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A big-screen adaptation of the Madness singer’s stage autobiography will combine live performance and archive clips with dramatised scenes
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The last two best picture Oscar-winners have premiered at Venice, part of a concerted bid to woo Hollywood that has revitalised the festival. LA-set musical La La Land, opening proceedings this year, is looking for the hat-trick
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When the French director decided to make Things to Come, a film based on her mother’s life starring Isabelle Huppert, she found there are some lines you can’t cross
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As Café Society hits the screen, the star talks about the ugly side of Hollywood, battling a shark, and why you need a loud voice to star in a Woody Allen film
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Enduring partnerships with Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner and Mel Brooks show Wilder’s gift wasn’t just his own mastery, but an ability to coax it from others, too
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The Fab Four rock, The Magnificent Seven reload, Obama goes on a date – and Bridget Jones gets the baby blues. Our arts preview continues with autumn’s unmissable films
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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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Wilder starred in classics such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and collaborated extensively with Mel Brooks in movies such as Young Frankenstein, The Producers and Blazing Saddles
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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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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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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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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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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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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 geekDeathstroke: the perfect Batman villain for DC's vision of violence?The super-strong mercenary could well be a canny choice of adversary for Ben Affleck’s murderous, morally unhinged version of Batman
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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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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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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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Deathstroke: the perfect Batman villain for DC's vision of violence?