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Darth Vader and the so-called classic 'Star Wars' characters have arrived at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. While many fans are cheering, I mourn the the version of the land that Imagineers sought to create.

This Warren Beatty thriller puts all the anxieties and tension of the 70s into a blender – and delivers a perfectly paranoid pulp mystery Watching Hollywood cinema in 2026 can make for a curious experience. Take a look out the window, and you’ll notice that the US, and indeed the world, is in a polycrisis – though you’d hardly know it from the films at the multiplex. The odd timely picture aside,…

Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers breakout, will play legendary chef in a 70s-set drama from BlackBerry’s director The first trailer for the Anthony Bourdain biopic, Tony, has been released giving us a sweary look at the late food icon’s younger years. Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers breakout, plays 19-year-old Bourdain as he gets his first job in a kitchen in mid-70s Cape Cod. Continue reading...

Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey has been released. Starring Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, the epic film retells the story of Odysseus’ 10-year voyage back to his homeland of Ithaca after the Greek vic…

A whiff of David Fincher’s Seven lingers in the air but this moody crime drama from David Lipper is devoid of clever twists ‘We got a serial killer,” announces a policeman in this retro 1990s-style thriller directed by David Lipper; evidence has comes back that an enigmatic, super-clever suspect (played by Dylan Sprouse) has the blood of three different people on his clothing. (But if the victims…

With its striking images and experimental soundtrack, artist Aura Satz’s film is an endurance test that might work better in a gallery This film from the London-based artist Aura Satz is an exploration of sirens – as in the warning devices, not the mythical creatures that lure unsuspecting men to their doom. Really it’s an art film, and might have been more at home in a gallery where audiences wo…

Sally Lindsay and Jill Halfpenny are incapable of hitting a false note in this tale of a daytime TV presenter being stalked. It’s full of twists and turns – even if it isn’t wildly sophisticated The new Channel 5 (I know! Me too – but yes, it’s still around) thriller Number One Fan stars two Coronation Street graduates from back in the days when the soap was still good. My peak Corrie-watching ye…

Lee Sang-il’s heartfelt drama spans 50 years following the bond and rivalry between two brothers who play the rigorously observed female roles in the traditional art form Lee Sang-il’s heartfelt and muscular epic (whose title means “national treasure”) was a box-office smash on its Japanese home turf, winning a host of festival awards and an Oscar nomination. It’s a mighty Cain-and-Abel drama spa…

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway shine in frothy sequel that smartly comments on struggling media industry This article contains spoilers for The Devil Wears Prada 2 The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking After a promotional blitz that has run the full gamut from haute ( Meryl Streep on the cover of Vogue with Anna Wintour ) to not (a heinous line of Target sweats), T…

A desperate cabbie joins a service that directs him down a shadowy path in this interesting, less-is-more satirical thriller Canadian film-maker Michael Pierro makes his feature debut with this low-to-no-budget sortie, a modern-day Travis Bickle nightmare which, though flawed and in need of some script development, adds up to a pertinent satirical comment on the gig economy and the Waymo-isation …

Jack Thorne, the co-writer of 'Adolescence,' admirably adapts William Golding's 1954 novel about boy castaways into a miniseries for Netflix.

_Journal of Humanities and Leadership Studies_ 1 (2):77-92. 2025The invention of the camera as a motion-picture recording device heralded the birth of film, and continuing technological advancements have since transformed filmmaking practices worldwide. As global industries adjust to emerging digital standards, Nollywood—one of Africa’s most influential film cultures—faces persistent challenges i…

Exclusive: Two ‘intimate conversations’ held with writers, directors and producers, with a third due in June Nato is holding closed-door meetings with film and TV screenwriters, directors and producers across Europe and the US, the Guardian can reveal, prompting accusations the alliance is seeking to use the arts to generate “propaganda” for the bloc. The alliance has held three meetings with fil…

Sassica Francis-Bruce regularly joined her father – a film editor – on set. As she grew older she loved working beside him in the cutting room I clearly remember the first time I had a soda because it was the same day Jack Nicholson threw up on me. Deliberately. He’d burst through the doors of a church and began a profanity-riddled tirade against God and women as he gesticulated madly and accoste…

From celebrity cameos to lucrative brand partnerships, The Devil Wears Prada 2’s approach to maximising revenue is worthy of Runway’s finest For a film that serves as a commentary on the perilous economics of today’s media landscape, it’s fitting that promotion for The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been so frank about its finances. Speaking ahead of the New York premiere, Meryl Streep revealed she init…

Ann Hornaday, former film critic for the Washington Post, explores the journalism classic from the inside, along with its lessons for publishers.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has also rewritten rules on international film eligibility The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a number of major changes for the Oscars on Friday, including a new policy allowing multiple nominations for a single actor in one category, as well as barring acting and writing awards for work done by AI. According to new statutes …

The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced In a time before crypto, Twitter, and AI slop, we had communities, real experiences, and beautiful TV… Driving in a Buick Century through a rural town in middle America, pulling a Motorola brick cellphone from their suit jackets; Mulder and Scully have pulled me into their world, and I think I want to be there, even with the superna…

In this week’s newsletter: Fans expecting the Vogue matriarch to pop up in Miranda Priestley’s latest outing have been disappointed – but as Hollywood history shows, guest appearances don’t always go to plan … The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a cameo list more stuffed than the fashion cupboard at the film’s fictional Runway magazine. It runs the gamut from eye-poppingly famous (Lady Gaga, Donatella Ve…

The creator of this singular work of art founded his own TV network to get it aired – and it’s cast is an absolute dream. Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Patti LuPone are just superb Details about how a TV series was commissioned or why it ended up on a particular streamer are normally tedious and superfluous: once a piece of art has been made, it stands alone and our assessment of it needn’t be…