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  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Review
    Six films to watch this week

    All shook up by Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’; Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire’ restored and re-released; young director Cooper Raiff makes an impact in ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’; ‘Faya Dayi’ is a mesmerising documentary about qat; a shockingly blunt view of the porn game in ‘Pleasure’; Emma Thompson hires a male escort in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ — all reviewed by Danny Leigh

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Cha Cha Real Smooth — young drifter’s tale is acute, funny and only a little annoying

    Director Cooper Raiff stars as a New Jersey party entertainer who falls for an older single mother

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Wings of Desire — the beauty of Wim Wenders’ classic grows deeper

    The passing of time has intensified the melancholy of this poignant 1987 study of angels living among us

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Faya Dayi — the highs and lows of using and dealing qat

    Jessica Beshir traces the psychoactive plant’s political history in a deceptively gorgeous documentary

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Elvis — Baz Luhrmann’s mad, maximalist glitterbomb of a biopic

    Star Austin Butler excels at the karaoke while Tom Hanks exudes childcatcher vibes as his manager Colonel Tom Parker

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Offer, Paramount Plus — entertaining but baggy drama about the making of The Godfather

    A 10-part series covers the off-camera struggle to turn Mario Puzo’s crime saga into a film

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    InterviewMusic
    Jane Birkin: ‘I think you are always thinking about romantic love’

    The singer and actor on life with Serge Gainsbourg, why she’s still making ‘dangerous, provoking’ music — and the allure of Helen Mirren

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Seven of the best Elvis-inspired film performances

    With a bombastic biopic about to hit cinemas, we remember other memorable movie portrayals of Presley

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Lightyear — Toy Story spin-off has buzz but lacks the old Pixar ache

    Chris Evans is the voice of the space ranger in a prequel that finds him stranded on a planet of tentacular aliens

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Spiderhead — Chris Hemsworth is miscast in Netflix’s botched drugs experiment

    Miles Teller plays one of a group of prisoners tested on by a nefarious doctor

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Pleasure — a shockingly blunt and dispassionate view of the porn game

    Sofia Kappel is magnetic as a Swedish newcomer to LA intent on making it in adult entertainment

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Review
    Everything Went Fine — French family saga handles death with a light touch

    A father demands that his daughter arrange an assisted suicide for him in François Ozon’s knockabout film

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Six films to watch this week
    Good Luck to You, Leo Grande — Emma Thompson cruises through sex-work comedy

    Daryl McCormack co-stars as an escort hired by an older woman in Sophie Hyde’s frank and funny film

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Fashion
    ‘He was his own maker of style’: ‘Elvis’ costume designer on reimagining a legend

    You can’t help falling in love with the Elvis biopic’s 90-plus costume changes

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Jo Ellison
    The Maverick genius of Tom Cruise

    Top Gun is back, along with an onslaught of Eighties cultural icons. Bring it on

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Swan Song — Udo Kier spreads his wings as a madcap agent of camp

    A gay émigré flees his grim Ohio nursing home in Todd Stephens’ precisely observed film

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Il buco — a tantalising, spectacular caving drama

    Michelangelo Frammartino’s film tells the story — largely without words — of a 1961 expedition in Calabria

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Review
    Last Looks — Mel Gibson pops up in a shaggy crime movie

    Hollywood-set comic yarn stars Charlie Hunnam as a seasoned sleuth

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Review
    Jurassic World Dominion — a franchise aware of its looming extinction

    The promised final chapter is a parade of generic action mayhem partially saved by legacy cast members

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Interview
    Film-maker Cooper Raiff on going from Uber Eats to delivering a Sundance hit

    The 25-year-old actor-director discusses breaking into the industry, the feelgood ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ — and making himself cry

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Interview
    The making of caving film Il buco: ‘Maybe only God has been there’

    Michelangelo Frammartino took his crew 700 metres underground for a truly immersive piece of cinema

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    Stephen Bush
    The spectre of ‘fan capture’ stalks our politics

    Party members resemble ‘Star Wars’ devotees in their commitment to the cause

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Review
    Fire Island — Disney’s gay romcom comes loaded with controversy

    Asian-American-led movie mixing Jane Austen with ketamine and fellatio arrives in tricky times for the studio

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Review
    Bergman Island review — scenes from a cinephile marriage

    Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps star as a film-making couple visiting the director’s home in Mia Hansen-Løve’s charming drama

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Review
    Men review — Jessie Buckley stars in a man’s-eye view of violent misogyny

    Alex Garland writes and directs a film that fuses fairytale, trauma and folk horror before sinking into silly wig-out

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