Movies
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Disney’s deal is a fightback against tech industry, Netflix and Amazon. Six changes to expect …
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Film-makers are under pressure from Hollywood to snip a nude scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden, reports say -
Richard E Grant confirms that the actor’s departure, six days before shooting began, was due to a dispute over prosthetics -
In Us, Jordan Peele shuns ominous chords for a breezy ditty – and follows in the bloody footsteps of film-making greats -
2 out of 5 stars.
Five Feet Apart Sickly teen romance dies a slow death
2 out of 5 stars.A pair of lovestruck hospital patients trade love letters and latex gloves in cinema’s latest exercise in morbid mawkishness
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4 out of 5 stars.
Us – Jordan Peele's brash and brilliant beach holiday horror
4 out of 5 stars.Peele’s follow-up to Get Out is a superb doppelganger satire of the American dream, with Lupita Nyong’o delivering a magnificent performance -
4 out of 5 stars.
Hotel Mumbai – Dev Patel terror story is an unlikely crowd-pleaser
4 out of 5 stars.Patel is subdued yet excellent in Anthony Maras’s white-knuckle retelling of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks -
4 out of 5 stars.
Sunset – intrigue and terror as the shadow of war falls on Budapest
4 out of 5 stars.Son of Saul director László Nemes deftly conjures the death throes of the Austro-Hungarian empire in an atmospheric mystery drama
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Yardie – Idris Elba brings precision to London crime classic
3 out of 5 stars.
Video & audio
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Leaving Neverland has reopened the debate around the pop star's legacy
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Green Book has been dogged by controversy and its handling of race has been criticised as conforming to Hollywood's 'white saviour' trope
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Watch the best bits from the Academy Awards 2019. Hear Spike Lee's heartfelt political speech, Lady Gaga's emotional tribute to Bradley Cooper and Olivia Colman's apology to Glenn Close
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Olivia Colman behings her emotional speech for best actress by saying he experience of winning was “genuinely quite stressful” and that “this is hilarious! I’ve got an Oscar!".
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Upon hearing the news he has won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for his film BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee jumps into Samuel L Jackon’s arms as he goes on stage.
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The filmmaker said he was disturbed and upset by the actor saying he had wanted to seek vengeance on a black person after the rape of a friend. Neeson starred in McQueen’s film Widows last year
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In Dragged Across Concrete, the disgraced actor stars as a violent cop in a thriller that’s a well-crafted but furiously antagonistic rant -
Screenwriter Eric Roth says his sequel to the Tom Hanks Oscar magnet was scuppered by 9/11, but Forrest would be entirely at home in the Trump and Brexit era -
This cartoon-like demonstration of alpha-capitalism will lead to stricter, safer and blander entertainment – and with each acquisition, the stakes get higher -
In Captain Marvel, Brie Larson’s hero is the latest in a long line of white MCU superheroes backed up by a supportive, underdeveloped character of color
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The actor and activist, 45, on freeing herself from her family, growing up in a cult and the nature of celebrity -
The actor on his Notting Hill childhood, his role in Fisherman’s Friends – and the best advice he’s ever been given -
The Oscar-winning director presents a sympathetic portrait of the Silicon Valley CEO who fooled the world into believing she had built a better blood test
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The comedian is neurotic, searingly honest and very funny. But has he finally learned to love himself? He talks to Eva Wiseman about his new film, tricky fathers and being a big cat -
She’s Hollywood royalty – he’s a rapidly rising star. In Ben Is Back, they play mother and drug-addicted son – and here talk Pretty Woman, Meghan Markle and sexual fluidity -
The Essex-born actor, who stars in new film Fisherman’s Friends, says he is firmly in the non-racist camp, and doesn’t want to kill anyone. What else does he have to say?
Regulars
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Brie Larson vehicle overtakes lifetime total of many Marvel films, while Britcom Fisherman’s Friends sails into second place -
3 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Girl review – the struggles of a transgender ballet dancer
3 out of 5 stars.Lukas Dhont’s controversial film about a trans teenager’s dream to dance is an engaging and sympathetic drama, with an excellent central performance
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The decade’s greatest US film never to have been seen in UK cinemas has been released without fanfare on BFI Player -
Dominated by new character Forky, a spork having an existential crisis, the latest trailer may reveal the institution that launched Pixar is running into trouble
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As an adolescent misfit, Hadley Freeman fell in love with the warped movie worlds of Tim Burton. What happened when she met Danny DeVito, Colin Farrell and her idol himself? -
The grave of French film pioneer Georges Méliès, who inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film Hugo, has fallen into disrepair. Now his family and fans are reanimating his fantastical legacy
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Sebastián Lelio has transported his drama Gloria to the US with Gloria Bell, the latest in a long line of film-makers taking a second stab at earlier work -
Sweden-based Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s new film features quasi-Neanderthal misfits making love in the woods and asks what it is to be human -
The sport has drama, showmanship, and gender equality – as the film Fighting With My Family proves. Yet, because it’s working class, it’s marginalised, writes director Stephen Merchant
Shazam! Kid-friendly DC adventure is enjoyably old school
3 out of 5 stars.