movies
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The Nice Guys and Ryan Gosling's loo etiquetteRussell Crowe, the star of The Nice Guys – Shane Black’s action comedy about a pair of misfit guns for hire who are trying to track down a missing porn star – talks to Andrew Pulver -
Alice sequel slips up as X-men maintain a heroic holdThe X-Men’s superhero status is challenged but not toppled by Alice Through the Looking Glass, while Love & Friendship gets plenty of affection over bank holiday
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Night Manager director Susanne Bier 'shortlisted for next Bond film'Danish film-maker reported to be under consideration to take over from Sam Mendes at the helm of the next 007 installment -
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story set for reshoots to 'lighten film's mood'Disney adds four extra weeks to sci-fi spin-off’s production schedule after executives judge early cut as feeling too much ‘like a war movie’
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Ken Loach: punishing the poor is part of David Cameron's projectFilm-maker says it would be pointless to show his Palme d’Or-winner I, Daniel Blake to Conservative government
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Captain America: Civil War review – an aspartame rushEntertaining mayhem ensues when some of the Avengers reject government oversight following a botched operation
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Dheepan review – a crime drama packed with epiphanic grandeurJacques Audiard’s confident Palme d’Or-winner has a rare and keen interest in its characters – a trio of Tamil refugees in Paris – and an exhilarating mastery of style
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A Bigger Splash review – Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes plumb the depths of desireIn Luca Guadagnino’s simmering drama, two ex-lovers are disastrously reunited at a Mediterranean villa where the pool is a temple of bared flesh and sex perfumes the air
video & audio
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Rogue One reshoots and Alice falls down a hole – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach: exclusive clip – videoAfter his triumphant Palme d’Or win at this year’s Cannes film festival, a new documentary is looking back on the vast career of the acclaimed British film-maker
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Summer movie preview and The Nice Guys reviewed - the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Tuesday’s movie news
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'By far the hardest film I've ever made': Eva Orner on Chasing Asylum – Guardian Australia culture podcastFilm critic Luke Buckmaster speaks with Chasing Asylum director Eva Orner and Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey after a screening of the documentary for Guardian Australia’s Film Club. They discuss safeguarding sources, why Orner decided to show security guards’ faces and how the film’s release strategy was designed to avoid government interference
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Cristian Mungiu on Graduation: 'We need a collective solution for Romanian society' - video interviewCristian Mungiu, the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Beyond the Hills talks to Nigel M Smith about his new film
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Can movie Twitter campaigns work and Mon Roi reviewed – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Friday’s movie news
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Finding Dory’s lesbian characters are only a big deal when it's not a big dealThe trailer for the Finding Nemo sequel features a brief shot of two women with a baby – leading to excited speculation that Disney-Pixar is swimming with the LGBT tide
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A gay superhero? Yes please! Just not Captain AmericaShock tactics would send a message about studios’ willingness to catch up with society – but there are better candidates than Steve Rogers
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How Disney’s princesses got toughAfter decades of selling young girls damsels in distress, Disney has finally made a run of films with strong female roles. It’s just a shame it took them so long
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Ken Loach's win is cheering – but the bluntness of I, Daniel Blake may shock BritsNo one would begrudge the great director his second Palme d’Or victory for a drama with a noble, emphatic message. Yet it also serves to illustrate the differences between the Cannes crowd and the wider film audience
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Duncan Jones on Warcraft: 'If you get it wrong, people are going to be upset'The director son of David Bowie on his £100m franchise movie and the downside of geek culture
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After The Babadook: Jennifer Kent's new film tackles Australia's violent colonial historyAustralian writer-director says of The Nightingale, the first film after her thrilling debut, ‘It’s certainly not a horror film but it’s a pretty horrific world’
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Melissa McCarthy: ‘I love a woman who doesn't play by the rules’Bridesmaids made her one of the world’s most highly paid actresses. Now she’s taking over from the men in Ghostbusters
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Paul Verhoeven on Elle: 'It is not a rape comedy'No female actor in Hollywood would touch it. But the director’s perverse black comedy starring Isabelle Huppert was the toast of Cannes. The controversial film-maker talks about his most daring work yet
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Andrew Davies: my Les Misérables will be nothing like 'shoddy farrago' musicalSpeaking at Hay festival, veteran writer, who adapted War & Peace for the BBC, said Victor Hugo’s novel needs a champion
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Stephan James on playing Jesse Owens: ‘Being famous didn’t mean anything: he was still black’The Canadian actor’s portrayal of the athlete’s triumph in Race, set in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is a tale of success in spite of racism. And today, James says the lack of Hollywood diversity means he has to work twice as hard
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsGeorge Clooney: five best momentsThe Oscar-winner reunites with Julia Roberts for his financial thriller Money Monster but what have been his greatest on-screen roles?
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The film quizThe film quizBlood test: match the red stuff to the film – quizAs Iggy Pop stars in the violent thriller Blood Orange this week, test your knowledge about how many bloody scenes you recognise for past films
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UK box office reportUK box office reportAlice sequel slips up as X-Men maintain a heroic hold on the UK box officeThe X-Men’s superhero status is challenged but not toppled by Alice Through the Looking Glass, while Love & Friendship gets plenty of affection over bank holiday
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentArabian Nights: satire meets Scheherazade in epic Portuguese trilogyMiguel Gomes explores his country’s austerity years via myth and dick jokes
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!A window on infinity: rediscovering the short films of the Lumière brothersAs shown by a new restoration of some of the 1,400 shorts that the pioneers of early cinema filmed, the Lumières were true artists as well as inventors
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsOur Brand Is Crisis; Youth; The Club; Rams; 600 Miles; Goosebumps; The Peanuts Movie; Bon Voyage Charlie Brown – reviewSandra Bullock shines as a hard-nosed spin doctor, a pampered Michael Caine overdoes the white male gaze – and why The Peanuts Movie offers little to Snoopy nostalgists
you may have missed
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Arabian Nights: satire meets Scheherazade in epic Portuguese trilogyMiguel Gomes explores his country’s austerity years via myth and dick jokes
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Face/off: the oddest facial expressions on movie posters – in picturesA new poster for oil spill disaster film Deepwater Horizon has John Malkovich looking like a stern yet camp science teacher in a sitcom – but he’s not the only actor to have made a left-field expression choice in a one-sheet
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The Moon and the Sledgehammer: the cult film about a Sussex family who hid in a forestIn 1969, Philip Trevelyan filmed the beguilingly strange life of the Page family, who lived off-grid and rode steam engines round their wood. The director talks about how the film changed his life
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Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician moviesMiles Ahead and Born to Be Blue immortalise Miles Davis and link him to Chet Baker. I’m all for expanding the cinetrompette genre: the candidates pick themselves
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Sex, ghosts, money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016The films previewed at Cannes span revolutionary politics, explicit nudity and paranormal activity. Here are the five top themes
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Satanic sharks and killer donuts: best of the worst film posters at Cannes 2016These movies won’t win awards – they’ll be lucky just to get an audience. Here are some of the horror shows looking for a buyer at the festival
Popstar review Bieber-esque parody skewers bratty boy bands