You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?
In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
Julian Schnabel’s combustible mix of lowlife cynicism and high art – along with cameos from Martin Scorsese and Al Pacino – powers this outrageous black comedy revolving around Dante’s Divine Comedy
Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson stumble in this mushy, overlong story of a woman leaving voicemails for her dead sister
‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can go
Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
Show features characters and sets from likes of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and celebrates roots in city
Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
As the cute, yellow, gibberish-spouting creatures return in Minions & Monsters, the animator who voices them and has directed five of the films in the franchise will be taking your questions
Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
Singer Hayley Kiyoko misses the mark in a meandering directorial debut packed with groan-inducing dialogue
‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
In an industry dominated by men, many women dedicate themselves to the craft of editing – as well as managing directors’ egos – to create some of the most celebrated and memorable big-screen classics
Tell us your favourite film of 2026 so far
We would like to hear about the best film you have seen this year so far and why
As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
Veteran interviewees are forever trotting out the same anecdotes in response to unoriginal questions – until one fearless disruptor dared ask if ET had moist skin
La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
José Luis López Vázquez’s phone box nightmare is short and sharp but Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s TV fever dream overplays its hand
‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
Locked out of his apartment, a cancer-stricken Parisian is caught in a race against time to freeze his sperm. The rising star who plays him explains how he tackled a very initimate quest
Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35
Los Angeles-based actor’s boyfriend said she died from meningitis and blood infection which in turn led to sepsis
Teddie Beverley obituary
Last of the Beverley Sisters, the singing trio who found fame in the 1950s with hits such as I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Little Donkey
Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator
Haunting documentary tells how Syrian academic Annsar Shahoud created an online persona to contact the suspected perpetrator of the Tadamon massacre