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FILE - In this March 2, 2014, file photo, Martin Landau arrives at the 24th Night of 100 Stars Oscars Viewing Gala at ...

Oscar winner Martin Landau dies aged 89

Were it not for a stunning performance in the film Ed Wood in 1994, which won him an Oscar, actor Martin Landau might have had to settle with a couple of, admittedly memorable, genre hits, Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999, as his epitaph.

Mary Poppins steals the show at D23

Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns.

Coming more than 50 years after the original, Mary Poppins Returns eclipsed both Star Wars and Marvel for applause at the D23 Disney convention.

A saving grace

(From left) Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard and Fionn Whitehead as young soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk.

Director Christopher Nolan takes on an epic story from World War II with the help of Harry Styles.

Why this feminist is looking forward to a Barbie movie

Barbie dolls in various outfits at the makeshift Barbie museum, in 2004.

Everything about 2017, from the resurgence of racism and sexism in public life to Ivanka Trump's star turn as Julie Nixon Eisenhower, feels retro. So it makes a certain amount of sense that I find myself looking forward with pleasure and apprehension to a new movie about an old toy: Barbie is getting another shot at the big time. The way she's getting it says a lot about adults' anxieties about children's stories.

Film Short Cuts

My Life as a Zucchini.

My Life As a Zucchini, Battleship Potemkin, The Tales of Hoffman