Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
The actor and director who have long been snubbed will finally take home Oscars at November’s Governors awards
Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
Sarah Wynn-Williams remained silent during her hour-long appearance, but sales of Careless People have since increased by more than 300%
How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
The popular satire’s humour resonates with an uncomfortable ring of truth
First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
Oscar winner Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong to star in film focused on fallout from whistleblower Frances Haugen
Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
Carmen Nasr’s adaptation of the film set during the Iran-Iraq war is searing enough to feel like a 2026 livestream
From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
There’s just one day to go till it all kicks off in Canada, Mexico and the US. Here’s the best TV and film to get you into the mood for the biggest football tournament in history
‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
Director Mary Harron on her audacious ‘anti-biopic’ of Scum Manifesto author Valerie Solanas, who shot Warhol in 1968
The best films of 2026 so far
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 comedy. Here’s our round up of movie magic from the last six months in the UK, in order of release
Boogie Nights review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun
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-fulled world of the 70s adult film industry
Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
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 never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster channelling UFO chat
‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
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 Gener8ion, whose dark predictions have a habit of going viral
‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
In an often chilling new documentary, the chefs of brutal leaders from Idi Amin to Saddam Hussein, talk about their unusual lives behind the scenes
Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
Sci-fi about the inventor of a device to communicate with aliens, in which scientists spend too much time talking astrophysics at each other
Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
James Bidgood’s experimental DIY movie, first released in 1971, starred Bobby Kendall and was shot mostly in Bidgood’s own apartment
French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
Two new rape complaints have been filed against the 67-year-old singer and actor, who denies the claims