Golden Globes 2026: who will win and who should win the film awards?
This weekend promises a Hollywood showdown with films including Sinners, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another up for major awards
From Hamnet to Bridget Christie: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley play the Shakespeares in an emotional Maggie O’Farrell adaptation, while The Change creator returns to standup
Industry to Blue Velvet: the week in rave reviews
The high-finance melodrama returns, darker than ever, and David Lynch’s nightmare in suburbia gets another outing in the cinema. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
High Noon review – Billy Crudup brings classic Hollywood western back with a bang
Crudup and Denise Gough lead a tense adaptation that turns the film into a debate play whose McCarthy-era roots resonate powerfully today
AI, Salman Rushdie and Elon Musk: the most anticipated documentaries of 2026
Major new films promise to reveal more about the lives of public figures, provocative topics and historical events
Béla Tarr obituary
Film director of poetic narratives set in remote Hungarian communities, filled with desolation and foreboding
‘She will go down as one of the best’: the rise of Jessie Buckley
From talent shows to the big screen, the actor’s performance in Hamnet has made her a leading awards contender
Bafta 2026 film awards longlists hope to avoid #BaftasSoWhite diversity criticism
With strong showings for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and target hit for 50% female directors, criticism that has dogged the prizes in recent years may have been headed off
Forget Big Ben! Try Telford’s Frog Clock: why Hollywood should stop destroying the same old landmarks
As the Gerard Butler film Greenland 2 becomes one more addition to the list of action movies to tamper with the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty or Golden Gate bridge, isn’t it time they mixed it up a bit?
What is Marvel up to with its Avengers: Doomsday trailers?
Teaser reels for next December’s coming episode give no clues to the story, still less to how these old characters are returning via the multiverse
One awards battle after another: A-listers face off at this year’s Golden Globes
Big names from Leonardo DiCaprio to Timothée Chalamet are aiming for a win at Hollywood’s most important Oscars precursor
The Rip to The Ballad of Wallis Island: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star in an incredibly tense thriller about two narco cops who make a wild discovery, while Tim Key works his kooky charm in the heart-warming Britcom
‘I haven’t mellowed my violence’: Park Chan-wook on cultural dominance, the capitalist endgame and why we can’t beat AI
His brutal movies put Korean cinema on the map. Now the director of Oldboy is back with a blistering satire about a man driven to murder after redundancy
TV tonight: slow-burning hit Mystery Road prequel returns
Robyn Malcom (After The Party) joins Mark Coles Smith in season two of Origin. Plus: a huge quiz all about telly. Here’s what to watch this evening
Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup
Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Walters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot