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Which film won this year’s Palme d’Or? Did anyone not have a cameo in Absolutely Fabulous? Tackle these celluloid conundrums and more
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Performance more than doubles predictions for small-budget film, as latest inexpensive hit for Sony tops Suicide Squad
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The summer season has seen more than its share of box office flops, and nervous studios are already looking for the next big thing
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There will be a special salon at the event for viewing increasingly ambitious productions in the new immersive format
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Forbes have released their list of the world’s highest-paid female actors, and their combined total earnings are dwarfed by those of the men
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As Brotherhood hits cinemas, it’s time to say goodbye to a series that represented urban youth culture in an important and reflective way
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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 Guardian film team discuss the latest films hitting UK cinemas
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David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as real-life couple Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, who caused an international outcry when they married in 1948
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Acclaimed Japanese horror Ringu and its well-received US remake get updated for a digital audience with the cursed VHS now available online
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Mel Gibson tells Nigel M Smith about being an action dad, playing a guy in need of redemption and the time he tattooed a biker for fun
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Tom Hiddleston reads from John Le Carré The Night Manager
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The Guardian film team discuss the latest films hitting UK cinemas
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Watch a clip from the final film in Noel Clarke’s crime saga, which ends with west London ex-con Sam (Clarke) attempts to breakaway from his criminal life
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Corbyn, Trump, May ... outsider candidates have found themselves centre stage as never before. But there is a long screen tradition capturing the rise of the unforseen leader
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Studios are scrambling for new ways to describe their regurgitated fare, but will painting the old wagon with fresh paint stop the wheels falling off?
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Geek culture frowns on film-makers who play fast and loose with comic-book idols. But studios who shift a character’s ethnicity to reflect modern demographics must be applauded
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John Turturro resurrects Jesus Quintana, a proposed sequel to Barton Fink, and a third series of Fargo on TV ... As the pasticheurs become the pastiched, welcome to the ever expanding Coens cosmos
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The prolific director returns next month with Café Society and a TV series. Here, he talks exclusively about sex, antisemitism, the impact of that abuse allegation – and his dream of racing Usain Bolt
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The killer caravanner from Sightseers is now playing a homicidal mother-to-be in Prevenge, her directorial debut. She talks about creating an anti-superheroine and her fear of being pigeonholed
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The director’s new film tells the true story of two weapons wheeler-dealers who get hired by the Pentagon. It’s a long way from the usual frat boy hijinks
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The director of White Girl partied herself into oblivion as a teenager. Now she’s turned that experience into an unflinching account of a young woman’s sex-and-drugs lifestyle that addresses class, racism and white privilege
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He survived a car crash, lost two friends then found fame in the Oscar-winning Whiplash. Tim Lewis meets Miles Teller, whose success is shadowed by reports of ‘dickishness’
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The actor behind Star Wars’s beloved droid died last weekend. James Innes-Smith remembers a cab ride with the star 10 years ago, in which he spoke of his music-hall roots, being typecast and his fractious relationship with C-3P0
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The actor talks about directing herself, the things she learned from Terrence Malick and Mike Nichols, and making a tourist trip to the Star Wars universe
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UK box office reportUK box office reportCringe, little benefit: David Brent flounders in Finding Dory's wakeLife on the Road earns Ricky Gervais’s aspiring musician £1.5m in ticket sales, while Finding Dory overtakes Suicide Squad and swims back to No 1
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentSuper Deluxe: meet the 'creative weirdos' remixing Trump and ClintonThe Youtube channel has found viral fame with its chopped-up videos of the US Presidential candidates, and is making satire great again in the process
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Sunset Boulevard: what Billy Wilder's satire really tells us about HollywoodThe scathing black comedy offers up bitterness and grotesquery but also a revealing, and complicated, look at the end of the silent era
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsDemolition; Ratchet & Clank; Golden Years; Sid and Nancy; Hangmen Also Die!; People of the Mountains – reviewWidowed banker Jake Gyllenhaal takes a hammer to his past in a week dominated by reissues, among them Alex Cox’s feral Sid Vicious film
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Week in geekWeek in geekSpider-Man's colourblind casting: a case of when it's OK to break with the canonGeek culture frowns on film-makers who play fast and loose with comic-book idols. But studios who shift a character’s ethnicity to reflect modern demographics must be applauded
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John PattersonJohn PattersonSausage Party: a delicious grocer-out comedySeth Rogen and Evan Golberg’s superb animated comedy is rude, crude and all about food. Oh, and definitely not for kids
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The latest crop of big-budget summer films have fared dismally because the big studios are betting more money on fewer films. A flop is now a very expensive flop
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From Chakra the Invincible to, er, Pancake Man, meet the new global superheroes giving the US studio a run for its money
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The Oscar-winner’s latest thriller suggests that mass destruction is the best way of finding your kidnapped child while avoiding the help of police
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Todd Solondz: ‘The second day on set, Dawn had to kiss her tormentor. It was Heather’s first kiss’
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The London-set coming-of-age drama desperately wants to be radical, but it’s characters are too comfortably-off to be convincing
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Two years after the murder of photojournalist James Foley by Isis, an intimate documentary aims to reclaim the man
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The actor’s acrimonious split from Amber Heard is just the latest chapter in a life that has been reluctantly played out in public
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Gene Wilder: a wild, inspired and sensitive actor who ran on rocket fuel
Gene Wilder, a generation's Willy Wonka and star of Mel Brooks comedies, dies aged 83