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Fri 14 Aug 2026

Spotlight

Lesbians, latex and $2,000 condoms

Why are this summer’s movies so obsessed with sex?

From One Night Only to The Invite, a wave of new movies are a raunchy antidote to gen Z celibacy
Olivia Wilde in I Want Your Sex.
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Picks of the week

A woman with grey/white streaked hair wearing a black jacket
Imelda Staunton
‘Umbridge’s giggle needed to be short and sharp. So I just did a boom, boom’
Bill Nighy, in glasses and a pinstripe suit, crosses his arms with a serious expression
‘I ran away to Paris to be a writer and ended up begging’
Bill Nighy on dashed dreams, golf emojis and playing a cranky novelist
Julian Dennison and Sam Neill in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
‘We were attacked by a puppet pig!’
Sam Neill on making Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Actor Bruce Dern smiles, hands clasped, wearing a dark jacket
‘I turned down Gandhi because I’m terrified of snakes’
The amazing movie memories of Bruce Dern
Two people stand forehead to forehead holding hands in warm orange light
Borges, ballet and BDSM
10 must-see movies at Edinburgh international film festival
Andrew Rannells smiles in glasses and a dark suit against a pink background
‘It was fun to get pushed around’
Andrew Rannells on ‘razzle dazzle’, kissing co-stars and being a better friend to Lena Dunham
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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Lady

Outrageous mockumentary is like Saltburn on shrooms

★★★★☆
With supreme entitlement, Sian Clifford’s Lady Isabella shines as ‘aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians’ in this barnstorming comedy
Sian Clifford as Lady Isabella in Lady.
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This week's reviews

Antonio Banderas and Dominic Sessa in Tony
Tony
Knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir
★★★☆☆
Reporting from Standing Rock: Amy Goodman covering the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest, October 2016. (courtesy of Reed Brody) Press image: Steal This Story Please documentary
Steal This Story, Please!
Amy Goodman, stalwart of the American left, shows her teeth
★★★★☆
A blue, animated fish (Mr Fish) opens his mouth wide in shock, next to a startled yellow, animated sea dragon (Pip)
The Pout-Pout Fish
Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas
★★☆☆☆
Two women lie together, one resting her head on the other's shoulder, eyes closed
Songs of Forgotten Trees
Sensitive, ambiguous drama of female intimacy in Mumbai
★★★☆☆
The cast of Never Had a Chance in a scene from the film, standing in a row.
Never Had a Chance
A slice of gritty British Asian life with a side of drug dealing and addiction
★★★☆☆
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We recommend

Far from Heaven

Todd Haynes’ extraordinary homage to the ‘women’s drama’

★★★★★
I came to mock and stayed to pray ... instantly and correctly hailed as a capo lavoro, a masterpiece
FAR FROM HEAVEN<br>JULIANNE MOORE & DENNIS HAYSBERT Film 'FAR FROM HEAVEN' (2002) Directed By TODD HAYNES 08 November 2002 SSN54617 Allstar Collection/USA FILMS **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.
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