movies
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Three unlikely heroes take to the road in this broad but pleasing picturesque (think Sideways sans pathos), featuring improbable sex and a kooky cameo from Michel Houellebecq
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The actor has revealed her plans for a forthcoming break in order to focus on personal development and self-taught gender studies by reading a book a week
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The star of acclaimed new comedy drama I’ll See You in my Dreams talks about a more relaxed attitude to the older generation having sex on screen and how her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow might convince her to steam her vagina
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These are strange times for streaming, as rival services take opposing approaches to exclusive film rights
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As the Oscar nominee stars alongside Julianne Moore in equal-rights drama Freeheld, here’s a look back on a young career of mature performances
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In the first of her new columns lifting the lid on the film and TV industry, an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actor recalls where it all started for her
Road to the Oscars
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Harriet Gibsone makes the case for The Martian – a realistic outer-space survival story in which Matt Damon plays a stranded astronaut
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Films with higher rates of diversity tend to have higher box office numbers and that analysts consistently underestimate black audiences
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The Revenant, The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road and even The Big Short all reflect an end-of-days mood in both the natural and political world
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Andrew Pulver makes the case for Spotlight, the true story of the Boston Globe’s investigation that exposed sex abuse by Catholic priests
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Joseph Fiennes’s Roman soldier goes on the hunt for a missing body and finds Jesus in this retelling of the crucifixion, which despite scripting sins is heaven compared with other religious films
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Robert Eggers’s horror film about a child’s abduction and a Puritan family’s descent into hysteria delivers high-wire tension amid heightened dialogue
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This tale of Owens’ 1936 Berlin Olympics glory is slow around the track, dragging a tedious love plot, a rote coach-runner relationship and tone-deaf comparisons of America with genocidal Germany
video & audio
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The film team review this week’s big releases, including Rebel Wilson rabble-rousing as dating pro and Kurt Russell chasing cannibals across the American west
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The Dailies podcastThe Dailies podcastIñárritu's 'bad decision' and Tim Roth's comeback – the Dailies podcastThe Guardian film team’s roundup of Thursday’s movie news
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Author Harper Lee attended the first-ever screening in 1962 of the cinematic version of her book To Kill a Mockingbird
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The film team review this week’s big releases, including Rebel Wilson rabble-rousing as dating pro and Kurt Russell chasing cannibals across the American west
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The film team review a rom-com starring Dakota Johnson as a freshly separated New Yorker who must be taught the rules of the dating game by her more experienced friends
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The film team review a grisly western starring Kurt Russell as an ageing sheriff who heads out on a rescue mission after the town doctor’s wife is kidnapped by feral cannibals
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The film team review a biopic of Laurel Hester, a New Jersey police detective who fought to have her pension transferred to her domestic partner after she contracted terminal cancer
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While Amy Schumer’s ribald comedy ultimately turned conservative, this flawed yet forward-thinking alternative refuses to force family values on women
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Despite its adults-only rating, the film has been a smash – a sure sign that we can expect more sex, violence and swearing in the next crop of superhero movies
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A new investigation reveals how a string of ‘sale and leaseback’ deals with Hollywood saved the Royal Bank of Scotland over £1bn
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Ryan Reynolds’s sexually-fluid superhero is set to clean up at the global box office this weekend. It has done so by being the essence of a 21st-century movie: a product symbiotic with its fans and social media
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The director’s new film, about a nurse’s relationship with his terminally ill patients, was inspired by meeting his own dying grandmother’s carer. He explains how it led him – and star Tim Roth – into the strange world of end-of-life care
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The director filmed his cannibal horror The Green Inferno in the depths of the Amazonian rainforest. But is he exploiting the tribe who star in it?
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She was naked in Nymphomaniac and didn’t wash for The Survivalist. The model-turned-actress explains why she wants roles that go for grit
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The Breaking Bad star is getting political, playing a communist screenwriter in Trumbo, and Lyndon B Johnson in an upcoming HBO film. What does he think the McCarthy era can tell us about the rise of Trump and Cruz?
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Luca Guadagnino’s latest film sees the writer-director reunited with Tilda Swinton, this time playing a recuperating rocker. And while he has fond words for the Rolling Stones, who supply some of the tunes, he’s less forgiving about actors, scriptwriters and the Italian film industry
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Romcom lead, sitcom star, indie champion… Ryan Reynolds can turn his hand to almost any role. But can he make a foul-mouthed comic-book antihero lovable?
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The Oscar-nominated Juno star talks about child stardom, her Vice TV show and why she had to stop living a lie
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsEllen Page: five best momentsAs the Oscar nominee stars alongside Julianne Moore in equal-rights drama Freeheld, here’s a look back on a young career of mature performances
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The film quizThe film quizShip happens: match the marine vessel to the movie - quizAs Chris Pine and Casey Affleck face the seas in fact-based drama The Finest Hours, here’s a chance to check how well you know other movie boats
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DVDs and downloads
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentThe Weeknd: the latest victim of the dodgy popstar docAnother day, another unofficial documentary about a musician. When it comes to The Weeknd: His Life, His Story, you’d learn more in five minutes on YouTube
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsCrimson Peak; The Program; The Search; Bill; Hotel Transylvania 2; Lila & Eve – reviewThe blood flows in Crimson Peak and a Lance Armstrong biopic sticks in first gear
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The carpet has rolled on another ceremony, in which The Revenant took the top prizes and Carol was snubbed. But what were the evening’s real stories? Who does DiCaprio love? What has happened to Tom Cruise? And most importantly: who has nicked Julie Walters’s jewellery?
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After the ceremony was over, here’s what the stars got up to around the city
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Film-makers such as Oscar Micheaux thrived outside of Hollywood in the early 20th century and a new project shines spotlight on ingenuity of independent directors and producers
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Sturges’s screwball comedies play with big ideas and serious themes. So what makes them some of the funniest films ever made?
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If you’re expecting to see women tied to train tracks or actors running around making fast jerky movements when you watch a silent film, think again
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The horror director’s latest shocker is a faithful descendant of exploitation films that put gore on a grand scale. Who will survive – and what will be left of them?
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From indie flicks to big-budget affairs, the enigmatic star of the BBC’s War and Peace leaves admirers heralding his remarkable and intuitive performances
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