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Its promotion started off controversially with a divisive first trailer, but viewing of exclusive footage extends olive branch to disenfranchised Trekkies
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US navy hero who inspired highest-grossing war movie of all time exaggerated medal haul, according to information released through data request application
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The controversial actor and director stars as a former biker in thriller Blood Father. To research the role, he talked to gang members and undercover DEA agents – and learned how to be a terrible tattoo artist
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Culture ministry produces list of subjects fit for funding, including ‘exemplary labour’ and ‘the constructive actions of civil society’
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Leah Green looks beyond the headlines to see why diversity remains such a problem in the UK film and TV industries
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Listen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastListen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastBernie Sanders attacks Disney and Love & Friendship reviewed – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news
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Entertaining mayhem ensues when some of the Avengers reject government oversight following a botched operation
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Jacques Audiard’s confident Palme d’Or-winner has a rare and keen interest in its characters – a trio of Tamil refugees in Paris – and an exhilarating mastery of style
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In Luca Guadagnino’s simmering drama, two ex-lovers are disastrously reunited at a Mediterranean villa where the pool is a temple of bared flesh and sex perfumes the air
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news
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The stars of Jeff Nichols’s Loving, a biopic of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were arrested in Virginia in 1958 for marrying, talk to Nigel M Smith
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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The narrative between Hollywood star Johnny Depp and Australia’s deputy PM Barnaby Joyce continues as Depp says Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’ on the Jimmy Kimmel show on Tuesday
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In this archive video, filmed in 2015, Alan Rickman remembers visiting the Royal Court as a teenager, starring in an acclaimed Irish version of The Seagull there and taking Rachel Corrie’s parents to see the play based on their daughter’s diaries
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Xavier Dolan, whose new film debuted to poor reviews at the Cannes film festival last week, shares his dismayed reaction to the critical mauling
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Appearing on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, Johnny Depp says Barnaby Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’, as he continues to mock the apology Depp made with his wife, Amber Heard, for smuggling their two dogs into Australia
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No one would begrudge the great director his second Palme d’Or victory for a drama with a noble, emphatic message. Yet it also serves to illustrate the differences between the Cannes crowd and the wider film audience
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After a goofy teaser trailer, the second preview of the upcoming sci-fi sequel has enough mystery, hardware and aliens to get fans excited
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Debate still rages over the scarcity of women directors, but many at the festival have been encouraged by the wealth of competition films featuring female leads – not all of them preoccupied with their love lives
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Do people go to see superhero-stuffed movies at the cinema because they’re searching for a collective experience in an increasingly isolated world?
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The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, is back with a fly-on-the wall view of Julian Assange’s bid to escape extradition
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After her father, Richard, died, the Underworld star grew up in London surrounded by her stepdad’s leftie pals. Now in LA, she tells us about starring in Whit Stillman’s Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship
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He’s may be a Hollywood veteran, but the Scot’s new film is a low-key coming-of-age tale set in London’s 70s punk scene. From Cannes, he discusses ‘tender man’ Joe Strummer, and how he learnt his trade from his fridge-freezer salesman dad
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Twenty years ago, the Shakespeare in Love star had Hollywood at his feet – then he all but disappeared. So what happened? He tells Tim Adams
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The Turkish director talks about her Oscar-nominated film Mustang – and why reaction to it at home made her take her talents elsewhere
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In the 90s she was dubbed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. Now happily reunited with Whit Stillman, she looks back at her rollercoaster career
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The former star of Home Alone stars in a surreal stoner version of the Arabian Nights tale masterminded by his musician friend Adam Green
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Five best momentsFive best momentsJames McAvoy: five best momentsAs he reprises his role as Professor X in X-Men: Apocalypse, we look back at the Scottish actor’s most memorable films
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The film quizThe film quizRotten tomatoes: match the insult to the movie star feud - quizWith Johnny Depp saying that Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’, can you guess which piece of shade reportedly belongs to which celebrity sparring partners?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportX-Men gang up on an exhausted Captain America at UK box officeMarvel superhero movie X-Men: Apocalypse takes £7.35m on its debut weekend, while Angry Birds flap hard to stay above The Jungle Book
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentStraight Talking: how Chelsea Handler’s new show changes the TV gameA Netflix series that’s made in just 48 hours may be a first, but Chelsea is still in thrall to chatshow convention
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!A window on infinity: rediscovering the short films of the Lumière brothersAs shown by a new restoration of some of the 1,400 shorts that the pioneers of early cinema filmed, the Lumières were true artists as well as inventors
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsVictoria; Spotlight; The Big Short; The Assassin; Dirty Grandpa; Mavis!; Eat Your Bones – reviewLove blossoms at double-quick speed in this amazing one-take heist thriller, while Spotlight celebrates the merits of listening
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In 1969, Philip Trevelyan filmed the beguilingly strange life of the Page family, who lived off-grid and rode steam engines round their wood. The director talks about how the film changed his life
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Miles Ahead and Born to Be Blue immortalise Miles Davis and link him to Chet Baker. I’m all for expanding the cinetrompette genre: the candidates pick themselves
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The films previewed at Cannes span revolutionary politics, explicit nudity and paranormal activity. Here are the five top themes
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These movies won’t win awards – they’ll be lucky just to get an audience. Here are some of the horror shows looking for a buyer at the festival
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From Pedro Almodovar’s sexually suggestive reindeer to Andrea Arnold’s big yawning bear, animals have invaded the Cannes film festival – on screen and off
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The Angry Birds movie features Sean Penn as a bird who does little but growl – but it’s just the latest in a long line of laconic film and TV roles
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Adolescent agony meets anaesthetised acting in this po-faced example of a familiar teen horror trope
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