The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho: ‘I love the title. It’s short and sexy’
After winning two Golden Globes, the proudly puzzling thriller is up for the best-picture Oscar. And now the Brazilian president is on the phone
Oscar Isaac
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Patrick Freyne’s top 14 shows to look out for in 2026
Including Lisa McGee’s new Northern comedy How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot and hospital drama The Pitt
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 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
Moon Knight review: Oscar Isaac has drawn the short straw
The best thing about it is Ethan Hawke, as Moon Knight’s nemesis Dr Arthur Harrow
Oscars 2022: This best picture list is even better than the real thing
Here are 10 films that could have been nominated for best picture, but weren’t
Andrea Riseborough: ‘I was shredding a duck and I had a moment of clarity’
She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations: The list in full
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names are among the nominees for the 28th SAG awards
Venice Film Festival: Who will triumph as all eyes turn to the Golden Lion?
Reviews: Paul Mescal and Kristen Stewart among stars featuring in this year’s festival
Oscars 2022: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how next year’s category may look as the industry creaks back into action
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is a hoot – for children and adults
Disney+ tempts back fans with precision-tooled chuckles. Could this be a New Hope?
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