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‘So what are you up to tonight?’: meeting Rob Reiner was like a visit from Santa

Within 30 seconds, the director set me completely at ease and – rare for such a Hollywood heavyweight – beamed with pride when I asked about his golden streak

‘A lot of stories but very few facts’: sceptics push back on buzzy UFO documentary

The Age of Disclosure was granted a Capitol Hill screening and has broken digital rental records but does it really offer proof of alien life?

Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 5 – Riefenstahl

Documentary portrait of Hitler’s favourite film-maker is an unsettling parable about what happens when ambition is uncoupled from ethics

Hong Kong Mixtape review – dissident artists keep hope alive in the face of China’s crackdown

San San F Young’s passionate documentary records a vibrant creative scene that continues to resist Beijing’s repression

‘Apocalyptically funny’: why The Mitchells vs the Machines is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers explaining their comfort watches is a celebration of 2021’s acclaimed animated adventure

The Great Flood review – Korean apocalypse movie swerves into sinister sci-fi territory

The storytelling is brittle, but there is still enjoyment to be had from this story of a mother and child and rescue from a catastrophic flood in Seoul

Rob Reiner’s five best films

We remember the key films of the great Hollywood director, who has died, alongside his wife

Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 5 – Marty Supreme

Timothée Chalamet’s livewire striver using ping pong as his ticket out of normie American life is just one of many wonders in this extraordinarily rich tale

The Christmas Dream review – Thailand’s first musical in decades is big on sentimental spectacle

A festive musical blends fairytale optimism with lush orchestration and Sound of Music sweetness – even if this often overwhelms a thin storyline

‘I am not happy with my output!’ Kate Hudson on taking risks, rejecting compromise – and finding her voice at 46

After years as Hollywood’s romcom darling, Hudson is putting music at the centre of her career – and after her show-stealing turn in Song Sung Blue, the Oscar buzz is growing

Director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner found dead at home

Authorities investigating ‘apparent homicide’ after 78-year-old director of Stand By Me and The Princess Bride discovered dead at LA home with wife

Pulp Fiction actor Peter Greene found dead in New York apartment

Greene, 60, praised for the various villains he played during his career but manager says he also had ‘heart as big as gold’

The Guide #221: Endless ticket queues, AI slop and ALL CAPS agony

It was ​12 months of megamergers, manufactured musicians and thrillers stretched thinner than a streamer’s budget​. Join me for some cathartic moaning

Elastic limbs, fantastical accents and crackling sexual chemistry: Dick Van Dyke turns 100

The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment

From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut stars the 96-year-old June Squibb, while Netflix’s lovable tweefest sees its heroine move to Rome

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  • ‘She dreamt bigger than all of us’: is Timothée Chalamet really a Susan Boyle superfan?
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  • The 50 best movies of 2025 in the US: 50 to 3
  • Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 3 – The Ice Tower
  • Warner Bros reportedly poised to reject Paramount’s $108bn hostile takeover bid
  • New details emerge of how Rob and Michele Singer Reiner’s bodies were found
  • ‘A festive tour de force’: Guardian writers on their favorite underrated Christmas movies
  • Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 3 – Young Mothers
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  • Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy review – life gets gamified in one-note Korean sci-fi
  • Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies love age-blind casting?
  • Rob Reiner’s friends Billy Crystal and Larry David remember director together: ‘He was always at the top of his game’
  • Rob Reiner’s son Nick charged with murder of parents
  • Jared Kushner’s firm exits takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery
  • Nick Reiner: what do we know about Rob Reiner’s son who was arrested?
  • Nick Reiner to be charged with first-degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner
  • From Harry Potter to The Crying Game, Susie Figgis’s explosive enthusiasm made her an irreplaceable casting director
  • Disclosure Day: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s star-studded UFO movie
  • The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thriller
  • Being Charlie: the film Rob and Nick Reiner made together offers home truths
  • ‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar
  • The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. But its lessons live on in The Quiet American
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense
  • ‘I could watch the final 30 minutes on a loop till the end of time’: Guardian writers’ favourite Rob Reiner moments
  • Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 4 – Marty Supreme
  • Michael Douglas on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: ‘My half of the producing fee I gave to Dad’
  • Obamas were supposed to meet Rob and Michele Reiner on night of their deaths
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  • ‘I fear electromagnetic catastrophe’: Josh Safdie on Marty Supreme, latent Jewish anxiety and why men are lost

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