The Lobster

What does Love Island have in common with a surrealist dystopia? Quite a lot, actually

Society is obsessed with happily ever afters, and it’s not just on reality TV shows that walking out alone makes you a loser

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

12, Jul, 2018 @6:00 PM

Future romance: how science fiction is predicting our relationships

The contemplative indie Marjorie Prime is the latest in a long line of sci-fi films and TV shows that explore how we might date and love in the future

Arielle Bernstein

16, Aug, 2017 @10:00 AM

Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death'

In her most successful decade, the actor talks family, ‘surrealist’ politics and the perils of marrying James Bond

Emma Brockes

10, Jun, 2017 @8:00 AM

Oscar winners 2017: the full list

All the winners from the 89th Academy Awards

Guardian film

28, Feb, 2017 @7:15 AM

La La Land equals record for most Oscar nominations

Movie musical continues impressive awards season with 14 nods, Moonlight and Arrival trail with eight and #OscarsSoWhite controversy averted – this year at least

Catherine Shoard

24, Jan, 2017 @1:41 PM

Nicole Kidman to join Colin Farrell in Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos' thriller

The Oscar-winner is in talks to play the Irish actor’s wife in supernatural revenge film The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Benjamin Lee

16, Jun, 2016 @10:21 AM

Colin Farrell reuniting with The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos

The Killing of a Sacred Deer focuses on the friendship between a surgeon and a teenage boy with sinister consequences

Benjamin Lee

11, May, 2016 @12:06 PM

This week’s film events

High-Rise and Ben Wheatley Q&A | Overnight film festival

Steve Rose

26, Feb, 2016 @1:00 PM

The Martian; The Lobster; Pan; The Show of Shows; Le Pont du Nord – review

Matt Damon’s everyman starman deserves an Oscar. And beneath Yorgos Lanthimos’s fantastical The Lobster lies a beating heart

Guy Lodge

07, Feb, 2016 @7:00 AM

The film predictions we got right – and wrong – in our 2015 preview

We were correct about the likely quality of new movies by Andrew Haigh and Noah Baumbach – but miles off the mark when we predicted future classics from Cameron Crowe and Gus Van Sant

Benjamin Lee

24, Dec, 2015 @8:00 AM

Carol leads nominations for UK Critics' Circle awards

Todd Haynes’s forbidden-romance drama emerges as main contender, with seven nods, followed by 45 Years, Mad Max, The Revenant and Steve Jobs

Andrew Pulver

15, Dec, 2015 @5:55 PM

European Film Awards: Michael Caine and Charlotte Rampling lead British success at politically-charged ceremony

Both actors took two awards at the annual Oscars alternative, which saw UK talent dominate and European film luminaries calling for multicultural solidarity

Benjamin Lee in Berlin

13, Dec, 2015 @9:42 AM