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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Pat Boonnitipat expected to lose money on his debut film. It’s become an Asian cultural supernova

    The Thai director’s ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ has hit a nerve with its tale of fragmented family

    A young man in a white short-sleeved shirt sitting in a room decorated with framed film posters, with his arm draped over a railing
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Review
    How Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption interrogation tapes became The Bibi Files

    Producer Alex Gibney talks exclusively about turning leaked recordings of police probes into a damning documentary

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  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
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    HTSI editor’s letter: how to become a heartthrob

    Harris Dickinson, Athens wine bars and the big business of darts

    Harris Dickinson wears Kent & Curwen wool jumper, £575. Palace cotton-mix jogging bottoms, £128. Falke cotton socks, £16. Vintage Umbro England jersey (just seen), stylist’s own
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Television
    Can One Hundred Years of Solitude capture magical realism’s spark?

    A Netflix adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel promises grit as well as transcendence

    A woman stands in front of a burning pile of clothes in a scene from a TV series
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    HTSI
    How Harris Dickinson seduced Hollywood

    The ‘chubby kid’ from Walthamstow is now a bona fide heartthrob. But can he play the film star on his own terms?

    Harris Dickinson wears Stone Island wool-mix jumper, £760. Prada cotton shirt, £640
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    A doughnut-sized ring and orcs teleported from a Kiss concert — 60 years of Tolkien on screen

    Animated film ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ is just the latest in a long history of Middle-earth adaptations

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Review
    Six films to watch this week

    Amy Adams channels feral energy in ‘Nightbitch’; Cate Blanchett plays a Merkel-like chancellor in absurdist G7 comedy ‘Rumours’; the skewed surrealism of Zambian-set ‘On becoming a Guinea Fowl’; documentary ‘Nocturnes’ explores moths and the people who study them; ‘Invisible Nation’ reflects on Taiwan’s past, present and uncertain future; Ralph Fiennes stars in ‘Conclave’, adapted from Robert Harris’s papal page-turner — reviews by Danny Leigh and Simran Hans

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl — a dreamlike tale of grief and trauma

    Skeletons fly from the closet at a funeral in Rungano Nyoni’s film of skewed surrealism

    A woman stands looking thoughtful; behind her is a palm-tree frond and a low white building
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Nightbitch — Amy Adams is let loose in wry portrait of motherhood

    The lonely grind of parenting takes feral form in Marielle Heller’s pointedly primal new film

    A woman runs along the middle of a suburban street at night, accompanied by several dogs
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Nocturnes — the unsolved mysteries of the moth

    A gently mesmeric documentary explores these enigmatic insects and the people who study them

    A sheet of fabric is thickly populated by many different species of moth
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Rumours — absurd G7 comedy stars Cate Blanchett as Merkel-like chancellor

    A cast of world leaders are surrounded by zombies in a delirious film that packs a mordant punch

    A smartly dressed woman gazes intensely at a grey-haired man, who is seen from behind
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Black Doves — Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw delight as undercover spies in new Netflix thriller

    There’s no shortage of intrigue and action in new six-part series from ‘Giri/Haji’ showrunner Joe Barton

    A serious-looking man sits at the wheel of a car next to a woman whose face is splattered with blood
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Invisible Nation — a tour de force documentary about Taiwan

    The island’s former president Tsai Ing-wen is the star of a thoughtful study of Taiwan’s past, present and uncertain future

    A woman sits in a room speaking and gesticulating. Behind her stand four large flags of Taiwan
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Interview
    Disney Animation’s new CCO Jared Bush: ‘The goal is to make a timeless film — that’s the bar’

    The maker of ‘Encanto’ and ‘Zootopia’ has scored a $386mn (and counting) hit with ‘Moana 2’ but admits he is ‘the worst artist in the world’

    A man in a leather jacket sits smiling at the camera
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Person in the News
    Jon M Chu, the ‘Wicked’ director uniting America

    The man behind the crowd-pleasing film adaptation of the musical has set a new box office record

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Jon M Chu
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Interview
    Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni on tackling taboos on screen

    The prizewinning director talks about the challenges of making her darkly funny drama ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’

    A woman in a white shirt looks over her shoulder
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Review
    Made in Ethiopia — absorbing study of Chinese investment in Africa

    Nuanced documentary interrogates the lopsided power dynamic between the players

    A group of people stand around a workbench in a factory, closely inspecting an item on the bench
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Review
    All We Imagine As Light — a modern and melancholy portrait of Mumbai life

    Payal Kapadia’s film pulses with the rhythms of the city as it follow the fortunes of a nurse and a hospital receptionist

    A young woman and man stand close together, strap-hanging on a crowded commuter bus
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Conclave — Ralph Fiennes shines in juicy papal succession drama

    Adaptation of Robert Harris’s bestseller is an old-school page-turner-on-screen

    A man wearing cardinal’s robes stands looking anxious amid a crowd of men in priestly clothing
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Senna — racing bio-drama brings tyre-burning thrills to Netflix

    Six-part series about Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is excellent at race sequences but stalls off the track

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Review
    Moana 2 — rocky return to Polynesia as new songs lack buoyancy

    Auliʻi Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson lead a visually joyous sequel that’s poorer for the loss of Lin-Manuel Miranda

    A cartoon drawing of a luminous whale swimming alongside a small sail boat at night
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Beatles ’64 — nostalgic recap of the band’s first US tour is ‘a good laugh’

    Disney+ special presents restored behind-the-scenes footage alongside new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

    Four young men stand on aeroplane staircase smiling and waving to an adoring crowd
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Patti Waldmeir
    What the US can learn from ‘Wicked’

    Glinda and Elphaba’s journey to friendship offers guidance for a fractured America

    Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in  Wicked
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Media
    ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ give Hollywood hope for strong holiday box office

    The two films took in solid global ticket sales over weekend after fallow period for big studios

    Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the film Wicked
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast29 min listen
    Culture chat: ‘Wicked’ hits the high notes

    The much-anticipated film adaptation of the Broadway musical may be this year’s biggest cinematic risk. Does it live up to the hype?

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