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He’s equally at home in The Legend Of Tarzan as he is a twisted cop in War On Everyone. So why is the sweary Swede having an existential crisis?
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With the premiere of HBO’s much-hyped take on the Michael Crichton classic, what about the original, its sequel and the little-seen small screen spinoff?
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Speaking to 60 Minutes, the director of Birth of a Nation says he sees things through ‘a different lens’ than he did when he was 19 years old
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Craig Atkinson’s documentary about police militarization in America asks an important question: how did we get here?
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DC Comics has confirmed the Amazonian princess is bisexual, so why not celebrate the superhero’s queer identity on the big screen?
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The Selma director unravels the ‘American quilt of injustice, oppression and systemic racism’ that is mass incarceration in her new documentary, 13th
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Denzel Washington’s classic western hero is commandingly cool and supported by a rakish Chris Pratt, but there’s a great deal of waiting around for something to happen in Antoine Fuqua’s strenuously-topical western
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David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o deliver nuanced performances in a movie which threatens to back itself into a corner but has enough zest and intelligence to carry through
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Even Kate Winslet carrying her sewing machine like a gunfighter’s pistol can’t redeem this unbearable patchwork of comedy and tragedy
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Louis Theroux enters the secretive world of Scientology in his new documentary, My Scientology Movie
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Emily Blunt talks about her the forthcoming film adaptation of The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins’ bestseller
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The Oscar-winning actor was jogging through Central Park, New York, when he bumped into Elisabeth and Ryan who were having their wedding photos taken
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Greta Gerwig, Annette Bening and Elle Fanning star in the new movie from the director of Beginners, which premieres next week at the New York film festival
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The director talks on how the ‘texture, weather, seasons and age’ of the UK struck him as sympathetic after the sun and colour of a childhood in California
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Adam Low’s new documentary, Alan Bennett’s Diaries, follows the writer round the UK and to New York over the course of a year
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The actor talks about his two new movies: Swiss Army Man, in which he plays a flatulent corpse, and Imperium, about a gang of white supremacists
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Is it any wonder Rogue One lacks The Force Awakens hype when Abrams recently confirmed franchise isn’t the same without Skywalker and Solo clans?
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In gunning for gold, many countries have opted to elect bold auteurs like Paul Verhoeven and Pedro Almodóvar as their mascots. Will the tactic pay off?
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A new California law allows actors to remove their age from the Internet Movie Database to stop discrimination. Will it be enough to stop ludicrous roles such as these?
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Lewis was the master of bargain-basement splatter without whom we would not have the likes of Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino
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The Deepwater Horizon star’s career has spanned pop fame as Marky Mark, dozens of blockbusters, reality TV and even a walk around the greens with the Republican terror. No wonder he still relies on his entourage to stay normal
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Radcliffe is always being asked about Harry Potter. So, instead, we talked about breaking wind, white supremacists and annoying John Kasich …
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The screenwriter on a great festival, shock horror Train to Busan, hacking TV drama Mr Robot and immersive theatre to die for
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She steals the show in the new Bridget Jones film and took a protest to its premiere. The actor-writer-rabblerouser explains why it’s time to shake the industry up
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The actor says her part in the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice allowed her to have the career she wanted – one that isn’t as important as her family life. Is her new film a step back towards the limelight?
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He’s slain dragons and played psychopaths. Sometimes the dark roles even spill over into real life. So why is Luke Evans singing show tunes and talking about starting a family?
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Drugs, gay marriage, gentrification – the writer-director turns big issues into intimate, uncomfortable dramas. He talks about growing up the son of a social scientist and life as a Hollywood outsider
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UK box office reportUK box office reportBridget Jones's Baby still the daddy in UK as Finding Dory hits motherlodeThird big-screen outing for Helen Fielding’s much-loved comic creation holds on to the top spot thanks to rapturous word of mouth, with Disney’s animation continued to get tills ringing
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentCrisis in Six Scenes: Woody Allen's TV show is proof he's finally lost the plotAllen’s first TV series in half a century feels clumsy, shuffly and full of lame one-liners. Not even Miley Cyrus as a rebel runaway can save it
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Sunset Boulevard: what Billy Wilder's satire really tells us about HollywoodThe scathing black comedy offers up bitterness and grotesquery but also a revealing, and complicated, look at the end of the silent era
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsLove & Friendship; The Nice Guys; Fire at Sea; The White Helmets and more – reviewWhit Stillman’s literate sensibility renders him ideal for an Austen adaptation, while Shane Black mocks masculine archetypes
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Week in geekWeek in geekMoana: progressive paean to Polynesia – or another of Disney's cultural blunders?The forthcoming animation has caused anger with its ‘obese’ vision of folkloric hero Māui. But an early peek suggests a departure from the missteps of the past
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John PattersonJohn PattersonMy Scientology Movie: Louis Theroux's exposé is the most damning yetThe documentarian found a typically offbeat way to infiltrate the church’s secretive world but the result is just as powerful and evocative as Going Clear
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Babak Anvari’s debut Under the Shadow evokes his fear-ridden childhood in Iran – and is being hailed as a horror classic. Here he talks about his mother’s inspirational courage – and the nightmares that still haunt him
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A new documentary on the 2007 Meredith Kercher murder traces how the tragic event morphed into salacious media entertainment – and talks to Knox about being reduced to a ‘sex-obsessed’ cartoon character
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Surprise! The Sixth Sense director’s shock-twist kidnap thriller premiered in a secret screening at Austin’s Fantastic Fest – a masterful blend of Hitchcock, horror and therapy session
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Deepwater Horizon and Sully show that American film-makers like to depict heroes as gritty individuals fighting against the establishment. In the UK however, collectivism still leads to triumph
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Who has time to sit through five 10-second trailers? Especially when they’re complex stories of food murder, hair loss, wires and hall-walking
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As Hollywood continues its courtship of China, it can learn all about cultural differences and censorship from the Hong Kong film-makers who went there first
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