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The eagerly awaited reboot replaces the four male characters of the original with women. Could it be a game changer for Hollywood? ‘Everyone needs to step up,’ says its director, Paul Feig
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Actor tells Guardian she feels issues including equal pay for women are sidelined from mainstream politics
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Ghostbusters, Star Trek, X-Men, Bourne – it’s blockbuster time. So should you swing with Tarzan, hit the road with Brent, or enter the warzone of Iraq with Tina Fey?
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The star of forthcoming Le Carré adaptation Our Kind of Traitor on female directors, posh actors and why theatre’s not for her
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As his lodger is re-convicted for murder, the director talks about the Texan justice system, the art of storytelling – and why he’ll always be a slacker at heart
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Listen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastListen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastCaptain America: Civil War reviewed – a Dailies film podcast specialA special edition devoted to a spoiler-filled review of the latest Marvel epic
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Entertaining mayhem ensues when some of the Avengers reject government oversight following a botched operation
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László Nemes’s debut, about a prisoner at Auschwitz forced to work in the gas chambers, dramatises the concentration camps with great intelligence, seriousness and audacity
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An investment banker struggles to grieve for his wife in this Garden State-esque soul search while as an audience, we struggle to care
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A special edition devoted to a spoiler-filled review of the latest Marvel epic
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Needlecraft tells the harrowing story of Female Genital Mutilation in an animation using needle and thread
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Friday’s movie news
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Stephen Frears’ film about the notoriously appalling New York singer Florence Foster Jenkins in the 1940s stars Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news
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The trailer for Oliver Stone’s thriller Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the NSA whistleblower
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The stars and directors of Captain America: Civil War – including Chris Evans, who plays the Marvel Comics superhero – talk to Benjamin Lee
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From the new Absolutely Fabulous movie to Zoolander 2, Ryan Gilbey reflects on what separates the unforgettable star turns from the excruciating B-list cash-ins
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It’s been hailed for its slick universe-building, searing badinage and subtle villain. But what did you make of Marvel’s latest superhero megaflick?
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Knight of Cups is just the latest film out to make us feel sorry for glamorous people cursed with success
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Captain America: Civil War isn’t the only comic-book movie to champion the strong individual over unreliable authority figures when it comes to sorting good from bad. The tactic worked well before – in westerns
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The documentary-maker on how his love of architecture has inspired two new films about Liverpool and Cardiff
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Once half of indie oddballs the Moldy Peaches, Green has made the year’s craziest film, a lysergic take on the folk tale starring Macaulay Culkin. We cadge a few film-making pointers from a DIY auteur
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The Avengers and Mission: Impossible star is famous not only for blockbusters but also as a great character actor. And then there’s the interior design
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The enigmatic French film-maker is one of cinema’s few authentic visionaries. Her unsettling new film about maternity, boys and echinoderms makes it clear why hers has not been the easiest career to pursue
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The designer and actor on her return to film in Set the Thames on Fire, floods, fashion and Mars bars
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The Russian film-maker discusses The Fool, his latest study of corruption, moral compromise and the behaviour of people in impossible situations
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Molly Dineen has made an inhouse film for crisis-hit firm Serco full of happy prisoners and grateful asylum-seekers. Why?
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Five best momentsFive best momentsChris Cooper: five best momentsThe Oscar-winning actor stars with Jake Gyllenhaal in this week’s oddball comedy-drama Demolition, but what have been his smartest career choices?
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The film quizThe film quizO Captain! My Captain! Match the captain to the movie – quizAs Chris Evans suits up for battle in this week’s Marvel blockbuster Captain America: Civil War, how well do you know his fellow fictional captains?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportThe Jungle Book remains top of the tree at UK box officeDisney’s live-action remake slips just 18% after its stunning opening week, as drone thriller Eye in the Sky looks on in second spot
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentSpecial Correspondents: Ricky Gervais is far from the man he used to beThe comedian’s new Netflix film is a crude and not-that-current affair
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Mary Pickford: America's first screen megastarHer natural acting style made her the world’s pre-eminent silent cinema actor, but Pickford, born Gladys Smith, also became a producer and an early film mogul
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsRan; Citizen Kane; Daddy’s Home; In the Heart of the Sea; Yakuza Apocalypse – reviewRestored classics from Kurosawa and Orson Welles beat the competition hands down in a thin week
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Deadpool’s enormous success bodes well for Seth Rogen’s R-rated SXSW hit – plus plenty more rude cartoons coming down the pipe
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On the 20th anniversary of the film starring Tom Cruise, the director publishes the exhaustive 5,000-word mission statement he wrote for his crisis-hit sports agent
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From Toto to Beethoven, dogs get our tails wagging at the flicks. But how about if they’re no longer alive and licking? Zoe Williams watches Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson’s lament for Lolabelle
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From ‘rats’ in politics to cane toads in Queensland via ice-bitten tragedies in Everest and Antarctica, we round up the best documentaries from Australia
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The Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary about “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale – ageing, isolated relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis – has become a cultural phenomenon, with a musical and a TV film reconstruction already produced. Here are a selection of photographs from the celebrated film
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The housing market may not sound like the most stimulating territory for a story, but it has been the basis of some of Australia’s greatest films
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Power, violence, death and reality … the movies can teach us plenty about life’s big issues. From the Godfather to Groundhog Day, five psychologists pick the films that tell us what makes humans tick
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