature ejaculation was a flop. ‘Everyone’s the same when they sit at the piano,’ he revealsFor a man who recently suffered from coronavirus and had a lengthy stay in […]

Producers welcome scheme offering support if productions incur losses due to Covid-19Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA £500m scheme to jumpstart the UK’s battered film and television industries has been welcomed by producers.On Tuesday, the culture […]

The Gone With the Wind star, known for her lifelong feud with her sister as much as the bewitching brilliance of her acting, and the last link to Hollywood’s golden ageOlivia de Havilland established herself for ever in the film world’s collective memory at the age of 22, as the wise, […]

From teen movies to westerns to horror, the American actor, who has died aged 83, appeared in almost 200 movies during a career that spanned seven decades Continue reading...

Glenda Jackson doesn’t much like going out, but to save the UK’s arts industry, the actor, former MP and slightly terrifying national treasure will consider it…“Don’t be ridiculous,” barks Glenda Jackson down the phone. “Are you kidding me?”Oh dear. […]

From climate change and Black Lives Matter to Tiger King and Taylor Swift, these are the factual films that best capture and explain what’s going on around us Director: Lisa Bryant Netflix Continue reading...

The actor, 43, on authenticity, curiosity, cynicism and the meaning of his Nigerian nameMy name means “God brings” in Igbo. I don’t think about it much, but I enjoy that tradition. When we made Half of a Yellow Sun, the entire cast and crew, who were mostly Nigerian, stood […]

The director’s stylish Psycho homage remains a thrill yet continues to face accusations of misogyny and transphobiaThe distance between Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill and its source of inspiration, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, is 20 years. The distance between Dressed to Kill and […]

The rubber-faced funnyman made Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber in the same year. But as he prepares to publish his memoirs, we ask: was that as good as it got?By and large, Jim Carrey either makes good films or very, very bad films. The latter includes mush such as The Majestic, comedic […]

Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski may be about to remake the Dutch director’s incisive satire. Has the forgettable Total Recall reboot taught him nothing?Rumours of a remake of Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 incisive satire of American fascism, have abounded for the best […]

My exposé of the impact of Trump’s golf courses in Scotland has been suppressed with legal threats … until nowHere in Britain we like to think our journalism is free from control by those with power and money. Sadly that’s not always the case. I have spent years trying to […]

After starting out with romantic-interest characters, Preston evolved into a smart, subversive performer – most notably in the hit romcom Jerry MaguireIn some ways, Kelly Preston’s most famous role was the one outside the movies: as John Travolta’s wife. They married in 1991 and […]

Patrick Swayze’s unusual star appeal helped make the supernatural romance the biggest hit of 1990 despite being resolutely unhipAmerican cinema has never had a star quite like Patrick Swayze, who now seems like a bridge between eras, redefining masculinity after an 80s dominated by […]

Netflix’s glossy comic book adaptation The Old Guard might be led by Charlize Theron, but it’s the love story between two men that draws attentionPop quiz: name the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster released in the last decade that featured blink-and-you’ll-miss-it LGBT […]

Freedom, nihilism, countercultural subversion: let these cinematic road trips transport you somewhere far, far awayModern Toss on road trip movies ... The freedom of the open road, far from social, moral and economic strictures, is at the heart of the road movie, a theme it borrowed from the […]

As her new film hits Netflix, here’s a run down of the actor’s greatest performances, from sci-fi action and comedy to the portrayal of a serial killer Continue reading...

With four-letter words and violence by the bucketload, Guy Ritchie’s gangster flick had everything a 12-year-old boy could want – and it still doesRead all the other My favourite film choicesWhen I was 12, all that mattered was the certificate. That little coloured shape in the bottom […]

With his brilliant, haunting scores for Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and dozens more, Morricone was the master of film musicThe film industry has its elite squad of composers who can produce a complete orchestral score at the request of a director – and if necessary conduct it too – […]

Will Ferrell’s spoof can’t get a handle on camp and misses a vital point: Eurovision already does a fine job making fun of itselfThe terrible sadness at the heart of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is that the film just doesn’t get Eurovision. Almost all other […]

The tirelessly joke-packed 1980 film might have dated in some ways but its relentless desire to amuse still makes it an undeniable winnerEven in the anarchic heyday of the Marx brothers at Paramount Pictures, when they turned out vaudevillian free-for-alls such as Horse Feathers and Duck Soup, or […]

Still, stiff-legged, sat-upon … chairs set a bad, undynamic example, which is why the movie director won’t let his actors near oneWe still don’t know all that much about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Tenet. We know the stars, and that things appear to go backwards in it, but […]

LA weather reports, office DIY projects, nature notes … they’re all there in the film director’s daily video blogs about California life, a sunny blessing in lockdownOur morning routines have changed. More energetic types may have been bouncing out of bed for a virtual PE lesson, […]

Bare-chested fist-fights, loud guitar riffs, a billowing American flag and Malkovich turned up to 11. This is a cheese-filled treatSee the other classic missed films in this seriesThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationI was prepared to like Con Air and, happily, I was not […]

Kurosawa’s ‘uplifting’ film about poverty and Chernobyl are on the viewing roster of the Avenue 5 creator, who calls on the UK government to prioritise the arts sectorI’m at home with my wife, children and dogs. We’ve drifted into a communal understanding of watching […]

Embracing streaming was a step in the right direction, but the calendar shift has given distributors an extra two months to get their big-ticket releases into cinemasThe most recent Academy Awards ceremony took place on 9 February, the earliest date in the institution’s 92-year history, as a […]

His Hyde Park speech is a teachable moment in the history of race, racism and celebrity. He’s part of a vigorous, distinguished traditionJohn Boyega’s rousing Black Lives Matter speech wins praise and supportAlready, the sneery backlash has begun – as so much Trumpism is founded […]

Until the government agrees to underwrite the insurance risk of Covid-19 the new rules will do nothing for homegrown productionsThe news that Covid-19 safety guidance has been approved for the UK’s film and television industry is very welcome. But it is by no means the end of the story.Anyone […]