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Jodie Foster, Ben Wheatley and Pedro Almodóvar are all expected to debut films, while ‘retired’ Ken Loach may present welfare drama I, Daniel Blake
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant is the latest genre effort to fail at the box office, and trend could leave such films with female protagonists in cinema purgatory
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The veteran actor’s run of flawed gentlemen continues with his roles in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and High-Rise. He explains his trouble with democracy – and why his statue of buddha is so important
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The tiny, plastic version of Gotham’s Dark Knight enjoys battling to save the city, hoarding his old capes and munching microwaved lobster thermidor in the first trailer for his standalone brick-based adventure
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Since launching at last year’s Berlin film festival, the audacious one-take heist movie, Victoria, has everyone talking. How did its makers pull off something that a movie legend could not?
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Listen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastListen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastWonder Woman wins and Disney takes on discrimination – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s news and reviews
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Predators and prey learn to get along in this animated tale of species coexistence – until a stray comment from the bunny-cop heroine turns the whole place into a hate-filled Trump rally
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A cheap-looking sequel to Olympus Has Fallen has the capital city targeted by terrorists allowing the US president time to chill with his favourite security guard
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Terrence Malick’s study of Christian Bale’s torment is, despite moments of visual flairm, all smouldering dalliances, ruin-porn landscapes and self-pitying shallowness
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The stars of Zack Snyder’s superhero grudge match, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, talk to Andrew Pulver
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s news and reviews
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Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones in the third instalment of the film franchise
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s news and reviews
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Tuesday’s news and reviews
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Actor Sir Ian McKellen talks to Owen Jones about his gay rights activism and his friendship with Sir Patrick Stewart
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Monday’s news and reviews
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The dapper superspy is one of Hollywood’s best-known brands, so why not remold the Star Wars and Marvel template to give us multiple visions of 007?
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Captain America: Civil War is set to be the latest in a long line of superhero movies that have been huge commercial hits but creative disappointments
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With its smart take on race and difference, Disney’s new animation is a perfect antidote to Donald Trump’s divide-and-rule rhetoric
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British cinema has a proud tradition of telling working-class stories properly. But Baron Cohen’s Grimsby echoes the spirit of our times – embodied by Donald Trump – by beating on the little guy
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Porter, whose documentary about the Trap laws sweeping US states showed at SXSW this week, discusses its impact and why it’s not an advocacy film
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She played a child in Atonement, a rebel in St Trinian’s – and has now finally come of age in Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl. She talks about famous friends, on-screen nudity and being a ‘quirky weirdo’
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The star and director of Miles Ahead spoke about the thought process behind the experimental biopic, with Miles Davis’s family members explaining why the film is something the jazz great would be proud of
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The Lord of the Rings star discusses his crime thriller The Trust, his obsession with horror and why his co-star is ‘otherworldly’
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From small parts in 12 Years a Slave and Misfits to a starring role in AMC’s upcoming TV series Preacher and hotly tipped new films Iona and Loving, the actor talks industry diversity and complex characters
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From Pinochet’s bloody legacy to the Catholic church’s safe house for clerics accused of abuse, Pablo Larraín has spent his career probing Chile’s conscience. But he’s also making a film about Jackie Kennedy – and a remake of Scarface
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In Charlie Kaufman’s acclaimed new puppet animation, David Thewlis plays a depressed motivational guru who suffers a breakdown. He talks about love, death and the importance of being honest
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Five best momentsFive best momentsTom Hiddleston: five best momentsWith a burgeoning career that straddles the multiplex and the arthouse, the 35-year-old star of this week’s surreal satire High-Rise is on the ascent
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The film quizThe film quiz'He reminds me of a drunk uncle' – match the quote about Donald Trump to the actorHollywood stars have been sharing their thoughts on the controversial candidate at any given opportunity but can you guess who said what?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportKung Fu Panda 3 scraps with 10 Cloverfield Lane to stay top at UK box officeFamily animation still UK No 1, despite competition from ‘spiritual successor’ to Cloverfield and new film on the block, High-Rise
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentMy Beautiful Broken Brain: a painfully literal addition to the inspirational recovery canonThis new Netflix doc uses gaudy special effects to convey the impact of Lotje Sodderland’s stroke, but her story would have been engaging enough on its own
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Symphonies of steel and stone: silent cinema and the cityCapturing early 20th century New York – and all the glamour, danger and alienation it contained – Paul Strand set the foundations for a skyscraping subgenre: the city symphony
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsCarol; Steve Jobs; Black Mass; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 and more – reviewCate Blanchett and Rooney Mara burn with desire, while Michael Fassbender and Johnny Depp make a pair of cold fish
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Three competing biopics about the infamous 1973 ‘Battle of the Sexes’ match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs are in production, as the struggle for equality on the court continues
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The Hollywood superstar has made it his business to alert people to their missing stuff – making the owners famous in the process
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He completely recut Midnight Cowboy, won an Oscar for The Killing Fields and worked on James Bond. William Boyd remembers the film editor they called Dr Clark, because he could make sick movies well again
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From the worst soprano in history to a ski-jumper so terrible they had to change the rules – the cinema gods love a trier. Will films about Eddie the Eagle and operatic catastrophe Florence Foster Jenkins finally give their subjects a triumph?
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From an outrageously violent action flick that could revolutionize film to Austin’s hard-partying scene, SXSW was extra frisky this year – here are the big takeaways
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Hollywood studios, including Fox and Warner Brothers, are hoping to crack the quota system by remaking big US hits with a Chinese cast. Here’s a few of the big-hitters that are getting the remake treatment, and the films that have already been given a twist
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Gods Of Egypt’s poor performance may well have killed off the swords-and-sandal movie. But it’s far from the only Hollywood staple in mortal danger
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