movies
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Staunch US opening for Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant shows maturing star appeal in this week’s roundup of the global box-office scene
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Comedian boosts TV ratings with another stint of celebrity baiting, although performance brings mixed reviews from critics
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Can Rogue One prove you don’t need The Force to make a great Star Wars movie? And will Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them pull in fans of Harry Potter in the absence of the Boy Who Lived?
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David Bowie’s many forays into film expressed the same searching spirit as his music, and his presence filled the screen
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Golden Globes 2016 just rewards for The Revenant – and an incredible coup for The Martian
Peter BradshawAlejandro González Iñárritu’s muscular, visceral movie deserves its four awards, but the Globes went a little more leftfield – and a lot more populist – when it came to the other winners
Road to the Oscars
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Awards contenders, fuelled by hope, acclaim and champagne, are all smiles as they do the rounds of the Los Angeles film industry’s parties
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The red carpet has been rolled, the tears shed and even the afterparties are coming to a close. So what lessons can we take from Hollywood’s second most gilded evening?
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Nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards are announced on 14 January. Our team of critics pick the films and artists they’d most like to see on the list
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Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie pitches Leonardo DiCaprio against nature, bears and Tom Hardy in a tale of revenge, retribution and primal violence
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In Andrew Haigh’s intelligent and moving drama, a retired husband and wife must rethink their whole lives together following the fallout from old news
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A blood-splattered murder mystery in 19th-century Wyoming is the notional plot for Tarantino’s swaggering off-message and old-fashioned three-hour masterpiece
video & audio
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The Guardian film showThe Guardian film showThe Guardian film show: The Hateful Eight, A War and Bolshoi Babylon – video reviewsThe team review the big film releases, including Quentin Tarantino’s new western, The Hateful Eight and Bolshoi Babylon, the documentary about Russia’s crisis-torn ballet company
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The Dailies podcastThe Dailies podcastThe Dailies podcast: Golden Globes specialThe Guardian film team review all the action from the 73rd Golden Globes
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Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence ticks off a foreign reporter for asking a question from his phone at the Golden Globes
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Leonardo DiCaprio won the best actor prize at the Golden Globes on Sunday but many on social media have been talking about his expressive face
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Orange reds, winter whites and bold metallics dominated the Golden Globes red carpet in the year’s first big show of fashion glitz
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‘I’m going to be nice tonight’ promised Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais in his opening speech at this year’s ceremony in Los Angeles
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The team review the big film releases, including Quentin Tarantino’s new western, The Hateful Eight and Bolshoi Babylon, the documentary about Russia’s crisis-torn ballet company
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Compared to the Oscars, the Globes are unpredictable – and from Mad Max: Fury Road to The Martian, there are a wealth of great films up for this Sunday’s awards
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Tarantino and Spielberg love the format, and have raised the profile of the new design – but the relaunch of analogue technology is more than a marketing ploy
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One attempts a Nigerian accent and goes all over the map, the other chews through dialect like a bear on Leonardo
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Creed shows how old favourites are being reinvented to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. But – unlike the latest Star Wars – these films have a healthy disregard for convention and cliche
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As his film Room is released, the Irish director talks about wise children, fear of failure and his love of Laurel and Hardy
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The Hateful Eight and Anomalisa actor on why she thought she was out of touch, and how to wash fake brains out of your hair
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The Mexican director tells of the gruelling shoot of his ‘man against nature’ epic, and why he never had time to enjoy last year’s Oscar triumph
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She was the queen of 90s film noir, starring in Single White Female and Short Cuts. Now Leigh is back with two of the biggest, bravest roles of her career. Could this be her year?
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The director talks about his third Jennifer Lawrence collaboration – their most exhilarating yet – and how ‘you have to bleed’ to succeed in film
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Like the five-year-old hero of her 2010 novel, the Irish writer has been on a journey of change. Now, having turned her tale about an enslaved family into a film – released later this month – she plans to reinvent it for the stage
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On the eve of the limited US release of his film Where to Invade Next, the film-maker says that he expects Trump to be the Republican candidate
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsKurt Russell: five best momentsAs one of Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell is on the verge of a comeback. Which have been his finest films?
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The film quizThe film quizSnowbusiness: match the wintry wasteland to the movie – quizAs Quentin Tarantino’s nippy western The Hateful Eight is finally released, see how many other chilly scenes you can recognise
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DVDs and downloads
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Philip French's classic DVDPhilip French's classic DVDThe Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caperAlec Guinness’s thieves without honour are no match for Katie Johnson’s Mrs Wilberforce in this allegory of postwar Britain
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentLove: the rise of the 3D sex epicWith porn ubiquitous to anyone with a half-decent broadband connection erotic films need a new gimmick
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloads45 Years; The Diary of a Teenage Girl; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Straight Outta Compton; We Are Your Friends; L’enfance nue – reviewShiver to Andrew Haigh’s portrait of a marriage rocked by secrets, while The Diary of a Teenage Girl will make you squirm
you may have missed
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With Leo DiCaprio facing a close encounter with a bear in The Revenant, Graeme Virtue takes lessons from other films where animals are successfully beaten off
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Jean-Luc Godard’s early films were distinct from each other in tone and form – romantic comedies, outlaw-chic, dystopian visions – connected only by the ‘shifting centre’ of his cinematic world, his wife and muse, Anna Karina
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Cold, hunger, raw bison liver: Leonardo DiCaprio endured the lot making new film The Revenant. But Hollywood is full of tales of such hardship
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The writer and director has filmed his latest movie, Anomalisa, using a technique many predicted would be killed off by CGI. But stop-motion, beloved by everyone from Tim Burton to Guillermo del Toro, is having a grown-up renaissance
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Sylvester Stallone is back in the ring, but this time the ageing fighter is facing his own mortality, and sharing some life lessons with the son of Apollo Creed. ‘It’s like Star Wars for the street,’ says director Ryan Coogler
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The courts refused to censor this period Bollywood romance and rightly so. But while the historical howlers are irritating, its main problem is the imagined narrative is so dull
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Along with his lifelong friend, László Kovács, the late Hungarian was a master of lenses and light, and their combined effect on cinema is impossible to overstate
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