Culture | The Guardian US1h ago
The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/18/the-unknown-review-lea-seydoux-arthur-harari #CannesFilmFestival #Film #HorrorFilms #LaSeydoux #DramaFilms #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #FilmAdaptations #ComicsAndGraphicNovels #Culture #Festivals
The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror

Cannes film festival: A man is terrified to wake up in Seydoux’s body in this metempsychotic mystery film about gender identity

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Culture | The Guardian US4h ago
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/maverick-the-epic-adventures-of-david-lean-review-a-dashing-retrospective-for-a-cinematic-titan #CannesFilmFestival #Film #DocumentaryFilms #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #Festivals
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan

Cannes film festival: Barnaby Thompson’s documentary on the great British director is an exhilarating delve into the ebb and flow of Lean’s peerless career and sometimes complex personal life – with a grand cast of talking heads

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I Want More Subtle Horror_ A Silent Hill Video Essay

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I Want More Subtle Horror_ A Silent Hill Video Essay

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Culture | The Guardian US3d ago
All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/15/all-of-a-sudden-review-care-home-ryusuke-hamaguchi-cannes #CannesFilmFestival #Film #DramaFilms #Japan #Paris #AsiaPacific #Culture #Festivals #France #Europe #WorldNews #FilmAdaptations #Books
All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good

Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity

The Guardian
Culture | The Guardian USMay 5
The Odyssey: trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/05/the-odyssey-first-trailer-christopher-nolan-classical-greek-epic-released-online #TheOdyssey #Film #ChristopherNolan #Homer #FilmAdaptations #MattDamon #TomHolland #RobertPattinson #AnneHathaway #Books #Culture #WorldNews
The Odyssey: trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online

Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope

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Culture | The Guardian USApr 27
The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/27/the-sheep-detectives-review-hugh-jackman #Film #ComedyFilms #FilmAdaptations #HughJackman #CrimeFilms #EmmaThompson #ChrisOdowd #JuliaLouisdreyfus #PatrickStewart #BryanCranston #Books #Comedy #Culture #TelevisionRadio
The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper

Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder

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Culture | The Guardian USMar 10
Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/10/project-hail-mary-review-ryan-goslings-charm-carries-unserious-last-ditch-space-mission #Film #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #ComedyFilms #RyanGosling #FilmAdaptations #TheMartian #Books #Comedy #Culture
Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission

Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable

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Culture | The Guardian USMar 9
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/why-train-dreams-should-win-the-best-picture-oscar #Film #FilmAdaptations #Oscars #Netflix #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JoelEdgerton #FelicityJones #TheNational #WilliamHMacy #Race #AwardsAndPrizes #Books #Culture #Music
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar

With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era

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Culture | The Guardian USMar 4
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/04/the-bride-review-jessie-buckley-christian-bale-frankenstein #Film #DramaFilms #HorrorFilms #JessieBuckley #ChristianBale #MaggieGyllenhaal #AnnetteBening #MaryShelley #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #PenlopeCruz
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 17
Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/17/wuthering-heights-yorkshire-cathy-earnshaw-margot-robbie #WutheringHeights #Film #Yorkshire #Women #Society #FilmIndustry #FilmAdaptations #Culture #Books #Business #UkNews
Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw?

Wuthering Heights is inseparable from its landscape – but northern actors seldom get the lead role, instead are pigeonholed as stereotypical or supporting characters. This Bradford-born actor objects

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