- May 25, 2025
The 12 Cannes films you need to know about
Rebecca Laurence, Hugh Montgomery and Nicholas Barber This year’s Cannes Film Festival finishes today – and from the hundreds of
Jafar Panahi’s ‘taut revenge thriller’ becomes frontrunner to take Cannes’ top prize
Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival After years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns
How Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated winner of the best-picture Oscar
Alamy When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood’s idea of a mainstream hit.
How history’s brutal witch trials still resonate now
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly
The horror film that traumatised millennials
Alamy Twenty-five years ago, the first instalment terrified by making everyday scenarios into death traps. Now, after a 14-year break,
The provocative Estonian pop song that has caused outrage in Italy
Alina Pyazok One of the most controversial entries in the Eurovision song contest is Espresso Macchiato by Estonia’s Tommy Cash.
The lost 1934 novel that gave a chilling warning about the horrors of Nazi Germany
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Published years before WW2, Sally Carson’s prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small
How black men have used flamboyant fashion to express pride and resistance
Tyler Mitchell (Credit: Tyler Mitchell) This year’s Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black “dandy” style, and
10 of the best TV shows to watch this May
Serenity Strull/ BBC From Tina Fey’s new relationship comedy to an action drama from the creator of Lost, and the
How Aldrich Ames became the US’s most damaging double agent
Getty Images Aldrich Ames spent nearly a decade selling secret information to the Soviet Union, compromising more than 100 clandestine