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Barry Jenkins’s coming of age drama and Andrea Arnold’s first film set in the US lead the way at the flagship award ceremony for independent cinema
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Star of second world war thriller calls for artists to defend free speech, while her director Robert Zemeckis says the Trump years will be boon for TV and film industry
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Oscar-winner to move ahead with film about controversial politician and businessman, who was vice-president to George W Bush
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This long-awaited film adaptation of the August Wilson play remains stagy, but as a showcase for two towering performances it could hardly be improved
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Matthew McConaughey, Zach Galifianakis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt also feature in the year’s least profitable films, including Snowden, Max Steel and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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This extraordinary documentary charts the antics of the first western band allowed into the country – to perform thunderous versions of songs from The Sound of Music
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Robert Zemeckis lacks his usual fizz in this tourist visit to a heritage-wartime past, in which Pitt and Cotillard look and act like strangers
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The rock star and provocateur is imperturbably articulate and droll in this entertaining documentary made of archive footage and interview clips
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Sergei Loznitsa sets up his cameras at the sites of the Nazi death camps, to watch the behaviour of the visitors and ask how best to remember history
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‘It’s easy to forget now just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most public of stages 20 years ago’
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Netflix delves into the US president’s time as a student at Columbia University in 1981
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The iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she sang “happy birthday Mr President” to John F Kennedy has sold for a world-record price at auction, fetching US$4.8m (£3.87m) in LA on Thursday
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Based on the bestselling books, A Series of Unfortunate Events follows the Baudelaire orphans as they try to escape the clutches of their creepy guardian Count Olaf. The Burtonesque series starts on 13 January 2017
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Leonardo DiCaprio visits Home restaurant in Edinburgh on Thursday. Its profits go to help homeless people
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This forthcoming disaster movie is set in the 1970s and follows a team of explorers who set out to assess an uncharted island in the Pacific – which happens to be the home of a massive angry gorilla
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Fantastic Beasts cast: 'A bunch of squirrels together ... that's pretty fantastic' – video interview
The stars and director of Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them discuss the film’s relevance post-Trump
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The world is full of long, boring films, so why not follow the US president-elect’s movie-watching style and cut to the chase by skipping over the talky bits?
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Meryl Streep called Disney’s vision of passive princesses and envious stepmothers ‘gender bigotry’. Here we give five classic fairytales a reboot
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The first of JK Rowling’s new wizarding film series is packed with staggering surprises – take this chance to share what you thought of it here
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As the streaming platform struggles across the Channel, a new Cannes haul could provide an opportunity to seduce a very sceptical audience
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After three decades, the Back to the Future star is still happy to be known as zany scientist Doc Emmett Brown. He talks about the prescience of Biff Tannen’s politics and why he’s the only person alive to prefer the third film in the trilogy
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At 88, Morricone is a towering presence in film history. As he celebrates 60 years in music, the Italian composer talks shoots, scores and the masterpieces we missed
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After a breakout role as Don Draper’s secretary Dawn in Mad Men and the Sundance hit Dear White People, Parris is fronting Lee’s brash, controversial film on sexual politics in Chicago
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It might be near-impossible to steal a movie from Nicolas Cage but Dafoe pulls it off in Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog
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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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UK box office reportUK box office reportFantastic Beasts sprinkles magic dust over the UK box officeThe latest offering from JK Rowling’s wizarding empire trounces big-screen superheroes to deliver the biggest opening of the year so far
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentFrench resistance: can Netflix win over its harshest critics?As the streaming platform struggles across the Channel, a new Cannes haul could provide an opportunity to seduce a very sceptical audience
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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 downloadsDivines; Ghostbusters; The BFG; Star Trek: Beyond and more – reviewHouda Benyamina adds a thrilling feminist twist to the ghetto life genre with the direct-to-Netflix Divines
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Week in geekWeek in geekDoes Catwoman deserve a ninth life on the big screen?Sienna Miller wants to play the feline superhero in Ben Affleck’s The Batman. But should she risk getting her claws into a character that almost killed Halle Berry’s career?
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John PattersonJohn PattersonAllied: history repeats itself in Brad Pitt’s second world war thrillerThe actual events of the war may be receding into the vagueness of folk memory, but we still can’t get enough of them on screen
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The dismal box office for Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is the latest in a string of post-9/11 war flops – what can we learn about the lone exception?
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Cruel and charismatic, Anne Hamilton-Byrne was the Australian leader of a doomsday cult who thought she was the Messiah. Abigail Haworth on the woman behind The Family
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Jim Jarmusch’s new film may have benefited from a little less contentment. But portraying writers in film presents a unique set of challenges
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From actors downing 30 pints of beer a day to the quandary of filming a kangaroo shooting scene while vegan, veteran director Ted Kotcheff goes back behind the scenes of the Australian thriller
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The odd combination of Looney Tunes, basketball, aliens and Michael Jordan remains a cult favorite with fans still calling for a sequel
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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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