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The former Downton Abbey star excels as a family man who becomes an arrogant villain – but the film-makers don’t know what to do with his transformation
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Depp and Amber Heard’s quasi-apology for illegally taking their terriers to Australia mocks the authorities, yet falls short of satire and into a kind of weird irony
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The screenwriter – who is not associated with the anime remake – has weighed into the ‘whitewashing’ debate and said dearth of high-profile Asian stars is result of a ‘broken system’
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The debut film by writer/director Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills stars Jodie Whittaker as a woman in her late 20s who specialises in lo-fi films featuring talking fingers
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I burst into tears when I found the house my grandfather was forced to abandon in Pakistan in 1947, and I knew then I finally had to tell our family’s story
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Listen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastListen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastThe Jungle Book reviewed: with spoilers, and Jon Favreau – the Dailies film podcastA special Monday edition of the Guardian’s daily film podcast discussing Jon Favreau’s remake of The Jungle Book
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Hyperreal digital animation meets old-fashioned storytelling in this faithful remake, which loses the songs but brings new, ingenious twists on the original
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Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Costner swap bodies in this extremely ridiculous and unpleasantly violent science-fiction thriller
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In this outrageous, enjoyably absurd romp, Shah Rukh Khan plays a Mumbai megastar pursued by an obsessive lookalike fan
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A special Monday edition of the Guardian’s daily film podcast discussing Jon Favreau’s remake of The Jungle Book
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Heard and Depp publicly apologise for their dogs’ unauthorised foray down under in a video posted to an Australian government YouTube channel
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The director of the new version of Rudyard Kipling’s jungle-set adventure remembers his late friend and talks about how the movie pushes the limits of new technology
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Friday’s movie news
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The star of a thriller about the backroom dealing behind a drone strike talks to Benjamin Lee about the moral implications of remote warfare
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The director of Our Little Sister, a family drama about three sisters who decide to take in a fourth sibling they’ve never met, talks to Andrew Pulver
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s experience at the end of Titanic helped him survive The Revenant. The Martian enabled Matt Damon to do what he couldn’t in Interstellar. Look and learn, Domhnall Gleeson
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Watching landmarks being blown up used to be thrilling. But can we enjoy films like Bastille Day, Made in France and London Has Fallen in the same way after the Paris and Brussels attacks?
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Study lays bare the fact that women are given far less dialogue than male actors – because it’s men who still get to tell the stories that form our cultural narratives
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The actor recently admitted to being befuddled by Spotlight’s triumph at the Oscars – but his critique is old-fashioned with a whiff of sour grapes
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He’s the go-to actor when it comes to menace, but does the new Jungle Book’s King Louie have a softer side?
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The Oscar-winning debut film has stunned audiences with its unflinching portrayal of Auschwitz victims. Here, the director explains why he wanted it to be a visceral, immersive experience that avoided the usual ‘safe road’ ending for viewers
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It took seven years for the DIY SOS presenter to make The Golden Years, his film about bank-robbing pensioners. At first no one would take him seriously. Then some old-time crooks struck with the Hatton Garden heist ...
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Famous for lyrical movies featuring reincarnation and talking apes, the Thai director of Uncle Boonmee also has a political side – now he is taking on Thailand’s generals with a film about sleeping soldiers
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The star of Eye in the Sky on the drone debate, learning to love LA, and the return of Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman
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The Oscar-nominated actor gets fired up about equal pay, refusing to play the damsel – and the truth about her ‘fight’ with Jennifer Lawrence
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The Kentucky actor has played cracked saints, remorseless mafiosi and tragic monsters. Now he’s bringing his brand of ‘all-American madness’ to sci-fi thriller Midnight Special
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Five best momentsFive best momentsTommy Lee Jones: five best momentsThe Oscar-winner can be seen this week in a small role in London-set thriller Criminal. But which films count as his greatest?
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The film quizThe film quizMatch the shot of London to the movie – quizAs Kevin Costner rampages around the capital in action thriller Criminal, are you able to identify other films set in the city?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportZootropolis attracts all creatures great and small at UK box officeThe Huntsman: Winter’s War shoots to the top, but Disney’s animation – a hit with couples and families – is the real winner
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentImmaculate collection: the classiest DVD range ever arrives in the UKThe Criterion Collection is the film snob’s home entertainment fix of choice, but is it as vital as it leads us to believe?
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!The rundown on Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's tribute to silent chase comediesA new documentary reveals the fascinating story behind Samuel Beckett’s sole foray into cinema, a conceptual chase film that bamboozled its star Buster Keaton
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsStar Wars: The Force Awakens; Criterion Collection; The Survivalist; Emelie; Ukraine Is Not a Brothel – reviewAdam Driver brings drama to an otherwise by-the-numbers Star Wars sequel, while a prestige US series of DVD releases hits the UK with Harold Lloyd and Frank Capra classics
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His bold photos of gay sex and erotica in the 1970s looked set to define his legacy as shock and controversy. But a new docufilm suggests we take a closer look
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A plan to demolish one of London’s best-loved arthouse cinemas has unleashed a campaign to save it and highlight the growing threat to the heart of the West End
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Danny Boyle’s cult horror seems an ideal showpiece for the immersive event company, but this well-staged show was hobbled by the dead-eyed pursuit of punters’ pounds
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In Kipling’s stories, the superiority of man is stated with a harshness that will startle those whose only image of Mowgli comes courtesy of Disney
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Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren, London Has Fallen and Good Kill explore the mayhem unleashed by military drones. But can Hollywood navigate the issues without fetishising the weapons?
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Andrea Arnold seems like the one to watch with her American Honey, while Ken Loach gets tough on food-bank Britain. And look out for the hidden gems
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For three years, director Jenny Gage and her cinematographer husband Tom Betterton followed ta group of girls growing up in New York. The results are astonishing
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