Film

Olivia Cooke: ‘There aren’t a lot of working-class actors’

The star actor talks about Hollywood and home, and refusing to be typecast as a ‘northern actress’

The genre-hopping director whose early success remains unmatched

Is the Spinal Tap film-maker about to turn it up to 11 with the mockumentary sequel – or will it be Stonehenge revisited?

David Simon on the ‘fear, greed and repetition’ of Hollywood

The man behind The Wire is one of TV’s greatest auteurs – but he despairs of the medium’s future

How Hollywood lost the plot

For well over a decade, major film studios have pumped out soulless sequels. Have writers and directors finally found a way to change the narrative?

Nepo parent Daniel Day-Lewis: just another dad who can’t say no?

The triple Oscar winner has come out of retirement to star in Anemone, a film directed by his son, Ronan

Bob Odenkirk: ‘I wanted the audience'

Before finding fame in Breaking Bad, the actor and writer was already the founding father of American alt comedy

Will Lindsay Lohan’s talent finally be recognised?

All the signs are that the once-troubled star is on the verge of the comeback she deserves

Fire up the DB5, Bond could be licensed to thrill on Gravelly Hill

The Birmingham-born writer Steven Knight has to revive the 007 franchise. What might he be thinking?

‘Monetised standing’: the art of being a film extra

'Monetised standing': the art of being a film extra

Video: ‘She broke the trust’

It is a literary sensation and now a major film. But Ros Hemmings says parts of the book are untrue, and it makes her ‘sick’

What’s in the book, and what The Observer has found

How the ‘true’ story told in the best-seller compares to our reporting

How a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation

The Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The truth behind it is very different

Deborah Levy, outsider author, hits the big screen

The film adaptation of her Booker-nominated novel is the latest step in extraordinary revival and flowering of the writer’s literary career

In too deep: how the Titan sub became the talk of the world

Two years after OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded, killing all of its wealthy passengers, two films have emerged – but does either really get to the truth?

Jaws proves the power of a snappy headline

Fifty years after Spielberg’s film gripped audiences, many fans – like me – are still afraid to go into the water

Warner Bros splits operations to face digital future

David Zaslav is restructuring as viewing habits change and Hollywood takes on the challenge

Up close with the world’s leading intimacy coordinator

Ita O’Brien reveals why respecting the sex scene benefits not just actors, but all of us

Obituary: Marcel Ophuls, the radical Bafta-winning director

It took him two years to make The Sorrow and the Pity, the seminal documentary about French Nazi collaborators, but his heart was still with feature films