Robbie Collin

“Hold out your thumb at arm's length,” says George Miller , while sitting at his desk and doing exactly that. “Now turn it sideways and bring it level with your gaze.

How the 79-year-old director dialled up the Outback chases – and ditched the duelling egos – to create the most dizzying film in the series

With war, scandal and division all boiling in the background, these are tense times for the film world – and even Cannes seems to be losing its provocateur nerve

Quentin Dupieux’s latest about the making of an AI film is an enjoyably surrealist start to the festival

John Krasinski – star of The (American) Office, creator of the science-fiction suspense franchise A Quiet Place, husband of Emily Blunt – has written and directed a children's fantasy adventure, and there are two ways of looking at the result.

Alright, stop me if you've heard this one before. A train is hammering across an arid landscape when suddenly, out of the wilds, bandits descend.

It took Francis Ford Coppola 40 years to make Megalopolis , and while stumbling out of its first screening at Cannes yesterday I felt like it might take me a further 40 to work out what it was about.

There's something especially pleasing when a new British director comes along whose name lines up neatly with their work.

Reuniting with her Poor Things director, it’s a treat to watch Stone and this great ensemble cast navigate different bizarre scenarios

Poor Things only opened in cinemas in January, so you might imagine that Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos would have given themselves some time off. Yet barely two months after Stone won an Oscar for the role, here they both are in Cannes, for the premiere of a film they shot in New Orleans during a two-month break in the Poor Things edit and which the Greek director later completed – well, who knows? Maybe on weekends.