Pressure

Involving, tense D-Day drama with Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott

Just an Illusion

Rapid-fire dialog makes this French coming-of-age comedy a lot of fun

The Condor Daughter

Gently gripping midwife drama from Bolivia is beautiful and moving

Blue Film

Contained drama explores themes of sexuality, attraction and perversion

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Shimmering biopic about the legendary American jazz musician

Don’t Look Back in Anger

Rhapsodic film follows Oasis on their triumphant 2025 reunion tour

The spirit of Colman
9.SEP: Domingo, Streep & Hader join Hanks in live/animated Lincoln in the Bardo.
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Madigan joins Hanks, Turner, Clarkson in Heller's Comebacker
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Huller is Hermdorf in WORK biopic
Cotillard & Bardem in DOOR
Freeman & Keaton team for RUIN
Longoria leads MARCELO film
Navarette in WAFFLE HOUSE horror
Leo joins Smith in SUPERMAX thriller
Firstman is animated JIM QUEEN
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Anne hits the track
2.SEP: Hathaway will join Cruise in Levine's 38-years-later sequel to Days of Thunder.
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Bailey, Dafoe & Dinklage join Hanks in live-action/animated Lincoln
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Momoa & Teller in COPPERHEAD
Wahlberg for THE OPERATOR action
Layne, Hemsworth to DEADLOCKED
A'Zion, Bardem, Ferguson are WET
Dornan joins Kravitz in DIE ALIVE
Lee, Park, Hwang reteam for CLUB
Ramirez to costar in MIAMI VICE '85
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Ryan the caveman
30.AUG: Gosling will produce and perhaps play Bamm-Bamm in a new live-action Flintstones movie
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Hedges, Schwartzenegger & Viswanathan lead Birbiglia comedy
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Fassbender's 3rd ALIEN prequel
Clarkson to Hanks' COMEBACKER
Wiest & Hinds have OLD LOVE
Weaving & Braun in HIVEMIND
Reid & Pemberton in SCISSOR
Smith, Jones, Hale join SNOOP bio
Martin costars in HOMBRE AL AGUA
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18 Sep:
SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF...
QUEEN AT SEA
APRIL X
DE GAULLE: LIBERTE
KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER...
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25 Sep:
FORGOTTEN ISLAND
HEART OF THE BEAST
PRIMETIME
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
HER PRIVATE HELL
BABYSTAR
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL
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2 Oct:
DIGGER
VERITY
CHILD
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9 Oct:
THE SOCIAL RECKONING
THE UPRISING
THE YELLOW TIE
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
THE LOST CHILDREN OF TUAM
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16 Oct:
WHALEFALL
WINTER OF THE CROW
CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN'
CASE 137
HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL
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Shadows @ Venice Film Fest
FESTIVAL: 2-12 Sep in Italy...

Shadows @ 27th FrightFest
FESTIVAL: 27-31 August in London...

Shadows at the Fringe
FESTIVAL: 15 reviews over five days in Edinburgh 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

August TV Roundup
SCREEN: Ride or Die, The Bear 5,
Tip Toe, Widow's Bay, Spider-Noir,
The Vampire Lestat and more...

Feel the heat
DANCE
Matthew Bourne's sexy, thrilling The Car Man, Sadler's Wells until 29 Aug...

Art, absinthe and anarchy
STAGE
The Lost Estate immerses us in 1890s Paris for Chat Noir! all summer...

We are world beating
STAGE
LegalAliens' entertaining, important Ali in Wonder(Eng)land, Jacksons Lane...

A place to call home
STAGE
The bracingly pointed Blue Mist is on a national tour until 30th July...

Naked villany
STAGE
Nicolás Pérez Costa's high-octane Richard III at the Cockpit...

Making each other laugh
INTERVIEW: Chatting over coffee in Annecy with Minions & Monsters filmmakers Pierre, Chris and Brian...

Myth, memory and bad ideas
STAGE
Hideki Noda's expansive, dazzling
–320°F at Sadler's Wells for 10 days...

