Nobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actors

The Send Help director is best known for horror but his roots lie in comedy and no-budget shorts shot with pals in 1970s Detroit

Plus: The director of which sequence has just stepped up as the first lady’s official chronicler?

As well as being touched by the sweetness of the stories, anyone ignorant about deafness will get an education

Sam Raimi’s genre-skipping desert-island satire gives Rachel McAdams room to be charming, vicious and unsettling in equal measure

Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026

If this supposed documentary weren’t about what it’s actually about, it could at times play as an unlikely meditation aid

The Liverpudlian comedian on inspiring Bradley Cooper’s new film Is This Thing On?

Plus: What song plays under the Walt Disney logo at the start of their films?

News that the food guru is to join the Channel 4 cookery show has sent journalists crackers

This portrayal of the creation of Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, celebrates Frenchness at its most proudly awkward

Director Bradley Cooper’s approach takes us closer to an improv night than a session of disciplined joke-telling

Jessie Buckley’s Bafta nomination confirms her as strong favourite for the best-actress award

The Rip star says Netflix tells film-makers to repeat the plot a few times, for the benefit of doom-scrolling audiences

Paul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026