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

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

Despite his viral moment, the star remains one of Hollywood’s most inscrutable mysteries. Who is this man, asks Louis Chilton, beyond his films and his childhood love of pasta?

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

Rising Stars

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

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

Comment

Ignore the awards – Hamnet is manipulative Shakespeare fan fiction

‘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’

Inside Film

<p>Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’</p>

Inside Film

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

The actor’s new role as egomaniacal ping-pong prodigy Marty Mauser has seen him emerge as this awards season’s Best Actor frontrunner. It’s a watershed moment for a star whose ascendant career has not been without its teething issues, writes Xan Brooks

<p>Gloria Swanson as the faded movie star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’</p>

Inside Film

Hollywood is poison – and Sunset Boulevard exposed it all

Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

Reviews

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

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

Danny Boyle cedes directorial duties to the ‘Candyman’ filmmaker for a bold and deceptively playful post-apocalyptic follow-up

<p>Jessie Buckley in ‘Hamnet’</p>

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

Interviews

<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 I never get tired 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’

<p>‘Should I become one of these people sitting and complaining about how difficult things have become? Or should I rather try and find a way? In the end, I decided to do whatever it took to keep working’</p>

Interview

Jafar Panahi, Iran’s most important filmmaker, was sentenced to jail after this interview

Interview

Josh Brolin: ‘I shouldn’t have ended up where I ended up’

Features

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

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

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

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

In Focus

Brigitte Bardot courted controversy until the end

<p>Filmmaker Rob Reiner on the set of ‘When Harry Met Sally’, with his stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan</p>

Tribute

Rob Reiner was joy personified – and his movies were warm hugs

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