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Playing a piano tuner with super sensitive hearing, Woodall’s relationship with Hoffman is a tender highlight in this unforced crime drama Leo Woodall’s breakout TV roles in The White Lotus and One Day offered a megawatt charisma, but for his biggest film role to date he dims it to a soft glow with gentle performance opposite Dustin Hoffman as one of a pair of New York piano tuners. And what a pa…

Two widows of the same man remain behind in an abandoned mountain village in Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey’s visually arresting documentary In the valley of Dhorpatan in western Nepal, winter arrives with unforgiving intensity. Clouds of freezing mist gradually descend, making the rocky terrain look starkly barren, a lonesome void amid vertiginous mountain ranges. At this time of the year, most o…

With Nicolas Cage starring as the Spider, the series, available in color and in black and white, is a retro reimagining of the well-known superhero.

The latest in our ongoing series of writers celebrating their most rewatched comfort films is a pick for 1996’s revealing and relatable romantic thriller I’m not necessarily inclined towards what might typically be dubbed “feelgood”. No, you won’t find me seduced by a happy ending, nor am I partial to the oeuvre of Disney (in fact, I find all the talking animals and poreless princesses a bit grot…

A disaster on Valentine’s Day sets off a sprawling tale of hidden lives and social fault lines in director Herman Yau’s ambitious ensemble drama Prolific Hong Kong film-maker Herman Yau is back with an ambitious, sprawling drama that is, at best, an awkward composite of his past works. We’re Nothing at All kicks off with a moment of rupture: on a seemingly ordinary Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong, a…

A documentary tries to piece together what happened in the 1995 shootings of three Essex drug dealers. Plus, the return of Springwatch. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, Channel 4 “There was a lot of people queueing to waste them.” Former criminals and detectives share what they know about the “Range Rover murders”, when, in 1995, drug dealers Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe were shot…

Film starring Pedro Pascal next to ‘Baby Yoda’ took $165m globally on opening weekend, failing to surpass the opening of 2018 flop Solo The Mandalorian and Grogu may have blasted into first place at the box office – but its launch was far, far away from impressive, having the lowest opening weekend for a Star Wars film since Disney took over the franchise. The film, which stars Pedro Pascal as th…

New political actors in established democracies raise key issues regarding the disruptive effects of new technologies on electoral competition, voter mobilization, and the design of political parties and organizations. This study focuses on the emergence of film actor Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), which went to the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (TNA) elections as a single party. …

Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’ Under a white marquee on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and superyachts drifting across the horizon, the director Darren Aronofsky addressed an audience of executives and tech evangelists gathered for an “AI for Talent” summit. “There’s so much pushback…

_Cinej Cinema Journal_ 14 (1):231-267. 2026This study explores how post-1990s commercial cinema absorbs and reconfigures the narrative ambiguity of art cinema. Through formalist and cognitive analyses of Pulp Fiction, Memento, Mulholland Drive, and Inception, this study identifies a hybrid form of complexity that merges aesthetic indeterminacy with market-oriented storytelling. The concept of hyb…

Mungiu took home the prestigious Palme D'Or for his film Fjord , a culture-war drama set in Norway.

Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attention These were the prizes for a Cannes under pressure. The Hollywood A-listers and big-hitters were A-listing and big-hitting at home this year. And what about the international heavyweights from Europe and Asia that highbrow festivali…

English-language debut by Romanian director who triumphed in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days takes top prize Nineteen years after his searing abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the top prize at the Cannes film festival, Cristian Mungiu’s English-language debut, Fjord , has repeated the trick. The film, which stars Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan as Romanian religious parents…

Drugs, sex, scorpions, breakdowns … a summer trip in Greece goes diabolically wrong in the BBC’s immaculate new show that will give you a well-earned break from bad TV Hell is other people. But a fortnight’s summer holiday in a Greek island villa with three pals you have known since university, the young second wife of one of them, your depressive husband and the mulish French nanny the second wi…

The actor on his Lauren Laverne crush, missing jury service, and shoving chocolate mousse in his agent’s face Born in London, Tom Burke, 44, trained at Rada. In 2008, he won the Ian Charleson award for his role in Creditors at London’s Donmar Warehouse. From 2014 to 2016, he appeared in the BBC series The Musketeers; his other TV work includes War & Peace and Strike, in which he plays the title r…

This stellar adaptation of James Graham’s award-winning play is a stirring take on national identity – even if not all the actors look like the real footballers. Put it this way, Wayne Rooney will be very pleased indeed To watch Dear England (Sunday, 9pm, BBC One) – the BBC’s stellar adaptation of James Graham’s Olivier award-winning play – you must first understand the incomparable damage to the…

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming cinematography, introducing unprecedented capabilities across the entire filmmaking pipeline. This systematic review synthesizes findings from 76 research papers—with detailed focus on 30 key studies published between 2021 and 2026—to examine how AI technologies are reshaping pre-production, production, and post-production workfl…

Cannes film festival: This could be better paced but the crisis which descends on an up-against-it dairy farm is delivered by some very memorable goons There’s nothing like a home-invasion suspense thriller to provide a change of pace in the Cannes competition, and Léa Mysius’s film – adapted from the French bestseller Histoires de la Nuit by Laurent Mauvignier – isn’t at all bad, although it run…

Jason Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo co-star in a generic piece of nighttime driving horror, doubly cursed for arriving during a moment of creativity for the genre.