movies
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Raw: I didn't faint in classy cannibal horror – but I didn't much fancy lunchThe flesh-eating movie that had them requiring ambulance intervention in Toronto never lets up. It’s also a complex drama of adulthood, sex, conformity, hazing, body image and lust -
Emily Blunt: women need to be less judgemental of each otherThe Girl on a Train star has spoken of her dislike of domestic competitiveness and distaste for the phrase: ‘Can she keep a man?’
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Curtis Hanson: a thrilling film-maker and effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood styleHanson got Meryl Streep whitewater rafting, Eminem to act and brought James Ellroy’s cult novel LA Confidential brilliantly to life on film -
Living the Hollywood high life: movie homes up for saleWant to live in Harry Potter’s childhood home, or the ‘horse’s head’ mansion from The Godfather? There’s an estate agent awaiting your call ...
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Could Passengers be the next Avatar, or will it disappear into a black hole?Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt as star-crossed lovers in space, there’s a lot riding on Passengers. Will it ascend to the box-office heavens?
fall film festivals
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Oscars 2017: five things we've learned about this year's race from TorontoLa La Land is still the one to beat, Emma Stone and Natalie Portman will go head-to-head and Birth of a Nation remains on shaky ground
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Why Hollywood musical La La Land will follow Argo and The Artist to the OscarsWhiplash director Damien Chazelle’s meta musical has won the Toronto film festival but its red carpet to the Academy Awards was already secure: Hollywood loves nothing more than a movie about how magical it is
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La La Land tipped for Oscars glory after win at Toronto film festivalMusical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone picks up festival’s People’s Choice award, as Lion and Queen of Katwe named runners up
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Souvenir review – Isabelle Huppert swaps Eurovision for paté and back againThis sugary comedy drama sees the actor in unusually light territory and while it’s ultimately little more than a soufflé, her presence makes it rise
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Oliver Stone turns true thrills into dated Hollywood fodderThe director’s dramatic retelling of the NSA whistleblower’s rise to infamy boasts a strong central performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt but its attempts to pander to a multiplex crowd are misjudged
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moptops conquer the worldRon Howard trashes the idea that there’s nothing new to say about the Beatles with a revealing survey of the four-year odyssey that changed everything
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Zellweger delivers in fun romp heavy with expectationBroad gags, choice turns and some terrific slapstick involving a hospital revolving door elevate a possibly opportunistic outing into a solid and satisfying comeback
video & audio
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Passengers: trailer for Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt sci-fi drama - videoJennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are two passengers on board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet.
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Hidden Figures: trailer for Nasa scientists biopic - videoHidden Figures reveals the key role of three African-American women working at NASA ahead of the 1962 orbit of the Earth
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Sam Neill on Hunt for the Wilderpeople co-star: 'I'm grumpy, he's annoying' – video interviewThe stars of surprise family comedy The Hunt for the Wilderpeople speak about their working relationship
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Amanda Knox: trailer for Netflix documentary – videoNetflix’s documentary on the American student convicted and then acquitted for the murder in 2007 in Italy of her British room-mate
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The Girl With All the Gifts: a clip from the zombie teen thriller – videoAdapted from MR Carey’s post-apocalyptic YA novel, The Girl With All the Gifts is set in a future society where a mysterious disease has turned almost everyone into zombie-like ‘hungries’ who feed on human flesh
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Edward Snowden: 'I'm willing to make a lot of sacrifices for my country' – video interviewNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tells the Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill why he should be granted a pardon by the US government
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Brangelina is over: can we kill Team Jolie v Team Jen feud, too?With the news Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are filing for divorce, the internet has revived an early 2000s rivalry – but 11 years later, it’s looking tired and sexist
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: a marriage that started – and ended – on screenThe impending divorce of Hollywood’s golden couple 12 years after their first film together comes just two years after By the Sea, a strange melodrama about a couple in meltdown that is hard not to now read as autobiography
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‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in HollywoodShe was the adorable little girl in Matilda and Mrs Doubtfire… then the phone stopped ringing. The former child star lifts the lid on hitting puberty in the public eye
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How dare you remake my classic! When directors attackWoe betide the Hollywood studio that revisits a classic film without the blessing of its original creative team. Because things can get ugly ...
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Little Men director Ira Sachs: 'I have a Marxist perspective'Drugs, gay marriage, gentrification – the writer-director turns big issues into intimate, uncomfortable dramas. He talks about growing up the son of a social scientist and life as a Hollywood outsider
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Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’Gemma Arterton knows just how sexist the film world can be. Over lunch, she tells Eva Wiseman she’s fixing her career – then two celebrity fans show up…
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Denzel Washington on diversity western The Magnificent Seven: ‘Audiences like to know who they’re rooting for’The veteran actor joins Chris Pratt to discuss his remake of the classic western. But why are they so keen to play down its obvious radical political subtext?
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Eight Days A Week: how Ron Howard brought the Beatles back to lifeHoward’s new film captures the sweat, screams and cultural significance of the band’s touring years. He explains why the Fab Four still fascinates him
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John Malkovich: ‘In relationships, I’ve had an addictive personality’The actor and director on addiction and success, Trump’s bankruptcies, and the film he wrote that no one will see for 100 years
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Diane Kruger: ‘I truly believe the best is yet to come’‘Too beautiful’… ‘ex-fashion model’… Will perennially underrated Diane Kruger finally throw off such disparaging tags with her new film, The Infiltrator?
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportBridget Jones's Baby delivers at UK box office, while Blair Witch sneaks into secondRenée Zellweger charms a homegrown audience and the horror franchise scares up a crowd, while cinemas show robust August returns
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentXOXO: how to make a movie for the under-20sFrom its EDM theme to the release model, it’s custom-made for today’s teens
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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 downloadsEverybody Wants Some!!; Green Room; Author: The JT LeRoy Story; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and more – reviewRichard Linklater’s snapshot of 80s college life is more than a simple exercise in nostalgia, while punks and neo-Nazis meet a grisly end
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Week in geekWeek in geekFive things we'd like to see in Man of Steel 2With reports that Superman might be on course for a new solo outing, perhaps it’s time Warner Bros brought back the ‘big blue boy scout’ we all know and love
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John PattersonJohn PattersonFrat's entertainment: why Animal House is still the king of college comediesIt may be tasteless, but National Lampoon captured the campus experience in a way no UK film has
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Frat's entertainment: why Animal House is still the king of college comediesIt may be tasteless, but National Lampoon captured the campus experience in a way no UK film has
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On my radar: Alfred Molina’s cultural highlightsThe stage and screen actor on the secret life of Eugene O’Neill, the singer Mayer Hawthorne, All About Eve and his favourite Los Angeles eaterie
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‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the USBarry Jenkins’ highly acclaimed new film follows one boy as he grows into manhood, hiding his sexuality. Here, the director and cast talk about the future Oscar contender
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XOXO: how to make a movie for the under-20sFrom its EDM theme to the release model, it’s custom-made for today’s teens
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Fifty Shades Darker – the first trailer deconstructedFrom painfully ejaculatory fireworks to dry-humping in the shower, Stuart Heritage provides a handy guide to the highlights of the new Fifty Shades film
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Alexis Arquette and The Lady Chablis: deaths a reminder of barriers they brokeThe two transgender women were activists and entertainers who dared to be themselves – and set the tone for future generations
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