June TV Roundup
SCREEN: Half Man, The Four Seasons 2, The Comeback 3, finales of Hacks, Euphoria, The Boys, and more...

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

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Shadows @ Raindance Film Fest
DANCE: Phoenix's Interplay
DANCE: Acosta Danza Yunior
APR TV: Beef, Jury Duty, Bridgerton...
DANCE: Ballets Trockadero on tour
STAGE: Return of the Godz, Peacock
Shadows @ SXSW London
STAGE: Brecht's Arturo Ui, RSC Swan
DANCE:Remachine at Sadler's East
DANCE: Bullyache's A Good Man
INTERVIEW: Kiss of the Spider Woman
DANCE: We Caliban, Sadler's East
DANCE: The Center Will Not Hold
STAGE: Palatable Gay Robot
Shadows @ BFI Flare
FEB TV: The Beauty, Heated Rivalry...
STAGE: Where There Is No Time
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The Death of Robin Hood

Dark, grisly thriller catches up with Hugh Jackman as the aging outlaw

Gail Daughtry and the
Celebrity Sex Pass
Cheeky pastiche is packed with stars hilariously poking fun at themselves

The Girl in the River

Engaging but cliche-packed procedural crime thriller

I Want Your Sex

Enjoyably colourful, lusty comedy with Charli XCX and Cooper Hoffman

Finding Emily

Charming British romcom with great music and a very predictable plot

Colony

Tense action thriller set in a Seoul highrise. With marauding zombies

Stop! That! Train!

Hilariously stupid Airplane! parody starring fabulous drag queens

Nimrods

Lively Green Day comedy sends three dopey teen rockers on the road

Holy Days

Kiwi road comedy features Judy, Miriam and Jacki as boisterous nuns

Franz

Artfully ambitious but fractured biopic about the legendary Franz Kafka

Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie

The pups' new adventure takes them to an island with cute dinosaurs

Songs of Forgotten Trees

Delicate Indian drama explores social issues with sharp wit and insight

The Summer Book

Glenn Close positively glows in this warm, nostalgia-filled Finnish drama

Super Troopers 3

Those Broken Lizard chuckleheads are back for another ridiculous romp

Love Me Tender

Vicky Krieps is excellent in this French drama about a struggling mother

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DO US PART
BOUCHRA
THE WEIRD KIDZ
THE GENTLEMAN THIEF
MIDDLE LIFE
ANIMAL FARM
CHICKENHARE AND THE SECRET...
SOUR PARTY
BRUNELLO: GRACIOUS VISIONARY
A YEAR IN LONDON
SON OF THE SOIL
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La Femme Infidèle

Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe are terrific in this fizzy comedy-drama

Late Fame

Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe are terrific in this fizzy comedy-drama

Leviticus

Earthy, honest themes elevate this chilling Aussie dramatic horror

The Last Blossom

Eye-catching Japanese animated drama has a musical sensibility

Supernature

Beautiful documentary shot on home movies by people all over the world

Bitter Christmas

Almodovar is back with another gorgeous exploration of creativity

Coyote vs Acme

Riotously entertaining live-action/animated action comedy

De Gaulle: Resistance

Fascinating, thrilling biopic of the French leader is part one of two

Boorman and the Devil

Witty and superbly well-made doc explores British filmmaker's career

Teenage Sex and Death at
Camp Miasma
Surreal meta-slasher movie with Hannah Einbinder & Gillian Anderson

The Magic Faraway Tree

Enjoyably offbeat film adaptation of Blyton's British family fantasy

Tony

Involving 1970s-set coming of age with Dominic Sessa & Emilia Jones

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Tom Holland shines in a grounded, thrilling superhero adventure

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ON THE SEA
ISH
MUSTACHE
WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA
TOMORROW'S TOO LATE
HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL
ASK E JEAN
THE ODYSSEY
HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER
THE LAST FIRST TIME
THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD
SHOOT THE PEOPLE
MINIONS & MONSTERS
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW...
A PRIVATE LIFE
DRUNKEN NOODLES
ROMERIA
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S NIGHT & DAY
TOY STORY 5
ROSE OF NEVADA
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