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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
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    HTSI guest editor Celine Song on the beauty of inconvenience

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  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
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    Pineapples, butterflies and Elvis impersonators populate the work of the Filipino-Canadian artist and filmmaker, on show at Frieze New York

    Stephanie Comilang sits in her Berlin studio, wearing a blue denim outfit, against colourful woven textile backdrops.
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
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    Why does a postwar British film season leave out all the classics?

    The BFI’s ‘Great Expectations’ line-up showcases neglected gems from an era dominated by Powell, Pressburger and the Ealing comedy

    A man with a tense expression holds a telephone receiver inside a phone booth, seen through its window.
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
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    Six films to watch this week

    Back to the catwalk with ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’; ‘Severance’ star Adam Scott in Irish-set horror ‘Hokum’; Belgian boxing drama ‘Wild Foxes’; Japanese chiller ‘Exit 8’; Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in intense two-hander ‘Mother Mary’; a CIA man reveals all in ‘The Last Spy’. Reviews by Jonathan Romney & Danny Leigh

  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Six films to watch this week
    Wild Foxes — Belgian boxing drama targets the male psyche

    A young champ in the making begins to have panic attacks in this psychologically involved film

    A boxer in blue headgear and a blue tank top sticks out their tongue while wearing a mouthguard in a boxing gym.
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Six films to watch this week
    Hokum — Adam Scott elevates Irish-set horror screaming with chutzpah

    The ‘Severance’ star plays a writer holed up in an off-season hotel in this self-mocking but genuinely macabre tale

    Adam Scott stands in a wood-paneled room holding a lantern, looking at his reflection in a mirror.
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Six films to watch this week
    The Devil Wears Prada 2 — bland new look isn’t a patch on the 2006 collection

    Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are together again for a flashy but less zinging reunion

  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
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    The Devil Wears Prada 2: celebration of fashion magazines, or an elegy?

    The much-hyped sequel with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway revisits an industry past its heyday

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
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    Dree Hemingway: ‘My most Sagittarius trait is my bluntness’

    The actor and model loves Catherine Tate, cashmere sweaters and her Panthère de Cartier watch

  • Sunday, 26 April, 2026
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    Michael Jackson biopic is hit with audiences despite critical backlash

    ‘Michael’ earns $217mn on opening weekend in boon for Lionsgate, Universal and the late singer’s estate

    Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in a scene from ‘Michael’
  • Thursday, 23 April, 2026
    Six films to watch this week
    Mother Mary — a knowingly overblown paean to pop and power

    Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel give life to David Lowery’s two-hander about a star singer and her costumier before its ideas unravel

  • Thursday, 23 April, 2026
    Six films to watch this week
    The Last Spy — a veteran CIA operative tells all

    Peter Sichel, who headed the postwar Berlin branch, offers insight on Iran and beyond with charm and pragmatism

    Peter Sichel in close-up, wearing glasses and a dark sweater, looking thoughtful.
  • Thursday, 23 April, 2026
    Six films to watch this week
    Exit 8 — Japanese horror riffs on the nightmare of commuting

    The Tokyo subway is the scene for Genki Kawamura’s bracingly weird video game adaptation

    A man and a young boy stand in a tiled underground passageway, both looking ahead with serious expressions.
  • Thursday, 23 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    How did a film about kabuki break box-office records in Japan?

    Nobody expected ‘Kokuho’ to become the country’s highest-grossing domestic live-action movie of all time — not even its makers

    A stern-looking middle-aged man in a man’s kimono stands between two androgynous kabuki actors in elaborate costumes and make-up, a hand on each of their shoulders.
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Michael Jackson biopic ‘Michael’ is a stilted waxwork of a movie

    Antoine Fuqua’s film has bullying, bravura music and a haunting CGI Bubbles but does little to illuminate the man or his genius

  • Saturday, 18 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Interview. Actor Tahar Rahim: ‘I didn’t want to become someone I wouldn’t like’

    The French star of ‘A Prophet’ and new series ‘Prisoner’ talks about dodging stereotypes, choosing risk over comfort and what he learnt from ‘Madame Web’

    Tahar Rahim sits against a wooden-paneled wall, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Rebuilding — Josh O’Connor is terrific in Colorado wildfire drama

    A cattle rancher loses everything but reconnects with his daughter, played by a superb Lily LaTorre

    A man in a cowboy hat and a young girl sit side by side on wooden steps outside a trailer, both looking thoughtfully into the distance.
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Glenrothan — Brian Cox’s directorial debut about estranged brothers is surprisingly sweet

    The ‘Succession’ actor also stars as a distillery owner alongside Alan Cumming in this gentle, Highlands-set comedy

    Sandy and Donal stand facing each other in a barrel warehouse, surrounded by stacked whisky casks.
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Kiss of the Spider Woman — Jennifer Lopez is at full tilt in Argentine prison musical

    Bill Condon’s adaptation emphasises the song-and-dance and moves away from the politics

    A performer in a white suit and fedora, with bright red lipstick, poses under a spotlight on a dark set beside a large film camera.
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    The Wizard of the Kremlin — a weird and wayward portrait of Putin’s rise

    Jude Law plays the politician and Paul Dano his adviser in Olivier Assayas’s glitchy adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli’s bestseller

  • Tuesday, 14 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    How the Michael film premiere kept Jackson’s critics at bay

    A weekend-long Berlin event showed that fan ecstasy can be harnessed to drown out controversy — and journalists

    Jaafar Jackson, dressed as Michael Jackson in a red jacket, smiles while standing in front of several people.
  • Monday, 13 April, 2026
    Watches and Jewellery: April
    The chequered history of Steve McQueen’s Le Mans watches

    As another example of the Heuer Monaco comes up for auction, debate continues over how many the actor wore in the 1971 film

    Steve McQueen adjusts his helmet and racing suit while surrounded by crew members during filming of ‘Le Mans’.
  • Monday, 13 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    When did marriage become the stuff of horror?

    From Netflix series to indie cinema, marriage has become a matter of life and death — reflecting a generation’s anxieties around matrimony

    Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin, shown in close-up wearing a white veil, with a serious expression.
  • Saturday, 11 April, 2026
    Alexander Kluge
    Obituary. Alexander Kluge, German intellectual, 1932-2026

    The writer and filmmaker posed uncomfortable questions about the country’s past

    Alexander Kluge holds a cigarette and looks thoughtful in a close-up black and white portrait from 1971.
  • Saturday, 11 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    How Streep and Wintour dealt with the Devil — and won

    A long-awaited sequel tells us that this is the season of the septuagenarian 

    Jo Ellison
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