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LGBTQ+ inclusion in film at a three-year low, Glaad survey suggests
NEWS | 10 July 2026
LGBTQ+ characters are slowly disappearing from film in a trend that disproportionately affects LGBTQ+ characters of color, according to a report published today. An annual study of films by the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Glaad has found that just 46 of 225 films released in 2025 contained LGBTQ+ characters, making only 20.4% of last year’s movies inclusive of the queer community. This marks the third year in a row to see a decline in LGBTQ+ representation after a record high of 28.5% in Glaad’s 2023 study. It was a less positive year for trans representation, with the report noting that trans inclusion was nonexistent in the 200-plus films analyzed. In a press release, Glaad senior director of entertainment research and analysis Megan Townsend said that major studios ignoring queer and trans moviegoers is bad business.

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Louise Lasser, star of cult sitcom Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Woody Allen comedies, dies aged 87
NEWS | 10 July 2026
Louise Lasser, star of cult 70s sitcom Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and early films by Woody Allen (to whom she was married for four years), has died aged 87. Lasser’s role as a satirically conceived housewife in suburban Ohio in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, designed as a parody of daytime soap operas, made her a national star, landing her on the cover of People magazine and Rolling Stone. View image in fullscreen Louise Lasser as Mary Hartman in 1976. There’s only one Louise Lasser.” However, the show’s bruising schedule appeared to take a toll, and Lasser found it hard to follow it up. Photograph: Rollins-Joffe/United Artists/Kobal/ShutterstockShe subsequently appeared in TV shows including Taxi, It’s a Living, Laverne & Shirley and St Elsewhere.

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The Invite review – A-list ensemble electrify hilarious couples night gone wrong comedy
NEWS | 10 July 2026
I had a similar thrill watching The Invite at its sold-out Sundance premiere on Saturday night. That is the reason one should never marry.” – teasing a night that Edward Albee would approve of. The film is also directed by Wilde, her third film after the fizzy teen comedy Booksmart and beautiful yet maddeningly stupid thriller Don’t Worry Darling. It’s a mostly one-location comedy, but Wilde shoots on 35mm (!) It seems that the chance to watch a genuinely funny and uncommonly intelligent comedy for adults is an invite we have all been waiting for.

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Supergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstory
NEWS | 10 July 2026
The sexual politics of perceived female maturity has always been a problem in this particular set of superhero films. Quite why Kara Zor-El gets to be a “supergirl” while Kal-El gets to be a “superman”, despite not being that much older, is not obvious. When it comes to aerobatics, she is a big fan of rising vertically up and down, one knee slightly bent. And Supergirl certainly isn’t required (yet) to model any sort of figure-hugging costume for the male gaze. Supergirl isn’t a perfect movie by any means, but there are moments when you’ll believe this franchise can fly.

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Little Brother review – Netflix comedy is neither weird or funny enough for star Eric André
NEWS | 10 July 2026
The specific, unforced strangeness of Eric André’s comedy hasn’t been an easy fit for Hollywood. The film’s looseness did at least feel like a more natural fit for André than his follow-up for the streamer, the far more conventional and far less amusing comedy Little Brother, the closest he has come to “fitting in”. and only the odd flash of something sharper or legitimately weird to wake us up (one can only feel André truly letting loose in the inevitable credit-based outtakes). and found smarter ways to explore an unusual, intimate relationship (as a former big brother myself, I’m very aware of how ripe the material is). It was as rich as his follow-up is poor and the superficial similarities only make this one that much more disappointing, Little Brother the bastard child that might need cutting off.

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Toy Story 5 review – Pixar franchise needs new batteries
NEWS | 10 July 2026
The fifth episode of the Toy Story franchise is as slick and smooth as you like, as glitchless as Toy Story 6 or Toy Story 7 might be … or will be. As a piece of family-entertainment content it has the unblemished sheen of a brand new smartphone. These days Woody has a bald patch and a growing paunch, human fallibilities which mysteriously don’t affect Buzz or Jessie. Poor shy Bonnie is ostracised because she’s the only kid for miles around who still plays with toys and isn’t torpidly hypnotised by a tech device. It’s almost incredible to think that the Toy Story series is more than 30 years old, a central plank of the Pixar animation golden age.

