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Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom
By Phil Hoad

Director Miro Remo journeys deep into the Czech countryside to find two brothers living an isolated life filled with quixotic wisdom in this surreal documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-review-boozing-bantering-hermits-impart-their-spiritual-wisdom

#Film #Documentaryfilms #Czechia #Filmadaptations #Books #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

Hazy sunshine, factor-50 smiles and Cliff Richard at the wheel: the 20 best summer holiday movies – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/20/best-summer-holiday-movies-ranked-seasonal-romance #Film #Culture #Musicals #RomanceFilms #CliffRichard #FilmAdaptations #AudreyHepburn #BeforeSunrise #AlfonsoCuarn #Books #Music

Hazy sunshine, factor-50 smiles and Cliff Richard at the wheel: the 20 best summer holiday movies – ranked!
By Xan Brooks

From feelgood romances to heated interactions, here are the films that best capture the seasonal moment

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/20/best-summer-holiday-movies-ranked-seasonal-romance

#Film #Culture #Musicals #Romancefilms #CliffRichard #Filmadaptations #AudreyHepburn #BeforeSunrise #AlfonsoCuarn #Books #Music #TheGuardian #XanBrooks

Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
By Peter Bradshaw

Preceding a long-awaited sequel, Griffin Dunne’s supernatural suburban romance gets a big-screen rerelease. With its romcom quirk, buttery cinematography and stabs of black comedy, it remains a zany gem

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/06/practical-magic-review-nicole-kidman-and-sandra-bullocks-90s-witchy-fantasy-still-enchants

#Film #Romancefilms #Comedyfilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #SandraBullock #NicoleKidman #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers
By Cath Clarke

An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/04/prisoners-of-paradise-review-ellie-bamber-chaste-colonial-tale-of-star-crossed-lovers-romesh-gunesekera

#Film #Romancefilms #Filmadaptations #Mauritius #Race #Dramafilms #Africa #Books #Culture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #CathClarke

‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/23/benedict-cumberbatch-20-best-films-ranked #Film #BenedictCumberbatch #ComedyFilms #RomanceFilms #Thrillers #FilmAdaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture

‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked!
By Peter Bradshaw

To mark the two-time Oscar nominee’s recent 50th birthday, we rate his finest screen roles – from hyper-British patricians and seething serpents, to ghastly Yanks, tragic codebreakers and sci-fi scoundrels

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/23/benedict-cumberbatch-20-best-films-ranked

#Film #BenedictCumberbatch #Comedyfilms #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey – and getting a puppy https://www.theguardian.com/film/ng-interactive/2026/jul/17/christopher-nolan-interview-oscars-the-odyssey #TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #MattDamon #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #Oppenheimer #Homer #Books #ChristopherNolan #FilmAdaptations #FilmIndustry #Imax

‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey - and getting a puppy
By Tom Shone

How do you follow Oppenheimer? By spending £250m bringing Homer’s epic poem to the big screen in Imax. Today’s most powerful director talks big swings, trauma-bonding and the healing powers of chocolate labrador Charlie

https://www.theguardian.com/film/ng-interactive/2026/jul/17/christopher-nolan-interview-oscars-the-odyssey

#TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #MattDamon #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #Oppenheimer #Homer #Books #ChristopherNolan #Filmadaptations #Filmindustry #Imax #TheGuardian #TomShone

Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/21/mick-jagger-josh-oconnor-father-new-film-alice-rohrwacher-three-incestuous-sisters #Film #FilmAdaptations #MickJagger #AudreyNiffenegger #JoshOconnor #SaoirseRonan #DakotaJohnson #JessieBuckley #Books #Culture #Music #Italy #Europe #WorldNews

Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/06/hamnet-review-paul-mescal-jessie-buckley-shakespeare-hamlet #Film #Hamnet #FilmAdaptations #MaggieOfarrell #ChloZhao #PaulMescal #JessieBuckley #Hamlet #WilliamShakespeare #EmilyWatson #Books #Culture #Stage

Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/05/steve-review-cillian-murphy-is-outstanding-in-ferocious-reform-school-drama #Torontofilmfestival2025 #Torontofilmfestival #Filmadaptations #CillianMurphy #TraceyUllman #EmilyWatson #Dramafilms #LittleSimz #Festivals #Culture #Books #Music #Film