movies
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Elle review – revenge of an ice queenIsabelle Huppert is astonishing as a rape victim who tracks down her assailant in Paul Verhoeven’s provocative psychodrama
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Emma Watson: feminist to the core or a carefully polished brand?Film industry sexism fired a commitment to feminism in the star, next in Beauty and the Beast. But, despite a UN women’s role, some are unconvinced of her dedication to the cause -
Reese Witherspoon: how she became Hollywood’s most powerful womanAs Big Little Lies opens on Sky Atlantic, its star and producer explains why she’s ‘changing the dynamic’ for women on screen -
Terrence Malick returns to form with lyrical love triangleThe divisive film-maker adds story to swirling camerawork as Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling cross paths in the Texas music scene
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Kong: Skull Island – Vietnam, giant spiders and Godzilla. Discuss with spoilersOpinion on the latest reboot of the King Kong story has been split between US and UK critics. So is it a turkey or a triumph?
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only de-evolution can explain this zestless mashupTom Hiddleston’s talents are lost in this jumbled jungle caper that repeatedly indulges in anti-climax and silliness
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Kristen Stewart's psychic spooker is a must-haveCannes gets its first marmite sensation with Olivier Assayas’s uncategorisable – yet undeniably terrifying – drama about a fashion PA trying to exorcise herself of her dead twin
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Louis Theroux gets smart with the cult churchAll sorts of weird stuff starts happening as Theroux reiterates the sheer nastiness of the organisation in his provocative documentary
video & audio
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Fake Ryan Gosling accepts German film award after convoluted prank – videoNicole Kidman, Jane Fonda and Colin Farrell were perplexed when the Ryan Gosling impersonator accepted the award
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'Man is not infallible': Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L Jackson on Kong: Skull Island – videoKong: Skull Island is a reboot of the celebrated giant-ape movie, with Hiddleston as a former British soldier and Jackson is an American air force pilot
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Emma Watson: Vanity Fair photo does not undermine feminism – videoThe actor Emma Watson hits back at critics who say she has betrayed her feminist ideals by posing for a revealing picture in Vanity Fair magazine, in which parts of her breasts were exposed
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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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Black American actors slighted as Brits nab roles: 'We can't tell our own stories?'The casting of black British actor Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out, a horror film about racism in America, has sparked debate about a trend some find troubling
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A theater chain wants to add jungle gyms to movie screens. It's a bad ideaCinépolis Junior chains will oversee the latest innovation in movie theater gimmickry: kids distracted with a play area as they watch the latest Pixar film
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi – the five most outlandish fan theoriesWe know very little about The Last Jedi, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from guessing. It seems fake news is just as prevalent in a galaxy far, far away
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After the Moonlight fades: what's next for LGBT cinemaThe shock Oscar win of the low-budget drama about a black gay man’s life has set in motion a year that might finally provide a substantive view of sexuality
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Our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queenTwenty years after the brutal murder of a six-year-old, Kitty Green’s inventive film examines the story from a new angle
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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
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportLogan sinks claws into top spot at UK box officeHugh Jackman’s third Wolverine adventure delivers the best opening for an X-Men movie as Lego Batman blocks the rise of Viceroy’s House
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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 weekElle review – revenge of an ice queenIsabelle Huppert is astonishing as a rape victim who tracks down her assailant in Paul Verhoeven’s provocative psychodrama
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsNocturnal Animals; The Light Between Oceans; The Accountant and more – reviewAmy Adams is caught between life and a lifestyle in Tom Ford’s luxurious melodrama, while Ben Affleck is perfect as a nasty numbers guy
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Week in geekWeek in geekWhy X-Men is right to ditch Magneto and Professor X's tired double actNo other superhero saga has relied so heavily on the same duo. And audiences are far more interested now in seeing Wolverine teamed with Deadpool
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John PattersonJohn PattersonUnderground is the history lesson America (and Ben Carson) needsNow in its second season, the underground railroad drama is a slick yet complex look at one of the least examined stories of the antebellum south
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Why Antonioni’s Blow-Up thrills 50 years onThe flawed but absorbing 60s movie about a photographer who unwittingly captures a murder scene still poses important questions
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Six surveillance films to make Trump paranoidFrom All the President’s Men to the Bourne series, wiretapping is widespread in Hollywood. No wonder Trump is twitchy …
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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?
Cillian Murphy: ‘It is getting absurd with the dumbing down'