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Leviticus review – queer desire is a deadly curse in haunting horror
NEWS | 10 July 2026
Something rather nasty is unfolding in Sundance horror Leviticus. In the world of Leviticus, the threat looks exactly like the person you desire the most, your No 1 crush wanting to crush your head in. It’s a crafty spin on an often lazily derivative sub-genre – what if your queer desire had a demonic manifestation – and speaks to a familiar deep-rooted fear. Visually, he’s as adept at capturing the chilly horror of isolation as he is at capturing the soft-hued buzz of togetherness. In many increasingly overcrowded fields – trauma horror, curse horror, gay horror, Sundance horror – Leviticus stands tall.

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Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
NEWS | 10 July 2026
Netflix’s latest romcom Voicemails for Isabelle is made with some awareness of how unsettling its premise is, as if it was originally written in the 2000s and then dusted off and tweaked for the 2020s (the film was originally set to star Hailee Steinfeld back in the 2010s). But, instead of leaning into what’s essentially the set-up for a stalker-thriller, McKendrick tries to have it both ways, poking fun at the weirdness of her meet-cute while also expecting us to bask in the basic, hot chocolate pleasures of it. That film was at least genuinely hysterically awful whereas Voicemails for Isabelle is too middle of the road to count as a five-wines-in hoot. while then also resorting to exactly the hackneyed and unearned “of course” ending we expect. In trying to scratch our itch for the old while also recognising the new, McKendrick settles for something stale.

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Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
NEWS | 10 July 2026
It has something of Hitchcock from North By Northwest, Christopher Nolan from Inception and Spielberg from pretty much every other movie he’s ever made. Only Spielberg could get away with taking two of the world’s best-known hoaxes – Roswell and crop circles – and treating them with judicious deadpan respect. View image in fullscreen Josh O'Connor in Disclosure Day. (So we can add Spielberg’s Disclosure Day to Kane Parsons’ Backrooms on the list of films influenced by Nathan Fielder’s TV series The Rehearsal.) This is his recovered memory of childhood, the willed, transformative rediscovery of that early state in which rapture was still possible.

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Stop! That! Train! review - RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
NEWS | 10 July 2026
There’s a sense that latter-day Drag Race is running on fumes, with 29 seasons including All Stars spinoffs and finale viewing figures that peaked in 2016. Praise be to the drag gods (or, more accurately, World of Wonder founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato) for saving Stop! When the train’s brakes inconveniently fail just as a super-tornado named Stormaganza looms, the plucky friends must find a way to … you guessed it, stop that train. Perhaps that’s unsurprising seeing as many recent Drag Race challenges have felt like mini movie sets themselves, with elaborate scripts and costumes. And while recent gay movies like Pillion and Blue Film have focused on uncomfortable home truths about queer life, Stop!

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Scary Movie review – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s
NEWS | 10 July 2026
The Scary Movie series has always depended on timing. It’s stuck far further back, doing a composite of the fifth and sixth Scream movies from 2022 and 2023, respectively. Scary Movie also doesn’t have nearly as much behind-the-scenes mismanagement to work around. Indeed, despite the recent horror boom, Scary Movie is arguably the Screamiest installment yet. This still actually counts as one of the more disciplined entries (Scary Movie 2 took time out to goof on … Save the Last Dance?!

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Booyakasha! Sacha Baron Cohen has completed a new Ali G movie
NEWS | 10 July 2026
Twenty-four years after Staines’s foremost political interlocutor was last seen on the big screen in Ali G Indahouse, Ali G is set to return to cinemas. Although Baron Cohen declared both Ali G and Borat – his Kazakh TV presenter and the star of a highly successful 2006 film – retired in 2007, both have returned. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm was released in 2020, while there were appearances by Ali G at the 2012 British Comedy Awards, in the TV show Ali G: Rezurection and at the 2016 Oscars. Shot in secret, as per much of Borat and 2009’s Brüno, which featured an Austrian fashion guru, the new Ali G film is believed to feature interviews with unsuspecting pundits. Previous audiences conducted by Ali G include a bemused Newt Gingrich and an outraged Tony Benn.

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Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis
NEWS | 10 July 2026
Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover has revealed he has been living with Alzheimer’s for several years. In the interview, Glover’s daughter Mandisa added that it was “really important” for him to speak on his own terms. Glover also spoke about his diagnosis with People, in which he said he was “still not accepting in my mind all parts of it”. I want to just say, your life continues.”Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Glover has amassed more than 170 film and TV credits. His film acting debut came in Escape From Alcatraz in 1979, but he rose to fame in the 1980s playing Roger Murtaugh alongside Mel Gibson’s Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon films.