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Not all children’s books are heartwarming and inspirational. Here are five that ought never to get near a film camera
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Denis Villeneuve’s smart sci-fi epic starring Amy Adams soars, as Ewan McGregor’s Philip Roth adaptation stumbles
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Tom Ford’s vicious thriller, box office hit The Girl on the Train and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle align with 2016’s rise of misogyny and sexual aggression
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Media website’s first feature film will recount the real-life story of an editor who became a social media star in China after his mobile phone was stolen
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As one of the largest sales of Monroe memorabilia - including that dress – takes place in Los Angeles, a rival auction house is offering the star’s bronze crypt label
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Mamoru Oshii’s seminal anime looked ahead to a future where man and machine are one. Rupert Sanders’ remake, starring Scarlett Johansson, appears to be looking backwards – to RoboCop, The Matrix and Bourne
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Denis Villeneuve’s thrilling sci-fi epic, in which a linguistics expert is called on to speak for the human race, is daring, clever and touched with skin-crawling strangeness
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A rare misstep for the Oscar-winning director is an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s acclaimed novel flattened by ill-fitting experimentation with new technology
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Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance as a woman turning the tables on her attacker in the controversial director’s electrifying and provocative comeback
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Following the release in September of five 10-second teasers, here’s the first look proper at the sci-fi blockbuster starring Scarlett Johnsson as a half-human, half-cyborg
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‘I always worry, am I still the fastest man in the world? Am I still the great Usain Bolt?’ A new feature-length documentary follows the sprinter in the lead up to winning his historic triple treble in Rio. In this exclusive clip, he reveals how nerves still get to him after all this time
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In Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton’s surreal and intense short film, Red, Cate Blanchett embodies a female redback spider, which eats its mate after sex
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Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner talk about Arrival, an epic study of first contact with extra-terrestrials, directed by Sicario’s Denis Villeneuve
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Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nick Boshier reimagine the proposal for Australia’s first male-only gym and co-working space
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Anthony Baxter follows up his 2011 documentary You’ve Been Trumped with the sequel You’ve Been Trumped Too, about the presidential candidate’s battle with Aberdeenshire residents over a golf course
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Lindsay Lohan appears to debut a new accent at the opening of her new nightclub in Athens, last month
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The HyperNormalisation director believes that the traditional documentary has failed to explain truths about the real world. Instead, we should look to fiction for answers
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Director George Miller has recut the post-apocalyptic epic without colour. It provides an illuminating counterpoint to the original
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Escape the sofa and head out to the big screen for new Star Wars episodes, live screenings of classic ballets and Jennifers Lawrence and Aniston in Christmas blockbusters
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An American 007? Jack Nicholson as Michael Corleone? With Eddie Redmayne admitting he narrrowly missed out on a role in last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we look back on other Sliding Doors moments from Hollywood history
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The director of the cult favorite Donnie Darko was once hailed as the next David Lynch. Now, as fans rediscover his 2007 flop Southland Tales, he explains why patience is still a virtue and Trump’s victory was a ‘grotesque inevitability’
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Body-swap drama Your Name has became Japan’s first post-Studio Ghibli smash, its themes resonating with a nation still affected by the 2011 earthquake. ‘I want to make people happy,’ says its creator
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He suffers for his art, whether it’s curling his spine into Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair or acting opposite imaginary animals in Fantastic Beasts. But in life, finds Tim Lewis, he’s the easiest, wittiest company
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The Oscar-nominated actor talks about industry sexism, why she cried on set and the pitfalls of a Hollywood marriage
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The Kite Runner actor is also an activist involved in documenting Egypt’s uprising and subsequent collapse. So why has the Cairo premiere of his new film been called off?
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He starred in Legend of Tarzan, and was nominated for two supporting-actor Oscars – he’s ready for his own blockbuster now
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Playing the mother in Ethel & Ernest, the film version of Raymond Briggs’s graphic novel about his parents, brought back tough childhood memories for the star
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UK box office reportUK box office reportArrival lands in top spot at UK box office, but no space for American PastoralDenis Villeneuve’s smart sci-fi epic starring Amy Adams soars, as Ewan McGregor’s Philip Roth adaptation stumbles
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentIs Mad Max: Fury Road even better in black and white?Director George Miller has recut the post-apocalyptic epic without colour. It provides an illuminating counterpoint to the original
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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 downloadsIndependence Day: Resurgence; Looking: The Complete Series and the Movie; Chevalier; The Wait and more – reviewRoland Emmerich’s second stab at an alien invasion has even more action than the original, while Juliette Binoche proves she’s cinema’s greatest mourner
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Week in geekWeek in geekWorse than a whitewash: has Ghost in the Shell been Hollywoodised?Mamoru Oshii’s seminal anime looked ahead to a future where man and machine are one. Rupert Sanders’ remake, starring Scarlett Johansson, appears to be looking backwards – to RoboCop, The Matrix and Bourne
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John PattersonJohn PattersonDog Eat Dog: is Paul Schrader the world's best bad director?The Nic Cage-starring thriller is a complete mess, but has moments of audacious brilliance. It shows that, at 70, Schrader is still taking creative risks
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From psychodrama to sushi, specialists in the non-fiction form reveal the films that shocked and enthralled them
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Documentary films have are more diverse, experimental and popular than ever before. Here we consider why, and survey the genre’s game-changers
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Its systematic buying spree to acquire franchises and talent has now put the company in sight of a global box-office record
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Pier Paolo Pasolini depicted Italian urban life in all its beauty and brutality. Does a new English language version of The Street Kids, by Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed translator, do his work justice?
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As Poitier’s 1967 film In the Heat of the Night is re-released in UK cinemas, it’s time to celebrate an actor whose dignity and restraint brought people together at a time of deep racial divisions
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The subjects of a new Netflix documentary, Asperger’s Are Us talk about guilt bookings, why they hate The Big Bang Theory and the source of their comedy
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The renowned cinematographer who was a key figure in the French New Wave, has died. We look back at his most celebrated collaborations with Truffaut, Godard, and more
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