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Gay best friend: a history of Hollywood’s favourite queer character
What’s often been a patronising and reductive archetype is given depth in a new season of films in time for Pride month
Guy Lodge
02, Jun, 2023 @4:00 PM
Clapped out: do film festival standing ovations really mean anything?
Coverage of this year’s Cannes premieres has been dominated by how many minutes attendees are on their feet but the results are often meaningless
Guy Lodge
24, May, 2023 @2:00 PM
Streaming: Cocaine Bear and the best ‘so bad they’re good’ films
Farcical thriller Cocaine Bear – about a drugged-up bear on the loose – follows in the knowingly naff footsteps of Snakes on a Plane, Sharknado and more
Guy Lodge
20, May, 2023 @7:00 AM
Streaming: the best winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or
Twenty-one films will vie for the top spot at the 76th Cannes film festival, which starts next week, hoping to join the roll call of past classics, from Taxi Driver and M*A*S*H to Parasite
Guy Lodge
06, May, 2023 @7:00 AM
How can I decide what to watch on TV and stop scrolling?
Guilty of endlessly checking the menu and flipping channels? Stop and commit to a show that catches your eye, don’t binge and be cautious when sharing your streaming account
Guy Lodge
23, Apr, 2023 @3:00 PM
Streaming: the best holiday romance films
Netflix’s featherweight A Tourist’s Guide to Love follows a familiar arc, but there’s more to fall for in classics from Summertime to The Green Ray
Guy Lodge
22, Apr, 2023 @7:00 AM
Streaming: Babylon and the best films about Hollywood
Damien Chazelle’s three-hour ode to Tinseltown debauchery joins classic films about Hollywood from Sunset Boulevard to Barton Fink and Adaptation
Guy Lodge
01, Apr, 2023 @7:00 AM
Streaming: the best farming films
Award-winning Catalan peach farm drama Alcarràs joins an impressive crop of movies about living off the land, from Minari and The Grapes of Wrath to Babe
Guy Lodge
25, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
Streaming: the best films about motherhood
This Mother’s Day weekend, let’s celebrate self-sacrificing, feuding, exhausted, loving screen mums, from Stella Dallas to Lady Bird, Mommie Dearest to 20th Century Women
Guy Lodge
18, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘Eighty-nine perfect minutes’: 30 of the best short films and novels
Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time
12, Mar, 2023 @10:00 AM
‘A24 finds the zeitgeist and sets the trend’: how a small indie producer came to dominate the Oscars
Everything Everywhere All at Once raked in $100m and is tipped to win big at the Academy Awards. If it does, that caps quite a decade for the hip New York firm credited with getting young viewers into the arthouse. What’s its secret?
Guy Lodge
11, Mar, 2023 @11:55 AM
Streaming: the best Michelle Yeoh films
Ahead of tomorrow night’s Academy Awards, we look back at the best actress contender’s long, varied career, from Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger to this year’s Oscar favourite, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Guy Lodge
11, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
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