Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate
Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate
Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
Director Tzeli Hadjidimitriou grew up on Lesbos, and her elegant debut feature explores how the Greek poet’s birthplace became a hub for lesbians
Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
It’s a bit of a mystery why it takes Odysseus so long to get home if he’s not shacking up with Calypso and others, writes Zoe Williams
Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
Shark Week arrives in an overstuffed period for the film genre even if nothing will ever rival the greatest of them all
Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
The soundscape of Robbie Banfitch’s latest low-budget film is key to the creepy mood, in a story of a disappeared girl and her brother’s attempts to find out more
Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired
‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
Netflix documentary A Child of My Own tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a hospital worker who went to extreme lengths in her efforts to become a mother. Its director recounts their meetings in a Mexican prison
It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
Working Dog team behind the 1997 film reuniting to write ‘new, fully updated’ version for the stage, which will premiere in Melbourne in 2027
David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
Jonsson has come a long way from east London’s Docklands, winning accolades on stage and screen
Plas Johnson obituary
Celebrated saxophonist in demand for session work and film soundtracks who was famous for his stylistic and technical versatility
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
The Odyssey is the summer’s biggest film: an adaptation of an almost 3,000 year old poem that everyone is talking about. So what was our readers’ verdict?
Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
Speaking to the Dish podcast, it is unclear which films he was referring to, though the Spider-Man and Odyssey star said he was ‘super proud’ of both of those
Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection
Pop star is celebrated as ‘one of the defining cultural figures of her generation’ by gallery, which acquires Brat-era portrait by Harley Weir