movies
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Which star didn’t bathe for four months? Who became a cabbie? Our guide to actors who take their art to new levels
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Jonas’s casting in film dubbed as ‘reimagining’ of the 1995 classic starring Robin Williams would mark the pop star’s biggest foray into acting
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The actor has revealed plans to uncouple from her lifestyle website, saying that the brand’s growth may be limited by her connection to it
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Barry Lyndon is perhaps Stanley Kubrick’s most charming protagonist – yet he is a bully, a deceiver and a snob
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The Guardian film team review the week’s big and small releases
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Ellen DeGeneres and Dominic West, the stars of Pixar sequel Finding Dory, join director Andrew Stanton to talk about the film
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Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell shine in this lewd but safe comedy from the writers of The Hangover that sees what happens when stressed-out mothers cut loose
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Paul Greengrass and his star have upped the tech and chucked in references to Snowden, but it’s basic Bourne that remains most persuasive
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This accomplished finance drama feels fresh for its gender-switch dynamics – but did all the men need to be quite so dim?
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The trailer for Suicide Squad, the superhero movie based on the DC Comics’ antihero team, directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith
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Split, the new film from The Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan, stars James McAvoy
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At Comic-Con on the weekend, it was revealed that The Woods, Adam Wingard’s new horror, is in fact a sequel to found footage classic The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Australian actor Margot Robbie describes a Vanity Fair profile of her as a ‘really odd interview’
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A clip from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cold war satire Dr Strangelove, featuring Peter Sellers as mild-mannered US president, Merkin Muffley, and the creepy ex-Nazi scientist, Strangelove
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Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn stars as a successful investment banker threatened by financial corruption in the film
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Watch Guy Ritchie’s take on the legend, which sees Charlie Hunnam play the street urchin who discovers his noble destiny after removing the sword from the stone
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The release of Suicide Squad confirms a cinematic trend: all of our heroes are antiheroes and all of our baddies have been humanised. It’s time for the return of some proper bogeymen
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Who are the forces of satanic nature that chill the blood of our film critic?
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This is no Bechdel test-brandishing diatribe – Hollywood simply needs to do better if the best part it can find for the fabulous actor is 007’s latest squeeze
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Theatre is pricey and divisive but can a livestream ever capture its flesh and blood thrills? Our film critic decided to find out – by legging it out of Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet at the interval …
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Actor recalls how the online abuse she endured while playing Skyler White in Breaking Bad empowered her to play role in financial thriller
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Making any film in the Mojave desert would be difficult – never mind with a wine-swigging, naked Depardieu in tow. Valley of Love director Guillaume Nicloux explains how he did it
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The standup comic and film-maker discusses Don’t Think Twice – his follow-up to Sleepwalk With Me – and why nixing a potential TV show was the right call
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The writer-director has mined the darkest of subjects from stalking to rape to paedophilia. In Wiener-Dog he turns his attention to dachshunds and death
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He’s in both the new Star Wars and Bourne films, but it’s Brexit not blockbusters that’s on the rapper-turned-actor’s mind
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The film-maker had had enough of making – and watching – documentaries about social ills, so decided to make a ‘feel-good’ movie about one of America’s most famous motivational speakers
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She has starred in Hollywood blockbusters, costume dramas and, now, The BFG – but despite leading a ‘charmed life’, the actor insists she’s not a ‘perfect, entitled luvvy’
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsMatt Damon: five best momentsAs the Oscar-winner returns to cinemas playing the amnesiac spy Jason Bourne, here’s a look back at his greatest performances
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The film quizThe film quizMatch the president to the movie – quizWith Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton engaging in real world battle to become the next US president, how well do you know their fictional counterparts?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportThe BFG towers over UK box office while Star Trek Beyond fails to prosperSpielberg’s Brit-friendly fantasy opens in the lead, as sci-fi sequel teleports itself to a rebooted series low
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentInternet Famous: vlogging gets the mockumentary treatmentYouTubers send up their profession in a satire that’s surprisingly self-assured
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!The best is silence: why Shakespeare in early film is worth celebratingAs a new DVD shows, in rare and innovative early adaptations of the Bard on film – even when condensed – you don’t need to hear the words to feel the quality
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsZootropolis; Disorder; 10 Cloverfield Lane; The End of the Tour; Stranger Things – reviewDisney’s crazy animal city entertains on many levels, while Winona Ryder is the star attraction in Stranger Things
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When former NFL player Steve Gleason was diagnosed with the muscle-debilitating disease, he started on a film project to explain ALS to his infant son
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Comic-Con is merely the first taste of everything you won’t be able to shut up about for the next year or two, from Wonder Woman to Rihanna in Bates Motel
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Re-enactments of the film’s big scenes enable a hyped-up, hula-hooping crowd in a sing-along with the atmosphere of a drunken sleepover
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They’ve focused obsessively on the lurid and even saw some directors charged for murder – yet a new season of mondo movies argues for their artistic merit
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Inspired by Ronald Blythe’s paean to Britain’s vanishing rural life, Akenfield was directed by Peter Hall to tell the story of ‘three generations in terms of work, belief, education and climate’
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Garry Marshall has died aged 81. Here’s a selection his many achievements as an actor, writer, producer, director and playwright
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Performing life-threatening stunts is scary enough – but to swordfight or crash into cars wearing skimpy costumes rather than padding requires a special kind of courage
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