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Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals
Homelessness

Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals

Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens present new film series showing homelessness is more than one story
Film

Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens present new film series showing homelessness is more than one story

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is an eerie prediction of our surveillance age
Film

Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is an eerie prediction of our surveillance age

Line of Duty's Martin Compston: 'I was a wee bit of wide-o. But I don't think there was any malice'
Martin Compston at the Waterfront Cinema in Greenock ahead of the preview of his new series, Martin Compston's Scottish Fling. Picture date: Monday September 5, 2022.
Letter To My Younger Self

Line of Duty's Martin Compston: 'I was a wee bit of wide-o. But I don't think there was any malice'

Kinds of Kindness show it's not enough to accept alienation under capitalism – we must love it too
Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Kinds of Kindness'
Film

Kinds of Kindness show it's not enough to accept alienation under capitalism – we must love it too

Jeff Nichols on The Bikeriders, punk rock and what makes Austin Butler a 'stone cold movie star'
Jodie Comer and Austin Butler in The Bikeriders
Film

Jeff Nichols on The Bikeriders, punk rock and what makes Austin Butler a 'stone cold movie star'

A world without cinema is a world I don't want to live in
Film illustration
Film

A world without cinema is a world I don't want to live in

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited
Alex James and Damon Albarn in new documentary blur: To The End
Film

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited

Why Sasquatch Sunset is so much more than just a gross-out comedy in Chewbacca drag
Jesse Eisenberg and Christophe Zajac-Denek in Sasquatch Sunset
Film

Why Sasquatch Sunset is so much more than just a gross-out comedy in Chewbacca drag

Furiosa star Tom Burke: 'It stung when someone said I didn't have a face for TV'
Tom Burke.
Letter to my younger self

Furiosa star Tom Burke: 'It stung when someone said I didn't have a face for TV'

Netflix's Hit Man is what we used to call 'a good time at the movies' – but times have changed
Glen Powell in Hit Man
Film

Netflix's Hit Man is what we used to call 'a good time at the movies' – but times have changed

'This country is run by idiots and fools': Paul Weller on politics, God and the state of everything
Paul Weller and Johnny Harris
Music

'This country is run by idiots and fools': Paul Weller on politics, God and the state of everything

Viggo Mortensen on Trump, corruption and why classic Westerns are like the best poetry
Viggo Mortensen in The Dead Don't Hurt
Film

Viggo Mortensen on Trump, corruption and why classic Westerns are like the best poetry

Furiosa director George Miller on the function of stories and why Mad Max is a 'cautionary tale'
Furiosa
Film

Furiosa director George Miller on the function of stories and why Mad Max is a 'cautionary tale'

The Garfield Movie review – we're not feline the tubby orange tabby's full CGI makeover
Garfield in The Garfield Movie
Film

The Garfield Movie review – we're not feline the tubby orange tabby's full CGI makeover

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger – Scorsese's tribute to duo who inspired him
Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell, 1981.
Film

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger – Scorsese's tribute to duo who inspired him

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Filmmaker Melanie Manchot explains how her drama Stephen can offer hope to addicts
Stephen Giddings in Stephen
Film

Filmmaker Melanie Manchot explains how her drama Stephen can offer hope to addicts

Banshees of Inisherin star Kerry Condon: 'You won't be a beautiful human without empathy'
Kerry Condon
Film

Banshees of Inisherin star Kerry Condon: 'You won't be a beautiful human without empathy'

Challengers review – Zendaya stars in an absurdly compelling three-way love match
Zendaya and Mike Faist in Challengers
Film

Challengers review – Zendaya stars in an absurdly compelling three-way love match

Mena Massoud on life after Aladdin, confidence and the problem with roles for actors of colour
Mena Massoud
Film

Mena Massoud on life after Aladdin, confidence and the problem with roles for actors of colour

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