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After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass, and after Cass tells her their side-gig is nannying, Kalli asks if they can watch her daughter Ari (Ridley Asha Bateman) while she goes out of town for work.

A newly released Bollywood spy thriller is winning praise and raising eyebrows in equal measure in India and Pakistan, over its retelling of bitter tensions between the South Asian neighbours. Sunk in a sepia tone, Dhurandhar, which was released in cinemas last week, is a 3.5-hour-long cross-border political spy drama that takes cinemagoers on a violent and bloody journey through a world of gangsters and intelligence agents set against the backdrop of India-Pakistan tensions.

That's a misleadingly linear description of the film; it's actually cleaved into two parts which would seem back to front if we were following the stories of specific people. The first section observes life in the squat where the residents support each other as they face eviction threats and the bureaucracy of asylum-seeking, while the second part looks on as other people make the rough sea passage.

We open with Millie ( Sydney Sweeney) down on her luck, desperately trying to find a job when Nina Winchester ( Amanda Seyfried) offers her a role as a live-in housemaid. Things start well - Millie copes with Nina's neuroticism and extreme mood swings. She meets Nina's perfect, rich and dishy husband Andrew (Brandon Sklenar) and daughter Cece (Indiana Elle). But good things don't last. Obviously there are some spoilers ahead, read on at your own risk.

The film whose score draws significantly from the 1980s is A24's most expensive yet and a major awards hopeful for its star, director and writer. It also features one of the wildest and most characterful supporting casts ever assembled, including David Mamet, Sandra Bernhard, high-wire artista Philippe Petit, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, the British-Indian academic Pico Iyer, Abel Ferrara and Tyler the Creator.

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Disclosure Day is here, and it will leave you with more questions than answers about what exactly is going on. There is no denying that something strange is happening to a Kansas City newscaster (Emily Blunt) who goes into a strange trance on-air in Disclosure Day 's new trailer.

Almost immediately after the first movie hit theaters, there was a video game, plans for a book series that never came to fruition, and announcements for multiple big screen sequels. Despite this blitz, none of those spinoff projects ever really took off, and there is still some debate as to whether any of the Avatar features have had lasting cultural impact outside of (briefly) convincing Hollywood

Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) was a quiet American, says Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) to a French policeman. A friend, he adds, as the lifeless corpse of Pyle stares back at him with a wretched expression. This is the scene that opens Phillip Noyce's Vietnam-set political drama before the film flashes back a few months earlier to 1952 Saigon, where Fowler, an ageing Englishman, lives leisurely as a journalist reporting on the first Indochina war.

Rob Reiner's younger son, Nick Reiner, was arrested and booked Monday for what investigators believe was the fatal stabbing of the director-actor and his wife Michelle at their Los Angeles home a day earlier. Police Chief Jim McDonnell said Nick Reiner, 32, has been booked for murder and is being held on $4 million bail. Nick Reiner has spoken publicly of his struggles with addiction and homelessness.

Trouble is fermenting in the febrile heat of Rome. Violent political struggles are breaking out between militant neo-fascist, far-left organisations and the Italian state. Amid this tense unrest, Federico Fellini makes his opulent masterpiece, Casanova, and Pasolini makes his final film, Salò, an eviscerating and prophetic parable about the dangers of fascism. Olivia Laing's novel The Silver Book is a compelling noir thriller and queer romance, taking us into the heart of Rome's famous Cinecittà studios - Italian cinema's dream factory.

Divia, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, is a haunting, meditative journey through Ukraine's wounded landscapes-told entirely without dialogue.

No matter what you think of James Cameron's Avatar movies, their technical ambitions are undeniable. Cameron developed his own camera system to shoot the first Avatar in 3D, but since most of the actors were digitally captured, he also had the freedom to construct scenes with a virtual camera after they were physically shot. For Avatar: The Way of Water, which arrived a whopping 13 years after the first film, Cameron also leaned into high frame rate footage and new ways of modeling natural fluid

The data shows that the McCallister house in Home Alone, located in the suburbs of Chicago, is the most expensive property on the list, with an estimated 2025 market value of almost £4.4m. Edina Monsoon's Absolutely Fabulous townhouse on London's Holland Park Avenue ranks second with an estimated value of £3.1m, while Buddy's dad's Manhattan apartment from modern festive classic Elf would require a hefty investment of around £2.3m. Back in London, Sherlock Holmes' iconic 221B Baker Street home is valued at just over £2.2m.

We've known for years that the world of the planet Pandora presented in James Cameron's films is all motion-capture actors and immersive digital environments, and yet we still need to keep reminding ourselves of this fact, because it's all so tactile, so vivid, so... real. Early on in Avatar: Fire and Ash, we see the young Lo'ak (Britain Dalton) and his pals joyfully sprinting up the backs of their giant tulkun pals and taking flying leaps into the ocean,

On 19 December 1974, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz went round to her friend Peter Hujar's apartment in New York, and asked the photographer to describe exactly what he had done the day before. He talked in great detail about taking Allen Ginsberg's portrait for the New York Times (it didn't go well Ginsberg was too performative for the kind of intimacy Hujar craved). He also described the Chinese takeaway he ate and how his pal Vince Aletti came round to have a shower.

Richard Marcinko was a gentleman that trained CIA officers and special-ops people how to endure torture. He gave me a litany of things that I could do when I began to spiral. Like punch myself in the leg as hard as I can. Have a friend that I trust and punch him in the arm. Eat everything in sight. Changing patterns in the room,

This year has produced a glorious array of movie posters, and although there was plenty to admire in the brash marketing of big budget franchise fare - there was some interesting work around Tron: Ares and Thunderbolts, for example - it's perhaps telling that the most eye-catching creativity can be found promoting lower budget films that don't have recognisable IP to fall back on.