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<p>‘I thought that I would live the rest of my life making movies for a small minority of people in Korea’</p>
Interview

Oldboy’s Park Chan Wook: ‘Korean film is in a state of great danger’

The acclaimed director of ‘Oldboy’ and ‘The Handmaiden’ speaks to Louis Chilton about the problems facing his country’s filmmakers, his one-time reputation for grotesquerie, and his darkly funny new satire ‘No Other Choice’

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>
Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

<p>Paying homage: Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’</p>
In Focus

How Nouvelle Vague recaptures Breathless and its role in a revolution

<p>‘K-Pop?’: DiCaprio in his viral moment at the 2026 Golden Globes</p>
Comment

DiCaprio’s ‘personality reveal’ wasn’t the mask-slip everybody thinks

Inside Film

<p>Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’</p>
Inside Film

How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective world views – but it’d be too easy to claim they’ve simply misunderstood the text, writes Xan Brooks
<p>Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’</p>
Inside Film

Timothée Supreme: How Chalamet finally escaped boy-next-door purgatory

The ‘Dune’ star’s new, Golden Globe-winning role as ping-pong prodigy Marty Mauser is a watershed moment for an actor whose ascendant career has not been without its teething issues, writes Xan Brooks

Reviews

<p>Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in ‘The Rip’</p>
Reviews

What were Ben Affleck and Matt Damon thinking with charmless The Rip?

<p>Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in ‘Rental Family’</p>
Reviews

Brendan Fraser’s treacly Rental Family doesn’t ask difficult questions

<p>Bone appetite: Jack O'Connell plays a sinister cult leader in ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’</p>
Reviews

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple goes even further than its predecessor

<p>Jessie Buckley in ‘Hamnet’</p>
Reviews

Oscar-primed Hamnet isn’t as manipulative as its critics claim

<p>Kate Hudson in ‘Song Sung Blue’</p>
Reviews

The Kate Hudson musical weepie Song Sung Blue is pure Oscar bait

<p>Stellan Skarsgård in Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’</p>
Reviews

Stellan Skarsgård powers the tender, Oscar-tipped Sentimental Value

<p>Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s ‘Marty Supreme’</p>
Reviews

Marty Supreme confirms Timothée Chalamet as one of our greatest actors

<p>Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the campy thriller ‘The Housemaid’</p>
Reviews

Sydney Sweeney has a camp hit on her hands with The Housemaid

<p>Stellan Skarsgård in Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’</p>
Reviews

Stellan Skarsgård powers the tender, Oscar-tipped Sentimental Value

<p>Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s ‘Marty Supreme’</p>
Reviews

Marty Supreme confirms Timothée Chalamet as one of our greatest actors

<p>Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the campy thriller ‘The Housemaid’</p>
Reviews

Sydney Sweeney has a camp hit on her hands with The Housemaid

Interviews

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>
Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

‘You have to naturally be as tough as old boots to be in the game this long’
Interview

Pierce Brosnan: ‘I’m 72 – I can feel the tick of time moving on for me’

<p>‘Sentimental Value’ director Joachim Trier with his stars Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård</p>
Interview

Stellan Skarsgård and the cast of Sentimental Value on the year’s most emotional film

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>
Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

<p>‘I think people are missing the relationships they had with ER, or 24, or NYPD Blue. It was something you could rely on’</p>
Interview

Kiefer Sutherland: ‘After 24, there weren’t opportunities staring me in the face’

<p>Delroy Lindo: 'Sinners is telling the larger story of what happens when a community is violated'</p>
Interview

Delroy Lindo: ‘I get tired of my own voice – but never of talking about Sinners’

<p>‘I’m as actory as they get’: Billy Crudup was amused by the idea of playing a Method actor in ‘Jay Kelly’</p>
Interview

Billy Crudup: ‘America is becoming an increasingly lawless community’

<p>‘It’s like we’re walking around as a kind of Frankenstein of different tweets. It’s this poisonous, internet-bred irony that’s very stunting’</p>
Interview

Search Party’s John Early: ‘We don’t have thinkers. We have memes’

Features

<p>Jessie Buckley and Joe Alwyn in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’</p>
Comment

Ignore the awards – Hamnet is manipulative Shakespeare fan fiction

<p>Rumoured new Bond Callum Turner in a very 007 get-up at a film premiere last August</p>
Comment

‘New Bond’ Callum Turner is very believable casting for 007

<p>‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘The Drama’, ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ and ‘The Odyssey’ lead our 2026 preview</p>
2026 Culture Guide

20 movies to look out for in 2026, from The Odyssey to The Drama

In Focus

Brigitte Bardot courted controversy until the end

News

<p>Lina Esco and Ben Affleck co-star in Netflix's new crime thriller 'The Rip'</p>
News

The Rip star Lina Esco on ‘dorking around’ with co-star Ben Affleck

<p>Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead February 27, 2025, in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home</p>
News

Gene Hackman estate being sold a year after actor and wife died there

<p>Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in 2023’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’</p>
News

Indiana Jones officially dead (for now) following flop fifth movie

<p>Matt Damon during his appearance on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’</p>
News

Matt Damon raises eyebrows with ‘cancel culture’ prison claim

<p>Jessie Buckley poses with the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama award for "Hamnet"at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes</p>
Features

Jessie Buckley’s remarkable rise from TV talent show to Oscar hopeful

<p>Jennifer Lawrence pictured at the Golden Globes in January 2026, says she was 'not pretty enough' to play Sharon Tate</p>
News

Jennifer Lawrence claims she lost Tarantino role: ‘Not pretty enough’

<p>Matt Damon during his appearance on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’</p>
News

Matt Damon raises eyebrows with ‘cancel culture’ prison claim

<p>Jessie Buckley poses with the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama award for "Hamnet"at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes</p>
Features

Jessie Buckley’s remarkable rise from TV talent show to Oscar hopeful

<p>Jennifer Lawrence pictured at the Golden Globes in January 2026, says she was 'not pretty enough' to play Sharon Tate</p>
News

Jennifer Lawrence claims she lost Tarantino role: ‘Not pretty enough’

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