movies
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Alex Gibney on Stuxnet film Zero Days: 'We need laws for cyberweapons'His latest documentary lays bare the story of the Stuxnet worm, a groundbreaking virus jointly created by the US and Israel. Here the acclaimed film-maker discusses the pervasive threat posed by this new age of warfare -
Fancy a jar? Celebrities cork their dreams for The BFGA new public art installation, The BFG Dream Jar Trail, opens across the UK on Saturday. Celebrities were tasked with coming up with a dream to inspire and improve children’s lives, which was then made into a sculpture and popped into a jar
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Gay kiss – in which one man unconscious – cut from new Tarzan filmDirector says kiss between Alexander Skarsgård and Christoph Waltz in The Legend of Tarzan was ‘almost too much’ and perplexed test audiences -
Simon Pegg: I respectfully disagree with George Takei over gay SuluActor and scriptwriter for Star Trek Beyond defends decision to reveal character is in a same-sex relationship, saying audience would infer that he was always gay – and that ‘we are all LGBT somewhere’
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Cary Grant: from the Bristol docks to the Hollywood hillsHis hometown is celebrating Archie Leach’s transformation into the 20th century’s most charming and debonair movie star – but in real life he was more bad boy than sweetheart
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The Legend of Tarzan review – an inherently problematic remakeCommitted performances aren’t enough to save this film from uncomfortable colonial optics, uninspiring CGI and tedious plotlines
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The BFG review: Spielberg and Rylance's delicate touch proves hugely charmingA touch of touristic uncertainty as to place and time can’t hobble this beautifully wrought, London-set adaptation of the Roald Dahl story reuniting Mark Rylance and Steven Spielberg after Bridge of Spies
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The Purge: Election Year review – a pardon for society's lust for carnageThe subversive value of the first two instalments chronicling America’s descent into legalised chaos is somewhat lost in this bloodthirsty sequel
video & audio
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Maggie's Plan reviewed and Sulu's sexuality - the Dailies film podcastThe film team’s final daily round-up of movie news
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Becoming Zlatan: trailer for Ibrahimović documentary – videoThe trailer for Fredrik Gertten’s documentary on Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. The film traces the footballer’s career
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The Square: clip from Michael Winner's lost skiffle film – videoMichael Winner’s first ever film,1957’s The Square, was a black-and-white short revolving around a serious skiffle music knees-up in King’s Cross
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The Legend of Tarzan: 'It's an adventure movie, it's not there to educate' – videoThe Legend of Tarzan is the latest reboot of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Greystoke yarn, with Alexander Skarsgård as Tarzan
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Now You See Me 2 reviewed and Panama Papers film plotted – the Dailies film podcastThe film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news
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Imperium trailer: Daniel Radcliffe as an undercover FBI agent – videoDaniel Radcliffe stars in new drama Imperium as a young FBI agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of white supremacists plotting to detonate a dirty bomb
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Will we ever see a black Iron Man, Asian Hulk or female Thor on the big screen?Expect more diverse superheroes not only in Marvel’s comic but also in cinemas. It’s about time
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The Oscar race for best documentary is on – here are the early contendersFrom Sundance hits like Life, Animated and Weiner, to Alex Gibney’s latest and OJ Simpson: Made in America, here are the films making waves this year
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Best of frenemies: why do men make movies about women in meltdown?Queen of Earth and The Neon Demon are the latest in a long line of films about conflict and hysteria in female relationships
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Celluloid is strictly for nostalgists. Digital technology saved a dying mediumThose who mourn the passing of 35mm forget what a closed club film-making was, and overlook how vital and creative digital cinema has become
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Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones: ‘The US is the most depressed nation in the world and I blame comedians’
Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones: ‘The US is the most depressed nation in the world and I blame comedians’
She’s a 6ft ball of energy who slogged away on the comedy circuit for 25 years before landing Saturday Night Live and then Ghostbusters. She talks about wanting to be the new Eddie Murphy and why ‘crazy-wild-big’ laughs matter -
My morning with Anton Yelchin: 'I have an overabundance of emotion'In an interview conducted at Cannes last year to promote the acclaimed drama Green Room, the actor was in expansive mood, talking of his kinship with Russian literature, revulsion for Nazis – and his favourite punk rockers
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Nicolas Winding Refn: 'I bring the singular, the narcissistic, the high art'His films are stylish glitterbombs of sex and death. As The Neon Demon arrives, the director talks about couples therapy, turning down Rihanna – and witnessing a stranger die in an LA parking lot
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Tom Sturridge: ‘If I’d been a parent to myself, I would have been scared’The actor on rebellion, the power of fear, why Damian Lewis would never offer advice, and the irrelevance of awards
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Greta Gerwig: 'I love people. I believe in their essential goodness’The actor has gone from indie darling to millennial emblem with her ditzy but heartfelt characters. What’s the secret of her appeal?
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Samuel L Jackson: ‘I was a drug addict but I showed up on time and hit my marks’A Hollywood fixture from Tarantino to Pixar movies, the one-time Black Panther is now getting political in The Legend of Tarzan. He talks about how getting sober led to non-stop work and stardom
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsCelia Imrie: five best momentsAs the actor brings her comic talents to bear on the Ab Fab movie, we look at her playful turns on the big screen
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The film quizThe film quizFeel the burn: match the insult to the movie – quizIn this week’s lurid horror The Neon Demon, Elle Fanning has a sharp-edged introduction to the fashion industry. But how well do you know other bitchy cinematic quips?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportAb Fab ad campaign makes Edina and Patsy toast of UK box officeTV spinoff Absolutely Fabulous and action comedy Central Intelligence snapping at the heels of the family friendly animation
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainment[in]Transition: where action meets academiaGet past the pretentious preamble, and this film journal illuminates the big-screen
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Cinema paradiso: Bologna's magical Il Cinema RitrovatoFrom the beautiful Coeur Fidèle to a perfectly restored 1899 film projector, the city’s festival of rediscovered gems induced strained necks and gasps of delight
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsSon of Saul; Labyrinth of Lies; Secret in Their Eyes; Strangerland; The Girlfriend Experience – reviewLázló Nemes’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama puts the competition to shame
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Margot Robbie, 'throwback people' and the Vanity Fair story fit for satireWriter Rich Cohen’s focus on star’s looks and Australia sparks outrage – and then snark as it’s just ‘another day, another profile written by a crusty old man’
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From Tarzan to Avatar: the problem with 'the white man in the jungle'The wild man in the loin cloth is returning to our screens, along with new takes on King Kong and The Jungle Book. But films set in the rainforest still struggle to shake off racist tropes
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The kids of Jesus Camp, 10 years later: 'Was it child abuse? Yes and no'The controversial 2006 documentary about an evangelical church camp outraged secular audiences, but its subjects have mixed memories
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How we made Highlander: 'Connery opened his homemade whisky on the plane'‘Drinking is forbidden on a shoot. You just try that in the Highlands’
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Abbas Kiarostami: sophisticated, self-possessed master of cinematic poetryThe Iranian auteur, who has died aged 76, specialised in a kind of realist-parable film-making that, despite its apparent simplicity, made him one of the great directors of our time
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Inside the weird world of The Neon DemonNicolas Winding Refn’s divisive new film is slick and sinister. Here, Natasha Braier, his cinematographer, breaks down its visceral style
'It was such obvious bullshit': The Rock writer shocked film may have inspired false WMD intelligence