Movies
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Liam Neeson says harassment allegations are now 'a witch-hunt'Hollywood A-lister suggests the treatment of some celebrities, such as Garrison Keillor, has been excessive
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Rebecca Hall says she won't work with Woody Allen againActor apologizes for role in Allen’s new film and will donate wages to Time’s Up initiative: ‘My actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed’ -
Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Quentin Tarantino's Charles Manson movieThe Oscar winner will play an aging actor in Tarantino’s ninth movie, with Margot Robbie reportedly being lined up to play Sharon Tate -
Star accused of raping teenage actor in 1993Regina Simons, who worked as an extra on the film On Deadly Ground, becomes latest woman to allege sexual misconduct against Hollywood star
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Gettin' vloggy with it: how YouTube might save Will Smith's careerThe star has faced a string of stumbles on the big screen but in a new, surprisingly intimate series of videos he’s finding a smart way to connect with fans
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Insidious: The Last Key – horror prequel fails to unlock scaresThe latest entry in the wearying supernatural series squanders its intriguing protagonist (a 74-year-old woman) and instead, regurgitates familiar tropes
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The Post – Streep and Hanks scoop the honours in Spielberg's big-hearted storyTom Hanks and Meryl Streep star as Washington Post bigwigs fighting to expose government lies about the Vietnam war in the director’s timely drama
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The Greatest Showman – Hugh Jackman puts on a show in cheesy, charming musicalJackman plays 19th century PT Barnum in a crowd-pleasing if middle-of-the-road film that paints the circus impresario as a body-positive evangelist for diversity
Video & Audio
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James Franco discusses recent sexual misconduct allegations – video
James Franco responds to recent sexual misconduct allegations made against him on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music? – video
By building up tracks through the manipulation of programming code – and pairing them with visuals also made on the fly – algorave producers are among the underground's most dextrous and daring work. Iman Amrani heads to Sheffield to meet those at the heart of the scene
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Watch the trailer for The Florida Project – videoThe Florida Project is the latest film from director Sean Baker, written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Willem Dafoe. Set in a motel in Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows the lives of deprived children living near Walt Disney World
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Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce reunite in Swinging Safari – trailer
The upcoming comedy from writer/director Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Welcome to Woop Woop) reunites Minogue with her former Neighbours co-star and takes a sepia-tinted look at 1970s Australia
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Rose McGowan: 'I have been silenced for 20 years' – videoRose McGowan, the actor who has accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, made her first public comments since the allegations on Friday
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Harvey Weinstein accused of rape by actor Natassia Malthe – videoActor Natassia Malthe tells reporters that Weinstein barged into her London hotel room late at night in 2008 and forced himself on her
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Death wears Mickey Mouse ears: how Disney is doing parents a favourEver since Bambi’s mother was shot, cinema has been teaching young audiences about mortality. Pixar’s new blockbuster, Coco, is the most sobering yet
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Wonder women: how female action heroes will blast cinema screens in 2018This year’s movie slate suggests a sudden industry interest in female-driven blockbusters. But is this a response to the Weinstein revelations? Or does it boil down to hard cash?
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Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018?Looking back through Hollywood’s sci-fi vaults, films from Rollerball to Terminator: Salvation offer a bleak view of the year ahead
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How Phantom Thread undresses our ideas about toxic masculinityPaul Thomas Anderson’s sly and subversive romance presents us with a tortured male creative genius but surprises us with what’s in store for him
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Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: 'He's a very good actor. It's a pity'All the Money in the World was in the can and ‘kind of perfect’ when its star became toxic. The director wasted no time recasting the role, but not necessarily for moral reasons ...
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Tracy Letts: ‘Freedom of speech is under attack’American playwright and actor Tracy Letts talks about his childhood, his addictions, and appearing with Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s new political thriller, The Post
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Christian Bale: 'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds'The actor, famous for playing brooding, damaged men, is back playing, well, a brooding, damaged man in the gritty western Hostiles. He talks about why the film industry has to change, balding up to play Dick Cheney – and why he will never, ever, do a romcom
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Caleb Landry Jones: ‘Working with Frances McDormand terrified me’Hollywood’s ‘go-to oddball’ on his new movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, his intense acting style and why Syd Barrett is his guy
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Turning 50 felt great… I was, like, so where’s the party?The star of Little Women on her role in the BBC’s Little Women, why binge TV is good for female actors – and the virtues of Arsène Wenger
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When I heard I could swear, I was like “YeeHAW!”The seven-year-old actor, who steals the show as the little girl in Sean Baker’s realist drama, can’t wait to hit the red carpet come Oscars time
Regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle swings past the Last Jedi at UK box officeDwayne Johnson action comedy is top of the tree as crowd-pleasing musical The Greatest Showman chases La La Land’s record
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Mark Kermode's film of the weekMark Kermode's film of the weekHostiles review – hail to the chief on a dark western odysseyWes Studi gives a towering performance as an ageing Cheyenne leader being escorted home in Scott Cooper’s revisionist tale of the old west
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsDVD and download reviews: World of Tomorrow Episode Two; Good Time; Detroit; UnaA philosophical animated short offers beautiful brain-teasing, Robert Pattinson excels in a heist thriller, and Kathryn Bigelow revisits a riot
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Week in geekWeek in geekApocalypse now: what happens when the X-Men crash the Marvel Cinematic Universe?Disney’s $66bn deal to buy Fox offers the prospect of Wolverine and Deadpool meeting Spider-Man and the Avengers. But be careful what you wish for …
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Steve Rose on filmSteve Rose on filmHugh Jackman’s new film celebrates PT Barnum – but let’s not airbrush historyThe actor has painted the protagonist of The Greatest Showman as a cheerleader for outsiders, but the 19th-century impresario found fame by exploiting circus ‘freaks’
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Meet Tommy Maitland, the legendary English TV host (AKA Mike Myers)The actor has been wearing heavy prosthetics to front ABC’s The Gong Show since last June, but his name has never appeared in the credits – until now
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Slender Man trailer: a mythical monster worth the wait? Fat chanceMaggots, creaking doors, lots of head-jerking … Looks like all the scariest bits have been crammed into this taster for a dubious take on the urban legend
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The 40 rising film stars of 2018From the first black woman to win an comedy Emmy to the trans actor tipped for Oscars glory, these are the 40 names virtually assured of success in the coming 12 months
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Mark Kermode’s best films of 2017Cannibalism in France, a latterday Our Gang in Florida, three women in Tel Aviv, and, at last, a Blade Runner sequel are among the year’s must-sees
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The French Aids drama showing Hollywood how to capture gay historyThe Oscar-buzzed film is refreshingly queer, filled with an authenticity that sanitised disappointments such as Dallas Buyers Club and Stonewall still fail to include
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How The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truthArmando Iannucci’s new film is a romp through some of the darkest days of the 20th century. But, asks one historian, is farce really the best way to understand the dictator’s murderous regime – or its legacy in Russia today?
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