Cate Blanchett and Harry Styles to head to Venice for 2022 edition of film festival
Competition slots for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky, while actors on show range from past winner Blanchett to Bill Nighy and Harry Styles
June 2022
Best culture of 2022 so far
The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
May 2022
Week in geek
Super bad: who is the greatest ever Marvel supervillain?
Director Taika Waititi reckons it’s Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher in the forthcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. But what about Thanos? Or Loki? And who else is in the running?
April 2022
‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis podcast
In Climate of Change, old friends actor Cate Blanchett and clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy aim to offer ordinary people real-life solutions to environmental disaster
March 2022
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Nightmare Alley should win the best picture Oscar
Guillermo del Toro’s freaky bizarro noir is more than a well-dressed genre exercise, as Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett offer an acting masterclass
Week in geek
Cate Blanchett and Star Trek would be a match made in heaven – please make it happen
Blanchett is the perfect fantasy-film actor, so why has her genre film career been so minimal?
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Don’t Look Up should win the best picture Oscar
By laying bare the roots of human folly, Adam McKay’s fun parable shows how entertainment can generate enlightenment
January 2022
Nightmare Alley review – a neo-noir knockout from Guillermo del Toro
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s fairground of fear is a class act
December 2021
Look away: why star-studded comet satire Don’t Look Up is a disaster
Charles Bramesco
Adam McKay’s celeb-packed Netflix comedy aims to be a farcical warning of climate change but broad potshots and a smug superiority tanks his message
Fellowship of the Ring at 20: the film that revitalised and ruined Hollywood
Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings film was a stunning achievement but it introduced a new world of delayed and extended gratification
Don’t Look Up review – an A-list apocalyptic mess
‘I’d stop stockpiling toilet paper’: Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance and Tyler Perry on their end-of-the-world plans
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s trickster thriller is light on treats
September 2021
Megalopolis: can Francis Ford Coppola’s $100m gamble pay off?
The auteur’s long-planned passion project is finally edging toward production, an audacious gambit that he plans to mostly fund himself
May 2021
Forget me not: what if a virus stole our memories?
Christos Nikou’s new comedy Apples is about a city afflicted with mass amnesia. The director explains why technology is already leading us there
February 2021
Teenage kicks
Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen'
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't a bad movie
December 2020
2020 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1
Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best
November 2020
Aacta awards 2020: Cate Blanchett’s Stateless and Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth win big
Women-led productions dominate distanced ceremony after year academy president Russell Crowe describes as ‘very challenging’
