movies
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California Dreams review: docu-drama crosses line between art and exploitationMike Ott’s semi-documentary, about delusional people with dreams of making it big in Hollywood, is beautifully filmed but snickering and uncomfortable -
Sally Potter: 'The Party is the opposite of Brexit'The British director of the star-studded political comedy, which premiered at Berlin film festival, says it is ‘absolutely a political statement’ about ‘a broken England’
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Erase and Forget: new documentary reveals life story of the real RamboVietnam veteran ‘Bo’ Gritz went on covert operations in Panama, recovered POWs in Burma and even ran for president. Andrea Luka Zimmerman spent 10 years creating a cinematic portrait of the war hero turned whistleblower -
Uzbekistan bans film over absence of Morgan FreemanAction thriller Daydi has been pulled from cinemas after promotional posters featuring the actor turned out to be misleading
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#OscarsSoWorthy: should the biggest blockbuster bag best picture instead?James Cameron has called the Oscars biased, but should box-office smash hits like his really be rewarded with prizes?
best films of 2016
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The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: the full listThe Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the US this year
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The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 1 MoonlightOur countdown of 2016’s top films concludes as Benjamin Lee salutes a poetic and poignant movie that depicted the life of a gay black man with heart-swelling humanity
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The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 2 Toni ErdmannAs our countdown nears its conclusion, Catherine Shoard picks – in joint second place – a German comedy that pokes extravagant fun at work, life and imbalanced family ties
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submissive sequel offers little light relief but lots of washingEL James’s panting couple are back – but director Sam Taylor-Johnson is not – in this daft yet dull S&M soap
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funny, exciting and packed with gagsThis sophisticated pop culture adventure set in a world of Lego bricks just might rescue DC Comics’ battered reputation
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Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romanceA strange, shameful chapter of history is dusted off by Amma Assante to make this earnestly stirring Empire drama
video & audio
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Annette Bening: 'We can all learn a lot from Jimmy Carter' – video interviewThe star of Mike Mills’s Oscar-nominated 20th Century Women speaks of her admiration for the former president
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Academy Award nominees pose for group photo at Oscars lunch – videoThe Academy Award nominees class of 2016 pose for a photograph on Monday during the Oscars luncheon in Beverly Hills, California
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The Lego Batman Movie: trailer for superhero spin-off – videoThe Lego Batman Movie finds the Dark Knight not only dealing with the criminals of Gotham City, but also the responsibility of the boy he adopted
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Don't Take Me Home trailer: documentary follows Wales's incredible Euro 2016 – videoDon’t Take Me Home tells the incredible story of Wales’ Euro 2016 campaign in France where Chris Coleman’s side reached the last four the tournament
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Jeff Nichols on Loving: 'Everyone's picking a side' – video interviewThe director of Oscar-nominated civil rights drama Loving discusses how society needs to rise above the lowest impulses of human nature
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Beauty and the Beast: final trailer features more footage and a duet – videoThe final trailer for the Disney’s live-action adaptation of the 1991 animated classic features new footage as well as Ariana Grande and John Legend’s duet
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Seven things we learned from a surprising yet vanilla BaftasLa La Land shouldn’t count its chickens, actors should compare notes before they soapbox identically – and we Brits need to know who, or what, Jim Crow was
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The awards, the speeches and the frocks: Baftas 2017 - as it happenedKen Loach, Viola Davis and Emma Stone were among the award-winners at this year’s British Academy film awards
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Oh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truthOf course you never see the real person when you fall for someone; you see a self-flattering illusion, and this is triply true with celebrity crushes
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John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornographyThe sequel to the Keanu Reeves sleeper hit might be efficiently slick but its obsession with weaponry leaves a nasty taste in the mouth
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John Waters: ‘A new kind of anarchy is going to happen next’The Hairspray director is famed for his boundary-trashing B-movies but he hopes Trump’s presidency will inspire the next wave of punk-rock film-makers
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Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’He uses a walker, and a stroke has affected his speech, but the old charm is still there as the actor recalls his old Hollywood friends Burt Lancaster and John Wayne – and how he was never really a tough guy
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Lily Gladstone: ‘I lived in the reservations until I was 11’The Native American actor and breakout star of Certain Women on stereotyped casting, her famous forebears and horseback riding with Kristen Stewart
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Mel Brooks: ‘Donald Trump doesn't scare me. He's a song-and-dance man'One of America’s great comics for the past 60 years, the maker of films Blazing Saddles and The Producers talks about why he can’t take the president seriously – and the White House sidekicks that are no laughing matter
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Octavia Spencer: ‘You need to see people of colour in big movies’The Oscar-winning actor is nominated again for box-office smash Hidden Figures, the story of Nasa’s black female mathematicians. She talks about diversity, her mentor Whoopi Goldberg – and being a control freak
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Moonlight becomes him: Barry Jenkins's journey from a Miami housing project to the OscarsHe had a hand-to-mouth childhood in a rough neighbourhood, then went to a football college. So how did the 37-year-old end up making the film of the year?
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportT2 Trainspotting gets high on UK box office's adults-only chartDanny Boyle’s sequel still tailing family favourite Sing while challenging his original cult hit on the all-time 18-certificate list
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainment555: would you pay good money for a hipster sketch series?Vimeo are the next streaming site to do original programming, but their surreal show about a bunch of Hollywood misfits could be worth coughing up for
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Mark Kermode's film of the weekMark Kermode's film of the weekPrevenge review – audacious horror from a mother of inventionWriter-director Alice Lowe stars as an expectant mother urged into a killing spree by her unborn baby
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsCameraperson; Trolls; We Are the Flesh; Blood Father; Cover Girl; The Demons – reviewKirsten Johnson’s remarkable debut is an intimate look at life behind the lens, while Trolls charms, briefly, thanks to its Glee-style songs
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Week in geekWeek in geekIn space, no one can hear you steal: is new sci-fi film Life just an Alien remake?Hollywood has caught the sci-fi bug again. But can the forthcoming space thriller improve on Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror, or will it be just another Inseminoid?
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John PattersonJohn Patterson#OscarsSoWorthy: should the biggest blockbuster bag best picture instead?James Cameron has called the Oscars biased, but should box-office smash hits like his really be rewarded with prizes?
you may have missed
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La La Land's success heralds return to Lionsgate's small-scale rootsThe film studio has been known for adventures such as the Hunger Games – but the musical hit hints at a new Hollywood trend: smaller is bigger
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I, Daniel Blake 'doesn’t represent reality', says jobcentre managerExclusive: Boss at Newcastle agency shown in Ken Loach hit criticises how it is portrayed but director says film was fair
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Django review – jazz great's war story fails to find its rhythmHe jammed for the Nazis and aided the resistance, but this tale of guitar genius Django Reinhardt’s war falls flat due to slack tempo and poor characterisation
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A Cure for Wellness review – evil spa horror has eels, incest and aqua aerobicsAn alternately intriguing and frustrating chiller has flashes of elegance but settles for unhinged hokum with bizarre results
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Most cringeworthy moment and best drunken speech … Peter Bradshaw's awards show awardsFilm awards season is gathering pace, so we’re taking a moment to look back and salute Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando for livening up ceremonies without even being there and Miss Piggy for owning the red carpet
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Sorry, Batfleck: Lego Batman is the only Dark Knight that matters nowThe smart animated spinoff has a far better understanding of the character’s essential mythology than last year’s silly, swaggering Batman v Superman
My Baftas adventure: Dev Patel, liquid diabetes and clapping injuries
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