Want to scare a Hollywood star? Just set up a fundraiser in their name
More horrifying to a celebrity than any scandal is having the public believe they’re down on their luck. Just ask Mickey Rourke, says Emma Brockes
One Battle After Another and The Studio lead Actor awards nominations
Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic thriller and Apple’s comedy series lead nominations for the renamed Sag awards with an impressive showing for Sinners and Adolescence
Nick Reiner arraignment postponed to February after lawyer withdraws from case
Son of director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner will now be represented by public defender in murder case
Isiah Whitlock Jr obituary
Actor who played the venal Maryland state governor Clay Davis in the US crime drama The Wire
Chloé Zhao says ‘feminine consciousness’ incompatible with current Hollywood model
Responding to new reporting finding only nine of the directors behind 2025’s 100 top-grossing US films were women, Hamnet film-maker questions industry’s capacity for inclusivity
‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five-year-old Palestinian girl’s dying pleas
The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why she had to tell Hind’s tragic story
UK and Ireland cinema takings on post-pandemic high as A Minecraft Movie tops 2025 box office
Video game spinoff was the highest-grossing film of the year at £56.88m as the sector continued its recovery after Covid
‘This might be too hot to touch’: Gwyneth Paltrow says conscious uncoupling cost her a movie role
Actor thinks derisive response to her description of divorcing Chris Martin led to her being dropped from film
Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject ‘inadequate’ $108bn Paramount bid
Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison
Brigitte Bardot laid to rest in funeral ceremony broadcast across Saint-Tropez
Service attended by singers, animal rights activists and public figures including far-right leader Marine Le Pen
‘It was overwhelming’: Katie Leung on Harry Potter, sudden fame, insecurity – and starring in Bridgerton
As a teenager, the actor landed her first ever job in the blockbuster film series. The experience was fun – but also led to horrendous online abuse. Now she’s back, playing a tough and surprising matriarch in the Regency smash hit
What’s to like? Why you can hate Timothée Chalamet’s character and still love Marty Supreme
Chalamet’s nogoodnik ping-pong hustler character is the latest in cinema’s rich history of protagonists with shabby morals. So why the backlash?
Labyrinth review – Jim Henson and David Bowie make beguiling magic in charmingly eccentric 80s classic
Jennifer Connelly plays a teenager having whimsical Alice in Wonderland-ish adventures in this 1986 family fantasy
Back to the Past review – everybody’s still gun-fu fighting in time-travel sequel
Louis Koo is the modern-day cop still trapped in the Qin dynasty in this cinematic reprise of the hit 2001 Hong Kong TV series
With Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr became the vividly disquieting master of spiritual desolation
The Hungarian director’s films moved slowly like vast gothic aircraft carrier-sized ships across dark seas, giving audiences a feeling of drunkenness and hangover at the same time