movies
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Vittorio Storaro defends Bernardo Bertolucci over suggestions that filming of ‘butter scene’ constituted sexual violence against actress Maria Schneider
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JK Rowling’s enduring pre-Potter blockbuster casts a spell over Tom Hanks’ hero pilot and Disney’s Polynesian princess
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Blood drips from a crucifix, Nazis are on the rise and it looks like Optimus Prime is dead. But wait – DUGGA DUGGA DUGGA – Mark Wahlberg has a really cool big gun
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Why all the fuss over Schumer in the role of the iconic toy? It’s a winning situation for the actor, her fans, Sony Pictures and Mattel. The only losers are the misogynists
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After some underwhelming recent choices in Seth MacFarlane and Neal Patrick Harris, the Academy have gone for a cautious option with talk-show host Kimmel
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The waking nightmare of a plane going down is a Hollywood staple. But are films such as Clint Eastwood’s Sully a healthy way to confront our dread – or just an epic backdrop for heroics?
best films of 2016
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A countdown of the Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the US this year
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As our countdown continues, Peter Bradshaw pays tribute to Ira Sachs’s New York-set drama about the lost friendship – and the true cost of gentrification
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Pablo Larraín’s portrait of the first lady before and following John F Kennedy’s assassination doesn’t play to the standard tropes of Hollywood biopics. It’s a singular vision
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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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Culturally accurate and with a pleasing ‘know who you are’ message, this South Pacific adventure tale nevertheless settles into empowerment cliches
video & audio
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The black and white cut has been described by its director, George Miller, as ‘the best version of the movie’
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The first in Universal’s planned series of new monster movies, The Mummy stars Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe and is released on 9 June
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Just over two years since Marvel released Guardians of the Galaxy, the franchise heralds its return with its band of interstellar travellers
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Thomas Hyland’s powerful and evocative film tracks the story of mining town Queenstown, its people and their football team through shock, grief and change
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The star of new wartime thriller Allied joins director Robert Zemeckis to talk about the crucial ingredients of on-screen chemistry
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The critics’ favourite at this year’s Cannes film festival, Maren Ade’s three hour German comedy is about the fractious relationship between a businesswoman and her prank-loving father
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A passion project in the works since 1990, Silence is Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the 1966’s novel by Shūsaku Endō
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Tom Cruise is top gun in the new Universal monsters cinematic universe, but he has a beastly side, and Russell Crowe’s Jekyll is just as shadowy
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A journey into blindness, strange magic from Japan, and an Iranian spine-tingler are among the year’s must-sees
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Gross-out films used to feature raucous antics. But recent supposedly wild comedies have featured respectable professionals letting their hair down – before knuckling down to their careers. Where did it all go wrong?
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Studios trying to create franchises out of average originals, market tested laughs and a lack of originality made this year’s biggest comedies stilted and boring
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He’s a Bollywood hero and the world’s biggest movie star, and in his new film he plays a rumpled sage. He talks about his desire to make people happy, why he’s got no friends, and what he tells his children about religion
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Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger became a global hero when he landed an airliner on New York’s Hudson river in 2009. Now played by Tom Hanks in a film by Clint Eastwood, he talks about how the experience changed him
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After almost 40 years in cinema, the director remains the quintessential leftfield auteur. He discusses how his gentle new film Paterson offers a Zen alternative to blockbuster chaos
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The actor, who appears alongside Tom Hanks in Sully, admits he has fallen into traps during his career – and is determined to stop his Bleed for This co-star Miles Teller from doing the same
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One More Time With Feeling depicts the singer coming to terms with the death of his son. Made to protect Cave from having to do interviews, it was the director’s way of helping out, but ‘terrifying’ nonetheless
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Things exploded for her after Gone Girl. So where are all the meaty lead roles? As A United Kingdom is released, Rosamund Pike talks nails, nans and nappies
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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
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportMoana and Sully bobbing in the wake of Fantastic Beasts at UK box officeJK Rowling’s enduring pre-Potter blockbuster casts a spell over Tom Hanks’ hero pilot and Disney’s Polynesian princess
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentCaptive: Netflix's big-budget answer to CrimewatchThe streaming platform’s latest show relives dramatic hostage scenarios - but will it be able to salvage the tacky crime scene re-enactment genre?
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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 downloadsThe Shallows; Pete’s Dragon; Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie; Suicide Squad and more – reviewBlake Lively stars as a bloodied surfer in the best shark film since Jaws – and raise a glass (or several) to the Ab Fab film
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Week in geekWeek in geekLiving doll: why Amy Schumer's the best thing to happen to BarbieWhy all the fuss over Schumer in the role of the iconic toy? It’s a winning situation for the actor, her fans, Sony Pictures and Mattel. The only losers are the misogynists
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John PattersonJohn PattersonThe difficult delivery of Nate Parker's The Birth Of A NationThis account of 19th century slave rebel Nat Turner has been plagued by changing attitudes towards its creator - but does the film itself stand up to scrutiny?
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The actor, activist and friend of revolutionaries bid $150,000 at a charity event last week to remarry his old flame – proof that 80s revivalism has gone too far
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The 21st century has seen a revolution in how we consume cinema, from streaming a movie the day it’s released to forking out for a plush boutique experience. How did we get here – and how do we navigate the new landscape?
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Rogue One is poised to top the box office around the world. But it may not be in Disney’s long-term interests for the film to be too profitable or interesting
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Whether they tackle war, Soviet monotony or working-class suffering, the movies that countries take to their collective hearts tend to transcend age and class. We run through nine local treasures – and a few that fall just short
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Far from a mere ‘video nasty’, Abel Ferrara’s gory gem shatters our complacency and forces us to confront our moral choices
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Adrien Brody channels George Clooney in The Grand Budapest Hotel director’s festive new TV advert that’s sentimental but full of tasty treats
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Amid a deluge of documentaries and feature films on gun violence, directors discuss what it’s like to deal with the pain and pressure of the divisive topic
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