movies
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Pacific Rim 2: Star Wars' John Boyega cast as lead in sequel to monster epicThe British star will play the son of Idris Elba’s character from the first film in the sequel, which will not see Guillermo del Toro return as writer or director -
'Women are realistic, men idealistic': Studio Ghibli on why a director's gender mattersWhen Hayao Miyazaki left Japan’s legendary studio, Hiromasa Yonebayashi took the reins. He speaks about the shadow cast by his predecessor, animation in the age of Pixar and how men and women approach fantasy differently
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Morgan Freeman: 'I'm sexist but not misogynist'Actor makes controversial comments during panel discussion with long-term producing partner Lori McCreary -
Me Before You director defends film against disability campaignersThea Sharrock dismisses ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of her story about a carer who falls for her quadriplegic client
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Why the EU's plans for a single market in film need to be opposedIf we prefer thought-provoking European films to formulaic blockbusters, we must halt this attempt to buffer the power of monopolistic players
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Captain America: Civil War review – an aspartame rushEntertaining mayhem ensues when some of the Avengers reject government oversight following a botched operation
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Dheepan review – a crime drama packed with epiphanic grandeurJacques 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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A Bigger Splash review – Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes plumb the depths of desireIn 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
video & audio
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' profits halved – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Monday’s movies news and reviews
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Remembering the Man podcast: how Timothy Conigrave narrated a documentary about his own deathAt an event recorded live in Melbourne, we look at the documentary that explores the lives and romance of Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo – the subjects of Australian memoir, play and film Holding the Man. Guardian Australia’s film critic, Luke Buckmaster, talks with documentary directors Nick Bird and Eleanor Sharpe, and HIV advocate Nic Holas. Together they examine the making of the film and why 20 years later the story is still important to young gay men
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A Month of Sundays podcast: midlife crises and the mental health of menRecorded live in Melbourne, Guardian Australia’s film critic Luke Buckmaster discusses Australian film A Month of Sundays with writer and director Matthew Saville, stage and screen actor Julia Blake, and Steve Biddulph, one of the world’s best-known authors on parenting. Together, they examine the themes of the film: society’s expectations of men, the changing role of fathers, and where women fit into all this
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Bond's female director rumour and the Keira apology – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news
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Russell Crowe on The Nice Guys and his toilet chat with Ryan Gosling – video interviewRussell Crowe, the star of The Nice Guys – Shane Black’s action comedy about a pair of misfit guns for hire who are trying to track down a missing porn star – talks to Andrew Pulver
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Rogue One reshoots and Alice falls down a hole – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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Can the Hulk save Thor from becoming Marvel's puniest hero?A Thor/Hulk intergalactic buddy movie featuring select cuts from the classic Planet Hulk storyline could be in the works, and it’d make Thor: Ragnarok a movie we’d walk into hell to see
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From Snatch to The Iron Lady: British films hobbled by a Hollywood starKelsey Grammer is the latest US luminary to partake in the proud tradition of phoning in a mediocre performance for a small British film, but what are the worst examples of A-list shoehorning?
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Do Rogue One reshoots spell the end for Hollywood's dark side?The forthcoming Star Wars spin-off has joined the Suicide Squad, Avengers and Bond films in rejecting sombreness for levity. But the most successful adaptations do much more than simply impose a ‘dark’ or ‘light’ template
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‘I’m not a thing to be pitied’: the disability backlash against Me Before YouThe film, an adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ bestseller starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, has drawn fury from activists. It’s not the first movie to be criticised for what it says about disability
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Happy Days creator Garry Marshall on the Fonz's jump: 'Sharks were big then. It was after Jaws!'The veteran director talks about the good times on Happy Days and the rotten tomatoes for his new film, Mother’s Day
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Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’The documentary maker reveals how illness, divorce and his father’s death changed him and why Donald Trump really is a fascist
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Duncan Jones on Warcraft: 'If you get it wrong, people are going to be upset'The director son of David Bowie on his £100m franchise movie and the downside of geek culture
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After The Babadook: Jennifer Kent's new film tackles Australia's violent colonial historyAustralian writer-director says of The Nightingale, the first film after her thrilling debut, ‘It’s certainly not a horror film but it’s a pretty horrific world’
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Melissa McCarthy: ‘I love a woman who doesn't play by the rules’Bridesmaids made her one of the world’s most highly paid actresses. Now she’s taking over from the men in Ghostbusters
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Paul Verhoeven on Elle: 'It is not a rape comedy'No female actor in Hollywood would touch it. But the director’s perverse black comedy starring Isabelle Huppert was the toast of Cannes. The controversial film-maker talks about his most daring work yet
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsWilliam Hurt: five best momentsThe Oscar-winning actor stars in this week’s fact-based sports drama Race, but what have been his career highlights?
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The film quizThe film quizBlood test: match the red stuff to the film – quizAs Iggy Pop stars in the violent thriller Blood Orange this week, test your knowledge about how many bloody scenes you recognise for past films
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UK box office reportUK box office reportAlice sequel slips up as X-Men maintain a heroic hold on the UK box officeThe X-Men’s superhero status is challenged but not toppled by Alice Through the Looking Glass, while Love & Friendship gets plenty of affection over bank holiday
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentMichel Gondry: the most unpredictable man in filmAs his Noam Chomsky animation proves, nobody does freewheeling movie-making like the French director
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Lotte Reiniger: animated film pioneer and standard-bearer for womenThe story of the groundbreaking director behind today’s Google doodle and how her fairytale-inspired work made her one of the most important early women in the film industry
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsThe Revenant; Concussion; The 33; Go With Me; Scott of the Antarctic; Shane; The Lady Gambles; No Man of Her Own – reviewLeonardo DiCaprio grunts and winces his way through icy landscapes, while Will Smith strains just as hard in an earnest but worthy performance
you may have missed
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What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about AmericaNot just fantasies, Steven Spielberg’s visions of alien landings and artificial intelligence are also a barometer of a nation’s hopes and fears
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Learning To Drive: a modest drama with a big heartPatricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley give the 50-something drama a gentle gear change
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Lotte Reiniger: animated film pioneer and standard-bearer for womenThe story of the groundbreaking director behind today’s Google doodle and how her fairytale-inspired work made her one of the most important early women in the film industry
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Arabian Nights: satire meets Scheherazade in epic Portuguese trilogyMiguel Gomes explores his country’s austerity years via myth and dick jokes
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Face/off: the oddest facial expressions on movie posters – in picturesA new poster for oil spill disaster film Deepwater Horizon has John Malkovich looking like a stern yet camp science teacher in a sitcom – but he’s not the only actor to have made a left-field expression choice in a one-sheet
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The Moon and the Sledgehammer: the cult film about a Sussex family who hid in a forestIn 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
Ava DuVernay: 'This patriarchy is often shocked when a black film does well'