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The actor on getting back on the Priscilla bus, ‘horrible’ characters and the most profound thing anyone has ever said to him

DreamWorks’ animation addresses complex moral questions in exhilarating, raffish style.

David Cronenberg explores the burials of the future in a personal, nightmarish meditation on tech and flesh in new film The Shrouds.

“Dying is an act of eroticism,” suggested one of the many disposable characters in David Cronenberg’s first full-length feature, Shivers (1975), and that slippery adage could sum up more than a few of...

The director draws on the loss of his own wife for the story of a bereaved owner of a future-facing cemetery

David Cronenberg’s macabre modern love story stars Vincent Cassel as a widowed cemetery owner who invents grave cams for the grieving as a way to make sense of his loss.

But then, a year later, I realized that I did get it, and I did like it, and wanted to make the movie. And so it came together in the kind of fusing of…

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The brilliant 'Ballad of Wallis Island' tells the story of an eccentric winner who forks out to bring his favourite band back together. But the question remains, who would stars Tom Basden, Tim Key…

Carey Mulligan at her most magnetic plays one half of an estranged folk duo booked by lonely superfan Tim Key in what deserves to be this summer’s breakout hit

I think The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best British romcom since I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), which it closely resembles.

The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig.

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Cure director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest Japanese chiller, Cloud, is out now in UK cinemas. Read Empire's review.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest treads similar thematic territory to his prescient 2001 cyberhorror, through the prism of an e-commerce, vengeance-fuelled thriller.

First date and phone app paranoia runs wild in a suspense thriller from Happy Death Day creator Christopher Landon. Our review of Drop…

The White Lotus, The Perfect Couple and now 2025’s hottest horror: Meghann Fahy can’t miss