Lupita Nyong’o, Odessa A’zion and the Norman Nobrains of racially controversial casting
Nobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actors
Sam Raimi: ‘I was very lucky that Stephen King gave The Evil Dead a good word. It got noticed and I was off’
The Send Help director is best known for horror but his roots lie in comedy and no-budget shorts shot with pals in 1970s Detroit
The Movie Quiz: Who is not a Looney Tuner?
Plus: The director of which sequence has just stepped up as the first lady’s official chronicler?
A Quiet Love review: Charming and deeply humane
As well as being touched by the sweetness of the stories, anyone ignorant about deafness will get an education
Send Help review: Trash this classy doesn’t come along often enough
Sam Raimi’s genre-skipping desert-island satire gives Rachel McAdams room to be charming, vicious and unsettling in equal measure
Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit Trap
Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026
Melania review: Shameless propaganda that could put you to sleep
If this supposed documentary weren’t about what it’s actually about, it could at times play as an unlikely meditation aid
John Bishop: ‘I went into a mad depression because I realised I was a man being told what to do by another man’
The Liverpudlian comedian on inspiring Bradley Cooper’s new film Is This Thing On?
The Movie Quiz: Who has never been in a James Bond film?
Plus: What song plays under the Walt Disney logo at the start of their films?
Nigella Lawson descends from the heavens to redeem The Great British Bake Off with her sacred double entendres
News that the food guru is to join the Channel 4 cookery show has sent journalists crackers
Nouvelle Vague review: Richard Linklater’s love letter to an iconic era of French cinema
This portrayal of the creation of Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, celebrates Frenchness at its most proudly awkward
Is This Thing On? review: A sincerely felt origin story for comedian John Bishop moved from Liverpool to New York
Director Bradley Cooper’s approach takes us closer to an improv night than a session of disciplined joke-telling
Baftas 2026: A record-breaking Hamnet, a slate of Irish talent, and a strange awards-race decision
Jessie Buckley’s Bafta nomination confirms her as strong favourite for the best-actress award
Sorry, what did Matt Damon just say? I was looking at my phone
The Rip star says Netflix tells film-makers to repeat the plot a few times, for the benefit of doom-scrolling audiences
Four new films to see this week: The History of Sound, Mercy, No Other Choice and H Is for Hawk
Paul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026