movies
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Chloë Grace Moretz 'appalled and angry' over body-shaming posterThe billboard for the actor’s new animated film Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs has attracted criticism for its beauty standards message
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Can Wonder Woman save Hollywood from its problem with female superheroes?Gal Gadot’s solo outing has received a warm welcome from critics, a far cry from the industry’s previous failed attempts to introduce equality to the genre
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'We considered ourselves dead': the explosive tale of Mad Max's rocket carFew stories encapsulate the ethos of George Miller’s films like a don’t-try-this-at-home moment in an extract from Luke Buckmaster’s new book, Miller & Max
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The Hippopotamus review – eccentric adaptation of Stephen Fry's novelRoger Allam elevates a wonky country house mystery with a wholeheartedly verbose performance
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Breaking the Bond: six roles to distance Daniel Craig from 007Appearing as a bleach-blond criminal in Steven Soderbergh’s new film, the actor seems desperate to ditch the tuxedo. We survey his career options
Cannes 2017
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When a film producer sitting next to me in the cinema mistook my hand for his wife’s I didn’t know how to reactA stranger grabbed my hand in the dark. What would you have done?
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Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK's low-budget film-makersSmall productions struggle to hit the big screen due to fashion for mega-budget TV dramas and risk-averse US studios focusing on superhero blockbusters
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Jessica Chastain: the portrayal of women in films is disturbingThe actor and jury member hit out at the lack of female voices at the film festival during the closing press conference
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'It’s disturbing’: Jessica Chastain on the portrayal of women in films – videoActor and Cannes jury member Jessica Chastain says the way female characters were depicted in films she saw at the festival was ‘disturbing’
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Guy Ritchie's cheerful den of medieval dodginessThe Sherlock Holmes director has conjured up an entertaining rollercoaster that crashes through Arthurian legend, with only the occasional stall
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Cheap and cheerless sci-fi comedySimon Pegg plays a teacher endowed with godlike powers and Robin Williams, in his final film role, supplies the voice of a dog. But it’s far from funny
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13 Cate Blanchetts in search of a meaningThe words of Futurists, Dadaists and Communists are stolen from the page and given new life by Blanchett playing a teacher, homeless man, mourner and mother in the Berlin-based artist’s latest multi-screen installation
video & audio
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Tom Cruise: filming for Top Gun sequel will begin 'probably in the next year' – videoOn Australian morning show Sunrise, Tom Cruise confirmed a sequel to classic 1986 action movie Top Gun is in the works
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How Conor McGregor was the role model for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – videoGuy Ritchie’s new take on the Arthurian legend stars Charlie Hunnam as the mythical British monarch
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Jimmy Fallon makes mashup of speeches by Trump and Legally Blonde star – videoOn Wednesday night’s The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon creates a mashup of Donald Trump’s speech on Saturday at the Liberty University and a speech by Elle Woods (played by Reese Witherspoon), from the film Legally Blonde. The speeches by Trump and Woods, in the 2001 film, appear to use very similar linesWatch the full segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’s YouTube
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Becoming Bond trailer: how George Lazenby landed the role of 007 – videoThe stranger-than-fiction true story of how George Lazenby, an Australian car mechanic, landed the role of James Bond
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Labour party election broadcast produced by Ken Loach – videoThe Labour party releases its latest election broadcast, featuring a profile of Jeremy Corbyn
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Jessica Chastain: 'We need more female film critics. 90% are male' - videoJessica Chastain discusses her new gun-control drama Miss Sloane and the gender imbalance in film direction and criticism
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Tsunambee, Clowntergeist and Haunted Airplane: bad Cannes films postersProbably not coming to a cinema near you: rabbits with chainsaws, plus-size cops and the remains of Nicolas Cage’s career
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What we learned from Vanity Fair's Star Wars: The Last Jedi issueThe magazine’s latest issue offers an in-depth look at the highly anticipated sequel. From Leia’s role to the remote planet of Ahch-To, here’s what it revealed
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Meme team: after Rihanna-Lupita, what if other viral moments became movies?A joke about a picture of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o is set to become a movie – so maybe there’s more money to be made from scouring the web for viral pitches
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How to stage a Hollywood comebackAvoiding tabloid headlines, choosing the right director and knowing your eccentricities are just a few of the secrets to Nicole Kidman’s reinvention
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Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover'He tackles big issues but can’t resist adding jokes, once turning Hamlet into a story about rubber ducks. As The Other Side of Hope hits cinemas, the Finnish director talks about lazy actors, parking tickets – and his Holby City addiction
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Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: ‘People really thought that only men loved action movies’As the first female director of a Marvel or DC film, Jenkins has gently reinterpreted the superhero genre, bringing love and compassion to the world of fights and fantasy
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I Am Not a Witch director Rungano Nyoni: ‘The chief Whatsapped his people to find our star’The Welsh-Zambian director’s debut feature is premiering at Cannes: an everyday story of choosing between life in a travelling witch camp or being transformed into a goat
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Juno Temple: ‘Blackpool is like Reno, not flashy like Vegas, there’s a sense of Arcadian gambling’The actor stars alongside Timothy Spall in Away, a new drama set in the seaside town. Did the Lancashire resort’s ‘magic’ help her get over HBO cancelling Vinyl?
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Why I bluffed my way into North Korea: Claude Lanzmann on his Pyongyang loverHe said he was making a film about taekwondo. But the great French director was actually on the trail of an old flame he had a secret romance with in the 1950s
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Kristen Stewart on her directing debut: 'The best female film-makers are compulsive freaks'The Twilight actor is at Cannes to show Come Swim, her film about heartbreak starring a man who can’t quench his thirst
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportPirates of the Caribbean sails past Guy Ritchie's King Arthur at UK box officeThe latest instalment of the Johnny Depp franchise fights off sunny skies – and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – with £5.24m, while Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes a road trip to second
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainment555: would you pay good money for a hipster sketch series?Vimeo are the next streaming site to do original programming, but their surreal show about a bunch of Hollywood misfits could be worth coughing up for
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Mark Kermode's film of the weekMark Kermode's film of the weekThe Red Turtle review – rapturous minimalism from Studio GhibliThis wordless animated fable follows the fortunes of a shipwrecked man on an island – and it’s a masterpiece
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsToni Erdmann; The Salesman; Jackie; Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? and moreMaren Ade’s parent-child comedy is a triumph, while Asghar Farhadi’s domestic suspense film doesn’t match his best
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Week in geekWeek in geekIs it time for Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow to walk the plank?Now we’ve reached the fifth outing of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, it seems even the scriptwriting team have stopped caring
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John PattersonJohn PattersonScarface-off: why another reboot would be a shot in the darkHollywood has already had two cracks at the gangster tale – here’s hoping they look to the 30s original, not De Palma, for inspiration
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Beyond Bollywood: where India's biggest movie hits really come fromThe global success of fantasy epic Baahubali 2: The Conclusion underscores the power of the country’s billion-dollar ‘regional’ film industry
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No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summerRobots, pirates and talking cars might be dominating the multiplex, but the next few months will also bring a rich and varied mixture of smaller films
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Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life'At the height of his fame, Cary Grant turned to LSD therapy for help. He later claimed the drug saved him, but did it also spell the end of his career?
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Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never dieWith their bad robots, evil capitalists, terrifying xenomorphs and exploding humans, the Alien films turned cinema into a primal freakout zone. As the latest lands, here’s what made them so irresistible
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