The 20 best corridors in film – ranked!
Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema
‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism
Wicked co-star said reactions to the incident, which included suggestions she was Grande’s ‘bodyguard’, reflect an insidious view of Black women
‘Impossible, exhausting, horrifying’: how a chilling supernatural play explains the terror of life in Iran
Hit Iranian horror Under the Shadow conjured scares from the aftermath of the 1979 revolution. With Tehran once again under siege, a new theatrical version makes that story feel more relevant than ever
‘Not many kids had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland
Fairyland is a bittersweet film about a girl brought up by her gay father in a blizzard of glitter and feather boas in 1970s San Francisco. Its makers discuss its resonance, its tragedies – and their own boho childhoods
‘Put an end to this war’: Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes new plea to Putin
After winning the Grand Prix at Cannes film festival, the exiled auteur sent a direct message to the Russian president urging him to stop the war
The great Australian nightmare: how the housing crisis inspired a wave of brutal – and funny – pop culture
Soaring prices, rental stress and intergenerational inequality are fuelling new films, books and plays, including Birthright and Kill Your Boomers
Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar
Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook
Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew
‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing
The film-maker talks about her homeland’s ‘racism, paternalism and infantilisation’ towards Indigenous people and her award-winning documentary about a community leader’s murder
Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece
The Hong Kong action master’s deliriously violent 1990 epic fuses gangland thriller, war movie and tragic melodrama into a spectacular vision of greed and moral collapse
Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun
All smoke, shady dames and black and white cinematography, Marvel’s latest Spidey offering is fast, witty and confident
Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama
A behind-the-scenes second world war drama focused on the importance of weather is too stodgy and repetitive to work as anything but a so-so TV movie
Paddington 4: Armando Iannucci to write bear’s next movie with Thick of It and Veep cowriter
Fourth Paddington film will be written by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, who wrote with Iannucci on The Thick of It, In The Loop and Veep
‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film
In the documentary Ask E Jean, the journalist and author provides an unflinching account of her life, career and groundbreaking legal victories