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The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull

The 1989 Hong Kong thriller established Woo as one of the greats, with its explosive gun fights, high-speed car chases and an incorruptible hero

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

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  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
  • The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
  • Lesvia review – the rise and fall of an amazing lesbian community on Sappho’s actual island home
  • Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?
  • Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
  • Tinsman Road review – found footage haunted horror as a film-maker searches for his sister haunts
  • Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
  • ‘She wasn’t acting, she wanted to live it’: how a fake pregnancy resulted in the wildest true crime film of the year
  • It’s the vibe: Australian comedy classic The Castle set to become a stage play
  • David Jonsson: the London rising star handpicked to be the new Black Panther
  • Plas Johnson obituary
  • ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
  • ‘It reminded me of James Bond’: Guardian readers on The Odyssey
  • Tom Holland says some of his films are ‘shit’ and people shouldn’t see them
  • Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection
  • The Phantom Pain of Rojava review – Kurdish veterans of the war against IS tell story of courage and survival
  • Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ
  • ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
  • Unauthorised version of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey shared on X
  • A Dairy Story review – giving cows and calves a happier life through progressive farming
  • Valentina and the MUOSters review – US military surveillance in Sicily triggers family discord on the ground

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