After Brat: Can Charli XCX escape her epoch-making album with Music, Fashion, Film?
The pop star is returning with a new LP. This time she hasn’t come to party
Vincent Cassel
Four new films to see this week: Jurassic World Rebirth, The Shrouds, Beat the Lotto and Sudan, Remember Us
Mahershala Ali, Scarlett Johansson, Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Stefan Klincewicz feature in these movies released in the week of July 4th, 2025
The Shrouds review: David Cronenberg’s mordant, personal conspiracy thriller is one of director’s best films
There is an eerie stillness to the film that says as much about loss as does the disturbing premise at its centre
Horror director David Cronenberg on his wife’s death: ‘I wanted to get into the coffin, to be with her body’
The Shrouds is an intensely personal film for the maker of The Fly, Dead Ringers and Crash
‘I was violent and angry. Now I’m just angry’: Vincent Cassel on being hated, Brexit and Andrew Tate
He hung out with real-life mercenaries for his turn as an action hero in new spy thriller Liaison. Here, the ‘super-French’ star opens up about staying buff, missing Camembert and what it means to be a man
The Hollywood stars who cosied up to Vladimir Putin
Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio were once happy to hang with the Russian leader
Monica Bellucci: ‘I have two kids, I have slowed down!’
The multilingual Italian actor is overcoming stage fright to play opera diva Maria Callas
Underwater: Nothing to see here – literally – in this murky, appalling mess
Review: Mainstream Kristen Stewart is almost as bad as mainstream Julianne Moore
Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies
Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme
It’s Only the End of the World review: an unfocused sort of homecoming from Xavier Dolan
Dolan’s entry into the Weekend in Family Hell genre is certainly adventurous, but woefully miscast, and ultimately fails in its ambitions
Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?
It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?
Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film Festival
The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers
John Carney goes urban musical Once more
‘Once’ director John Carney’s new film has been dubbed ’Twice’ as it is about a couple making music around a city, this time New York, but he says it is part of a portfolio
Trance
Danny Boyle’s follow-up to the Olympics ceremomy is lurid, crazy, twisty and hard to entirely resist
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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