‘She will go down as one of the best’: the rise of Jessie Buckley
From talent shows to the big screen, the actor’s performance in Hamnet has made her a leading awards contender
Bafta 2026 film awards longlists hope to avoid #BaftasSoWhite diversity criticism
With strong showings for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and target hit for 50% female directors, criticism that has dogged the prizes in recent years may have been headed off
Forget Big Ben! Try Telford’s Frog Clock: why Hollywood should stop destroying the same old landmarks
As the Gerard Butler film Greenland 2 becomes one more addition to the list of action movies to tamper with the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty or Golden Gate bridge, isn’t it time they mixed it up a bit?
What is Marvel up to with its Avengers: Doomsday trailers?
Teaser reels for next December’s coming episode give no clues to the story, still less to how these old characters are returning via the multiverse
One awards battle after another: A-listers face off at this year’s Golden Globes
Big names from Leonardo DiCaprio to Timothée Chalamet are aiming for a win at Hollywood’s most important Oscars precursor
The Rip to The Ballad of Wallis Island: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star in an incredibly tense thriller about two narco cops who make a wild discovery, while Tim Key works his kooky charm in the heart-warming Britcom
‘I haven’t mellowed my violence’: Park Chan-wook on cultural dominance, the capitalist endgame and why we can’t beat AI
His brutal movies put Korean cinema on the map. Now the director of Oldboy is back with a blistering satire about a man driven to murder after redundancy
TV tonight: slow-burning hit Mystery Road prequel returns
Robyn Malcom (After The Party) joins Mark Coles Smith in season two of Origin. Plus: a huge quiz all about telly. Here’s what to watch this evening
Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup
Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Walters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot
People We Meet on Vacation review – Netflix travel romcom is a dull journey
Emily Henry’s hit book has been adapted into a glossily made yet charmless attempt to resurrect the friends-to-lovers formula
Primate review – pet chimp gone wild makes for giddy, gory good time
There’s a great deal of unpretentious B-movie fun to be had in this brief, brutal and slickly made creature feature
Béla Tarr’s furious quest for cinematic perfection made him my ideal, impossible mentor
The Son of Saul director recalls how getting his first job as assistant to the austere master was a hard but inspiring lesson in the most ambitious kind of movie-making
Greenland 2: Migration review – disaster sequel is disastrously self-serious
Gerard Butler returns to keep his family safe from post-apocalyptic chaos in a glum and misjudged follow-up to the superior 2020 adventure
Matt Damon’s best films – ranked!
Ahead of his reunion with Ben Affleck in thriller The Rip – as well as his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Imax epic The Odyssey – we run through the best work of one of Hollywood’s most reliable heroes
With Venezuela, Trump has achieved his dream of making his own 80s action movie
Given his rise during the ego joyride of the 1980s, it’s no shock that Trump’s foreign policy is to emulate that decade’s belligerent cinema