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French film director faces charges of sexual harassment of child actor Adèle Haenel

Haenel says Christophe Ruggia subjected her to ‘permanent sexual harassment’ during making of film when she was between 12 and 15

Golden Globes 2025: a lively list guaranteed to get under President-elect Trump’s skin

Sebastian Stan gets a best actor nomination for playing younger Trump in The Apprentice and a there’s a musical about a gender-reassigned Mexican gangster. Trump won’t be happy

The Shining, burritos and $5 gifts: readers’ unusual holiday traditions

Their answers are a reminder that the holidays can be whatever you want them to be

Why Anthony Hopkins’ Netflix Herod is Hot Frosty 2 – sort of

The august actor clearly sees his role as Herod in Netflix’s festive offering Mary as an audition for the more tinselly films next Christmas

Golden Globes 2025: full list of nominations

All the nominees for the awards ceremony due to take place on 5 January, the 82nd edition of the film and television gongs

Golden Globes 2025: Emilia Pérez scores 10 nominations as Kate Winslet, Selena Gomez and Sebastian Stan each take two

Jacques Audiard’s crime musical recognised in three musical and three acting categories as nominations announced in first major awards of season

‘It is quite creepy’: Keira Knightley flagged ‘stalkerish’ aspects while shooting Love Actually

The actor has commented on the ‘creep factor’ of the cue cards scene in Richard Curtis’s festive romance film, in which she featured as a 17-year-old

Irish rap comedy Kneecap tops British independent film awards

Director Rich Peppiatt said ‘there is an irony in the best British film being Irish’ as his Belfast-set film won seven prizes in total

Between the Lights review – a truly madly deeply felt love story that transcends time

A scientist dates a medium in Michael Groom’s ambitious supernatural romance that interweaves a trio of timelines

Biden and Harris attend Washington awards ceremony in one of their last major appearances together

Francis Ford Coppola receives lifetime achievement award at star-studded event with politicians, actors and directors

‘No shortage of comforts’: why Head of State is my feelgood movie

Latest in a series of writers highlighting mood-lifting films is a tribute to Chris Rock’s prescient 2003 political comedy

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore at 50: Scorsese’s low-key, high-impact 70s drama

Ellen Burstyn deservedly won an Oscar for her performance as a woman facing reality in a grounded character study

Simona Kossak review – smartly sharp biopic of pioneering Polish ecologist

A charismatic performance from Sandra Drzymalska and pacy direction from Adrian Panek makes for an unexpectedly appealing portrait of an unlikely hero

Kapr Code review – operatic retelling of composer Jan Kapr’s turbulent life

Lucie Králová’s daring documentary uses a choir and an original libretto to recount the story of the renegade Czech musician

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on rage, sex and insults: ‘There’s an intolerance in society now’

The director and actor talk about identifying with the angry lead in their new film Hard Truths – and why it took Netflix less than a minute to turn the movie down

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