Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival Featuring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson and many more, the director’s latest A-lister-filled farce has premiered at Cannes – and it’s daft but fun. Just when you think that Wes Anderson can’t get any more Wes Anderson-ish, he makes a film which …

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster is once again set to shock with this surreal, gory western featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. Ari Aster’s first two films, Hereditary and Midsommar, …

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed. When King James was returning by sea to Scotland with his …

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) From skinny to barrel and ultra-high to low-slung, jeans trends are ever changing – so how can we choose the perfect pair for us, and maintain them properly? Few items of clothing are both as iconic and ubiquitous as a pair of jeans. With era-defining …

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise. With so much tension and conflict around the world, it can be a relief when a Hollywood blockbuster …

Getty Images Yesterday, the French mega-star was found guilty of sexual assaulting two women on a film set. It’s verdict which could have a big impact on the country’s film industry. It couldn’t have been timed more dramatically if it had been written into a film script. The world’s most …

Getty Images There’s complex etiquette and a rich history behind the French film festival’s red-carpet ban of “naked” or “voluminous” dressing. We decipher the “decency” dress code of the Cannes Film Festival in 2025. That most rigid of red carpets just got a little bit more rigid – on Tuesday, …

Alamy Twenty-five years ago, the first instalment terrified by making everyday scenarios into death traps. Now, after a 14-year break, Final Destination: Bloodlines is tweaking the formula. “In death, there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes.”  Those are the unsettling words of all-knowing mortician William Bludworth …

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) In May 1943, a specially formed RAF squadron embarked on a daring moonlit mission – but its success came with a heavy cost. In 1976, the BBC spoke to one of the airmen who made it home alive. Throughout the month of April 1943, Jack …

Alina Pyazok One of the most controversial entries in the Eurovision song contest is Espresso Macchiato by Estonia’s Tommy Cash. It mocks Italian stereotypes, and there have been calls to ban it. The track by Estonian rapper and singer Tommy Cash is the country’s entry into the 2025 Eurovision Song …

Ligne Roset Space-age style is skyrocketing in pop culture – in celebrities’ homes, at global design fairs and even in blockbuster films. We look back at the stunning retro-futuristic origins of 2025’s biggest interiors aesthetic, and ask, why now? From aerodynamic cars to voluminous moonscape-style seating, popular culture and design …

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Published years before WW2, Sally Carson’s prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today. Eighty years after VE Day, enthusiasm for the World War Two novel remains undimmed. Demand for tales of wartime Europe, always healthy, has …

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Decades before Tom Cruise was making audiences gasp, the Gallic star was getting up to even more hair-raising exploits on screen – sometimes with few safety measures. One of modern Hollywood’s great leading men, Tom Cruise, is to receive a fellowship from the British Film Institute this …

Getty Images On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz, never to be seen again. The ultimate fate of Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers remains a mystery but the ingenuity and determination of their daring escape – from what was the US’s most secure prison – continues to …

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) In 1956, Royal Navy Commander “Buster” Crabb disappeared in murky circumstances during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, the BBC’s Michael Buchanan read the newly declassified files that detailed Crabb’s unofficial secret mission – and how the government tried …

Tyler Mitchell (Credit: Tyler Mitchell) This year’s Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black “dandy” style, and the tradition of bold tailoring worn by black men that has made a statement. Black dandyism, the subject of the Costume Institute’s much-anticipated spring 2025 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum …

Paramount The return of Marvel, Final Destination and Mission: Impossible franchises are among this month’s unmissable films to watch and stream. Sony Karate Kid: Legends Cobra Kai began life as a YouTube series which picked up from where the 40-year-old Karate Kid franchise left off. In short, it didn’t sound …

Serenity Strull/ BBC From Tina Fey’s new relationship comedy to an action drama from the creator of Lost, and the return of Sarah Jessica Parker and co in the third season of the Sex and the City sequel. Netflix 1. The Four Seasons Tine Fey stars in and co-created this …

Alamy A new Apple TV+ series explores the life of the so-called “King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings” – shown as a wild enfant terrible in post-Revolutionary France who blazed a trail for future generations of cooks. It’s described as “the story of the first celebrity chef”. The …

Disney The latest in the superhero franchise “is scrappy, scruffy-looking, down-to-earth fun”, with a “charismatic” Florence Pugh at its centre, writes Nicholas Barber. Ever since Avengers: Endgame came out in 2019, the subtitle has felt a lot more appropriate than the studio might have liked. It’s not that Marvel hasn’t …