Paul Mescal and Jacob Elordi look great with a man bag. But can Conor Pope pull one off?
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Jacob Elordi
Four new films to see this week: The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Regretting You, and Frankenstein
Josh O’Connor, Jeremy Allen White, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 24th, 2025
Frankenstein film review: Jacob Elordi is a beautiful Creature, but the rest feels crudely sewn together
Director Guillermo del Toro’s innovations and invented characters feel crudely grafted on to the source material
Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro: ‘Mary Shelley was a Protestant girl. I’m a Catholic boy. Big difference’
The director’s quest to adapt Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel has spanned more than 30 years, marked by false dawns and studio politics
The outrage over Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is boiling over. She must be delighted
A marketing masterclass has managed to rectify a problem with the Saltburn release
Barbie Ferreira: ‘Even when I don’t feel confident I feign it, to control the space I’m in’
The actor’s career trajectory offers the perfect blueprint for the polymath, many-platformed nature of modern youthful stardom
The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats ready
Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
Down with this sort of thing: Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has naughty nuns, whips and a thirtysomething Cathy
Sounds disgraceful. When is it out?
The Narrow Road to the Deep North review: Unflinchingly savage war tale starring Ciarán Hinds is a gruelling watch
Television: Justin Kurzel’s first foray into television marks a stark departure from the usual Sunday night staples of cosy crime or bingeworthy drama
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff? That’s not the real story about Emerald Fennell’s new film
Was Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights a person of colour? He might just as well have been Irish
The Sweet East review: Smart and dumb. Fascinating and frustrating. An absolute blast
Sean Price Williams’s directorial debut is like nothing else out there
Smoking hot: The strange story behind the return of cigarettes to the movies
Hugh Linehan: Cillian Murphy puffs his way through Oppenheimer, as Bradley Cooper does through Maestro. Blame cigarettes’ classification as ‘adult content’
Priscilla: Sofia Coppola’s intoxicating film is her best movie in 20 years
All this is presented within the sort of tastefully persuasive package that only Sofia Coppola can manage
Sofia Coppola on Priscilla: ‘People imagine you escape tragedy and loneliness and sadness if you can be rich and famous’
The director has always been interested in the romantic progress of young women. Her new film explores universal traumas that accompany first love
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