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 5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/05/peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man-review-tommy-shelby-returns-for-muddy-bloody-big-screen-showdown #Film #CrimeFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #PeakyBlinders #CillianMurphy #RebeccaFerguson #BarryKeoghan #Birmingham #RomaGypsiesAndTravellers #Culture #TelevisionRadio #UkNews #WorldNews #SecondWorldWar
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown

Cillian Murphy reprises his haunted gang boss in Steven Knight’s muscular film spin-off – as a wartime clash with Nazis and family betrayal pulls him back to Birmingham

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 16
Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/rose-review-sandra-huller-berlin-film-festival-gender-stereotypes #Film #DramaFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Germany #Austria #BerlinFilmFestival #BerlinFilmFestival2026 #Culture #Europe #Festivals #WorldNews
Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes

Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 13
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/13/a-prayer-for-the-dying-review-pestilent-western-feels-like-a-short-stretched-too-long #BerlinFilmFestival2026 #Film #Westerns #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #JohnCReilly #JohnnyFlynn #FilmAdaptations #Books #Culture #Music #BerlinFilmFestival #Festivals
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long

Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance

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Culture | The Guardian USFeb 12
‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/12/blue-boy-trial-japan-trans-history-kasho-iizuka #Film #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Transgender #Japan #AsiaPacific #Culture #Society #WorldNews
‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date

Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment illegal for more than 30 years. He explains why the history remains unfinished

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Culture | The Guardian USJan 23
‘I can understand being brought to your knees’: Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/i-can-understand-being-brought-to-your-knees-amanda-seyfried-on-obsession-devotion-and-the-joy-of-socks #Film #AmandaSeyfried #Culture #DramaFilms #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #Religion
‘I can understand being brought to your knees’: Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks

The Testament of Ann Lee is a bonkers musical fantasia about an obscure religious sect. Its star and writer-director Mona Fastvold talk fear, bonding – and not needing an Oscar

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Culture | The Guardian USJan 20
‘I’d come back to the UK – but I’m not playing a cop’: Oscar-tipped Wunmi Mosaku on sensational vampire smash Sinners https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/20/oscar-tipped-wunmi-mosaku-vampire-hit-sinners #Sinners #Film #Culture #Marvel #Oscars #PeriodAndHistoricalFilms #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #AwardsAndPrizes
‘I’d come back to the UK – but I’m not playing a cop’: Oscar-tipped Wunmi Mosaku on sensational vampire smash Sinners

She grew up on a Manchester council estate. Now she’s gone stratospheric for her pivotal role in Sinners. The star talks about leaving Britain for LA – and the £30 bus trip that changed her life

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Culture | The Guardian USNov 14
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/14/nuremberg-review-russell-crowe-is-top-notch-as-an-on-trial-goring-but-rami-malek-lets-side-down #Periodandhistoricalfilms #MichaelShannon #RichardEGrant #RussellCrowe #Dramafilms #LeoWoodall #RamiMalek #Worldnews #Culture #Nazism #Film #Law
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down

Crowe is wittily cast as the pompous Nazi in this tale from behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials, but Malek is deeply silly as army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley

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Culture | The Guardian USNov 11
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/11/nuremberg-interview-rami-malek-michael-shannon-hermann-goring-russell-crowe #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Secondworldwar #MichaelShannon #RamiMalek #Culture #Nazism #Film
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg

Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today

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Opinion | The Guardian USOct 19, 2025
Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/jane-austen-dark-side-19th-century-life-emma-pride-and-prejudice-wuthering-heights #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Perioddrama(TV) #CharlotteBrontë #EmeraldFennell #AndrewDavies #JaneAusten #Television #Slavery #Culture #UKnews #Books #Drama #Film
Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day

New adaptations of Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights explore slavery, pervy nuns and death in childbirth. Count me in, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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