The Dog Stars director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of Canada

Josh Brolin co-stars in Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s bestselling pandemic novel

Now an elder statesman of cinema, the film-maker returns with a ‘sex-positive love letter to Gen Z’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invited re-evaluation of the movement’s first iteration – there is no suggestion the entire project is being trashed

Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Isla Fisher, RuPaul and Ginger Minj feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 21st, 2026

Sorry project may remind Hollywood that Isla Fisher’s talents have yet to be made the most of

Plus: What was the first film Woody Allen directed in which he did not appear?

This zesty film makes the best use yet of Looney Tunes’ immortal characters on the big screen

In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Schoenbrun brings Gillian Anderson, cinematic references and their own relationship to sex to the table

One can hardly imagine a better example of a mid-August story than this week’s report poking fun at Harry Potter fans

Anne Hathaway, Sian Clifford, Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Dominic Sessa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 14th, 2026

Plus: How well do you know the Ocean’s Eleven cast?

Sian Clifford does not hold back grandness of her gestures in satire of the eccentric gentry

It might be a stretch to describe the film as a pastiche of Steven Spielberg, but the echoes are unmistakable

Glenn Close, Emily Matthews, Mason Thames and Katy O’Brian feature in quartet of movies released in the week of August 7th, 2026