Hokum

Blackly comical folk horror puts Adam Scott in a creepy Irish hotel

Wild Foxes

Energetic French-Belgian drama looks at machismo among young boxers

Apex

Riveting wilderness thriller with Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton

Departures

Engaging, sharply pointed British drama traces an offbeat relationship

The Last One for the Road

Delightful Italian comedy-drama follows friends from pub to pub

Mother Mary

Emotive drama meets bonkers ghost story with Michaela & Anne

Michael’s Battlefield
29.APR: Jordan teams up with McQuarrie to adapt videogame Battlefield for the big screen.
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Hudson & Bardem will lead long-distance romcom Hello & Paris
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Howery leads comedy PEAKING
Statham/Ayer reteam for JOHN DOE
Long, Perlman, Shum in HELHOUND
Klementieff leads MISTER action
Mcfarlane & Feore to DEEP BLUE
Degeneres' Dory is returning
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Cynthia is Mama
26.APR: Erivo & Rametsi are Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masakela in Graceland band bio The Road Home
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Watts & Trush lead ballet biopic Margot & Rudi, plus Grant & Walter
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Powell up for THEM! remake
McCarthy & Storrie in TURPENTINE
Ora joins Gyllenhaal's HONEYMOON
Nanjiani in GREEN BANK horror
Jones & Cube for OUTSIDE MAN
Lathan & Touissant in BUTTERFLY
O'Dowd & Burr for BENDER comedy
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Cate is Martha
19.APR: Blanchett will star in Good Thing, Bravo's biopic of ex-con lifestyle guru Martha Stewart
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Cooper will write, direct and star with Robbie in Ocean's Eleven prequel
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Seyfried, Zegler, Groff in OCTET
Moore joins Theron's TYRANT
Dornan & Winslet up for GOLLUM
Cage back for another LONGLEGS
Gadot & Fisher for BITCOIN drama
PADDINGTON 4 is in the works
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8 May:
THE SHEEP DETECTIVES
KOKUHO
ROMERIA
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
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15 May:
THE CHRISTOPHERS
OBSESSION
NORMAL
JIMPA
DIAMONDS
ORPHAN
THE ACTIVIST
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22 May:
THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU
FINDING EMILY
THE SALT PATH
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC
LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
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29 May:
POWER BALLAD
BACKROOMS
FAIRYLAND
THE LAST VIKING
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Across the sea
DANCE
We Caliban offers a a twist on The Tempest at Sadler's Wells East...

More relevant than ever
INTERVIEW: Writer-director Bill Condon and actor Tonatiuh talk about Kiss of the Spider Woman...

April TV Roundup
SCREEN: Beef 2, Jury Duty 2, Bridgerton 4, Starfleet Academy, Bait, The Madison, Paradise 2 and more...

Dancing in the streets
DANCE
Dorrance Dance's explosive The Center Will Not Hold at Sadler's Wells...

Don’t fence me in
STAGE
Stephen Brower brings Palatable Gay Robot to Udderbelly Blvd London...

Shadows @ 40th BFI Flare
FESTIVAL: LGBTQIA+ festivities take over the Southbank 18-29 March...

A question of faith
STAGE
Where There Is No Time grapples fashion, at Seven Dials until 28 Mar...

Rich’s Best & Worst of 2025
THE 45th SHADOWS AWARDS
More lists than you can count...

A season of Italian films
FESTIVAL: Diving into a special programme from BFI and Cinecittà...

February TV Roundup
SCREEN: The Beauty, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things 5, The Night Manager 2, Wonder Man, Industry 4, more...

Grounded in Indian soil
INTERVIEW: Chatting with filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade about his acclaimed romance Cactus Pears...

Remember my name
DANCE
Pina Bausch's Sweet Mambo premieres at Sadler's Wells, until 21st Feb...

Married to the job
STAGE
Gecko's sparky The Wedding explores social contracts, at Sadler's East...

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STAGE: Beauty and the Beast panto
STAGE: Boys in the Buff, Golden Goose
NOV TV: Boots, Only Murders, Chad...
DANCE: Ebony Scrooge, Sadler's East
STAGE: The Great Christmas Feast
STAGE: The Fit Prince at King's Head
STAGE: RVT riotoius panto Growled
STAGE: Brick Lane Music Hall's Magic
DANCE: Ballet Black's Shadows
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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Michael

Thinly drawn but entertaining biopic covers Michael Jackson up to 1988

Omaha

Warmly moving family road-trip drama starring John Magaro

Exit 8

Claustrophobic Japanese thriller set in a freaky inescapable metro station

The Activist

Thoughtful thriller from Lithuania centres around LGBTQ protesters

Broken Bird

Blackly comical British thriller is both beautiful and very grim

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Over-familiar but cute romcom with Rege-Jean Page and Halle Bailey

Normal

Familiar but enjoyable small-town action comedy with Bob Odenkirk

Rebuilding

Josh O'Connor is excellent in this quiet drama set after a wildfire

Balls Up

Witty but unfunny rude comedy with Mark Wahlberg & Paul Walter Hauser

Erupcja

Uneven improvisational Polish romantic comedy with Charli XCX

Almost Us

Phoenix-set romantic drama is entertaining and a bit awkward

You, Me & Tuscany

Over-familiar but cute romcom with Rege-Jean Page and Halle Bailey

Hamlet

Riz Ahmed is solid amid a mix of modern-day grit and archaic words

Undertone

Podcast horror has a superb dread-inducing sound mix but isn't scary

ChaO

Visually inventive Japanese anime is a wildly fantastical slapstick romcom

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HEADS OR TAILS?
PIZZA MOVIE
THEY WILL KILL YOU
D IS FOR DISTANCE
HOLY DAYS
MR BURTON
A MAGNIFICENT LIFE
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I Swear

Engaging award-winning biopic about a British Tourette's campaigner

Rose of Nevada

Offbeat haunted boat spookiness with George MacKay & Callum Turner

Cherri

Involving Cuban drama about an overweight dancer with no regrets

Diamanti

Dazzling Ozpetek drama highlights the work of Italian costume makers

Wasteman

Over-familiar but cute romcom with Rege-Jean Page and Halle Bailey

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Jude Law and Paul Dano lead this skilfully fictionalised Putin biopic

Colours of Time

Inventive French drama cleverly explores the past and present

Mirrors No 3

Paula Beer leads another involving, subtly nuanced drama from Germany

Eagles of the Republic

Lively comedy about Egyptian politics shifts into a darkly involving thriller

California Schemin’

Energetic and hugely engaging true story about Scottish rappers

The Stranger

Ozon's gorgeously shot and performed film of the Camus classic

The Christophers

Clever art-world comedy-drama with Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen

Father Mother Sister
Brother
Jim Jarmusch's all-star triptych astutely explores family dynamics

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OUTCOME
NIGHT STAGE
DJ AHMET
SPLITSVILLE
ORWELL: 2+2=5
THE LAST BLOSSOM
UNDERLAND
TWO PROSECUTORS
LA GRAZIA
DEAD MAN'S WIRE
THE GOOD BOY
ARCO
LATE SHIFT
BROKEN ENGLISH
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
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