Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin? It will always be one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens
Cinema’s great maximalist going full pumpkin-bomb pantomime in the 2002 film might have dragged it into an even more operatically deranged dimension
Miss You, Love You review – Allison Janney anchors affecting old-school grief drama
A talky, performance-driven two-hander manages to find specificity and spark in what could have felt like an overly familiar throwback
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain
Dead Man’s Wire to Propeller One-Way Night Coach: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
A desperate man takes a mortgage broker hostage in Gus Van Sant’s edgy fact-based thriller. Plus, John Travolta gets his family involved in a nostalgia-fest set in the golden age of air travel
Harpo speaks! New recordings reveal mute Marx brother chatting with audience
The comedy legend, who adopted his silent persona because of stage nerves, did occasionally address his audience, as revealed by a new archive release
The Breadwinner review – Nate Bargatze’s dated dad comedy loses us entirely
The comedian makes an unconvincing bid for movie stardom in a largely unfunny and old-fashioned feature-length sitcom episode
A girl’s best friend: Marilyn Monroe remembered by her closest confidants
Four days before what would have been her 100th birthday, Hollywood legends look back on their friendships with a woman who, underneath the studio sheen, was warm, supportive and empathetic
The 20 best corridors in film – ranked!
Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema
‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism
Wicked co-star said reactions to the incident, which included suggestions she was Grande’s ‘bodyguard’, reflect an insidious view of Black women
‘Impossible, exhausting, horrifying’: how a chilling supernatural play explains the terror of life in Iran
Hit Iranian horror Under the Shadow conjured scares from the aftermath of the 1979 revolution. With Tehran once again under siege, a new theatrical version makes that story feel more relevant than ever
‘Not many kids had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland
Fairyland is a bittersweet film about a girl brought up by her gay father in a blizzard of glitter and feather boas in 1970s San Francisco. Its makers discuss its resonance, its tragedies – and their own boho childhoods
AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red
I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence
‘Put an end to this war’: Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes new plea to Putin
After winning the Grand Prix at Cannes film festival, the exiled auteur sent a direct message to the Russian president urging him to stop the war
The great Australian nightmare: how the housing crisis inspired a wave of brutal – and funny – pop culture
Soaring prices, rental stress and intergenerational inequality are fuelling new films, books and plays, including Birthright and Kill Your Boomers
Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar