Mission impossible: If you want to see how desperate Hollywood is, just look at what happens to movie titles
Hollywood’s serial chopping and changing of franchise movie titles shows the studios will go to any lenghts to Anything to grab audiences’ attention
Four new films to see this week
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Phoenician Scheme, The Flats, When the Light Breaks
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
The Movie Quiz: How long has Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise gone on for?
Plus: Which was the first film in colour to win best picture at the Oscars?
The Flats: Excellent post-Troubles documentary that illuminates how trauma can nag away for decades
Most of Alessandra Celesia’s film focuses on a man who finds it hard to set aside the old unhappiness
Four new films to see this week
Excellent performances in harrowing thriller Hallow Road. Plus an enjoyably nasty comic horror sequel, a low-key coming of age drama and a scattershot satire of Americans abroad
No popcorn, no phones, no buckets of fast food: you realise how bad Irish cinemas are when you see films in ideal surroundings
Going to the movies was never so idyllic as old bores pretend. But handheld devices and noisy food have made it so much worse
Bono at Cannes: ‘You wrote this story. The Edge wrote this story. Adam and Larry wrote this story. McGuinness wrote this story’
The film version of the singer’s stage show Stories of Surrender received a seven-minute standing ovation
Cannes 2025: Tom Cruise’s death-defying wing-walking, and the festival’s ban on an actor accused of assault
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Sound of Falling, The Left-Handed Girl, and Two Prosecutors
Cannes film festival 2025 quiz: What is the Palme d’Or-winning film on this year’s poster?
To tie into the 78th edition of the festival, a special all-Cannes query
First Look: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise gets all sentimental amid some suave mayhem
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at Cannes film festival: the closing film in the Tom Cruise series takes itself far too seriously
Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudity
Cannes Diary: French film festival’s opening day contends with news from Gérard Depardieu’s sexual-assault trial
Hallow Road review: You can’t deny the chutzpah of this filmed-in-a-car minor classic
Few so economical features have had such unsettling fun in the dark, dark woods
Final Destination: Bloodlines review – The same running gag, but not quite as much invention
It’s astonishing just how bloodthirsty the film-makers can be in what is essentially a comedy