movies
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Why Beauty and the Beast isn't the first Disney movie for LGBT audiencesThe studio has promised fans its first ‘exclusively gay moment’ in the live-action fairytale but that betrays a history of covert messages in its animated films
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'Fired by pathetic ratings': Trump blasts Schwarzenegger over Celebrity ApprenticeAfter former California governor quits and blames president for reality show’s poor performance, Trump takes break from affairs of state to answer back -
Gurinder Chadha: My film has been wilfully misrepresented as anti-MuslimThe director of Viceroy’s House argues that her film about India’s partition of 1947, far from ignoring the freedom struggle, celebrates it -
Emma Watson makes a perfect Belle in sugar-rush romanceWatson star cuts a demure, doll-like figure in Disney’s live-action remake, which features an outbreak of starry cameos and the world’s briefest gay reveal
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Hampstead: will filmgoers be flocking to the heath – or running for the hills?There’s bereavement, bonding and a Hairy Biker lookalike in the trailer for Diane Keaton’s romcom, which threatens to ‘do a Notting Hill’ for leafy north London
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Hugh Jackman's Wolverine enters a winter of X-Men discontentThe third and final Wolverine film is a poignant study of ageing and infirmity, as the arthritic mutant holes up in Mexico with a declining Professor Xavier
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ultra-violent Indonesian action-thrillerBad guys go on the rampage in this stylish and excessively gory iteration of the action genre
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divorce yourself from this unfunny wedding comedyAnna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow and Stephen Merchant are all wasted in an embarrassingly tone-deaf film filled with thin characters and bad writing
video & audio
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Get Out: trailer for Jordan Peele’s comedy horror – videoGet Out is Jordan Peele’s debut directorial feature about a young African-American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams as the couple
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Logan's Hugh Jackman: 'People think it’s easier to stay in your own backyard' – video interviewHugh Jackman talks about Logan, his final outing as X-Men Wolverine, and why he thinks previous films didn’t do the character justice
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Who had the card? Jimmy Kimmel explains Oscars mix up – videoJimmy Kimmel, the host of one of the most eventful Oscars ceremonies in history, explains how the best film fiasco took place.
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Moonlight stars say Oscars blunder ‘disrespectful to La La Land' – videoMoonlight stars Trevante Rhodes and Ashton Sanders discuss Sunday night’s blunder at the Oscars in which La La Land was mistakenly awarded Best Picture, when in fact Moonlight had won the award
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White Helmets dedicate Oscar to humanitarian workers – videoRaed al-Saleh, the head of the White Helmets – a volunteer rescue group that operates in rebel-held parts of Syria, gives an acceptance speech from Syria
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La La Land mistakenly named best picture – videoMoonlight has won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset that saw Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty reading out the wrong winner.
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Logan: Hugh Jackman's X-Men farewell, mini-mutants – discuss with spoilersIt’s got great reviews, but how does Logan fit in to the X-Men-verse, and can a pre-teen girl move the franchise into the future?
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Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero filmsBatman v Superman v Captain America v all of the X-Men. Which cape-wearing, civilian-saving adventures are worth cheering?
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Alien: Covenant trailer: five things we've learned about the xenomorph sagaThe Covenant crew are more intent on getting drunk than contemplating the cosmos, and the Engineers have reason to have beef with mankind
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Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in AmericaJordan Peele’s critically acclaimed low-budget shocker became a surprise hit and showed viewers a terrifying look at the fractured myth of a post-racial US
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The Love Witch director Anna Biller: ‘I’m in conversation with the pornography all around us’Biller’s latest film is a stylish feminist fantasy of witchcraft in the modern era – and, she says, Trump has made it more relevant than ever
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Susan Sarandon: 'It’s an easy place to put your frustrations, to blame me'The actor discusses playing Bette Davis in the new small-screen drama Feud and why she’s tired of people criticizing her for refusing to support Hillary Clinton
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Kelly Reichardt: 'Faster, faster, faster – we all want things faster'The Certain Women director on why she cast Michelle Williams and Kristen Stewart in her latest dose of ‘slow cinema’, adapted from Maile Meloy’s stories
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Salmon Oscars and five gallons of hot fudge: catering for the Academy AwardsCelebrity chef Wolfgang Puck has the unenviable task of feeding an army of stars, guests and workers on Oscars night. He discusses shopping with 50 tractor trailers and tickling John Travolta’s tastebuds
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Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'My mother saw my face after 25 years'When he was five, he fell asleep on a train and ended up 1,000 miles from home. His journey from Indian street-child to adopted Australian is now the subject of an Oscar-tipped film. Here he and his biological mother talk about their reunion
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Isabelle Huppert: 'Men aren't afraid of women the way women are afraid of men'France’s arthouse star has received her first Oscar nomination for the rape revenge thriller Elle. She explains why her character is a ‘post-feminist heroine’ – and why she wanted the controversial role that Hollywood actors wouldn’t touch
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportPatriots Day lags as Lego Batman outshines Fifty Shades at UK box officeReal-life drama about the Boston marathon bombings starring Mark Wahlberg underwhelms as top six titles cling to their chart positions
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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 weekMoonlight review – a five-star symphony of loveBarry Jenkins’s Oscar-nominated coming-of-age film is a heartbreaking, uplifting, minor-key masterpiece
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsYou be the judge: how to watch the Oscar hopefulsOur guide to where to find this year’s Oscar films on UK streaming services
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Week in geekWeek in geekDisney's 'clean' Star Wars release could have a sting in the taleMany of George Lucas’s additions to the special edition Star Wars trilogy were heinous. But those keen to see such tweaks reversed should be careful what they wish for
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John PattersonJohn PattersonThe Love Witch director Anna Biller: ‘I’m in conversation with the pornography all around us’Biller’s latest film is a stylish feminist fantasy of witchcraft in the modern era – and, she says, Trump has made it more relevant than ever
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Mr Gay Syria: ‘A beauty contest in this crisis? It’s a way of surviving’Gay Syrians have suffered horrific persecution under Isis. But a new documentary by Turkish director Ayşe Toprak about a beauty contest, Mr Gay Syria, hopes to follow Moonlight in changing perceptions
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Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the OscarsThe Guardian film critic’s first Academy Awards ceremony delivered selfies, supercharged excitement and an upset that left everyone dazed
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The 2017 Oscars afterparties – in picturesAfter a chaotic ceremony, in which Moonlight eclipsed La La Land at the eleventh hour to win best picture, where did Emma Stone, Barry Jenkins and other stars head to, clutching their Oscars tightly?
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Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity droughtWith Moonlight, Hidden Figures and Fences in the running, Hollywood appears to have responded positively to last year’s protests. But is it just lip service? And could measures to promote diversity go too far?
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A brief history of the Oscars in viral moments they want you to forgetThe shocks, the cockups, the stumbles … and anything involving John Travolta. We relive the moments everyone secretly hopes for
Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions