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Divorce 'was very, very painful': Affleck on his breakdown and finding The Way Back
Taking on the role of a divorcee with a drinking problem was uncomfortably close to home for the actor.
- by Andrew Murfett
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The Way Back official movie trailer
Ben Affleck stars as a coach recovering from addiction in the basketball movie, The Way Back.
Film
The woman who built New York's 'herstory' archive recalls love and hate
Joan Nestle emerged from the activism of the '60s determined that New York's nascent lesbian culture should be honoured with an archive. So she made one.
- by Stephen A Russell
Review
Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new comedy quickly goes downhill
Our critics reviewed four movies being released this week. Which ones are worth the price of a ticket?
- by Jake Wilson, Sandra Hall and Paul Byrnes
Documentaries
Reviled ex-Russian oligarch, Citizen K, says he knows Putin's worst fear
For Russian democrats, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's refusal to give way to fear has made him a hero.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Coronavirus outbreak
New James Bond film No Time To Die postponed until November
The new James Bond film No Time To Die will now be released in November, as Hollywood scrambles to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
Review
Following the original, it's all Downhill
Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus play a couple whose marriage falls apart during a ski trip, in a cringe comedy that can't match its European source material.
- by Jake Wilson
Review
A strong Josh McConville gives war drama Escape and Evasion its punch
He may be big and bearish, but Josh McConville finds the patterns of guilt warping a soldier’s sense of self with a delicacy that keeps you with him every step of the way.
- by Sandra Hall
Review
Mark Ruffalo's tenacity stops legal thriller Dark Waters from sinking
The groundswell of dogged determination propelling this environmental thriller is so powerful that it deals effortlessly with the knotty tangle of facts.
- by Sandra Hall
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Film awards
When Roman Polanski wins a directing award, does the #MeToo movement lose?
At France's equivalent to the Academy Awards, convicted rapist Roman Polanski won the best director prize for his latest film, An Officer and a Spy.
- by Michael Phillips
Disney
Pixar breaks new ground with animated fantasy-story Onward
Animation studio Pixar is venturing into the world of fathers and sons with Onward.