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As Hollywood producers sue Amber Heard for refusing to perform naked, we examine the latest manoeuvres in the long battle between prurience, commerce and art
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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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Tom Hanks said Eastwood was ‘intimidating as hell’ on the set of Sully and treated his actors ‘like horses’. He clearly hasn’t worked with these directorial terrors
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Director will be joined by 400 priests for screening of film based on story of 17th-century Jesuit missionaries in Japan
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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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In a year overflowing with exceptional performances, many are bound to fall by the wayside this awards season. Here are some worthy of a closer inspection
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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
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The legend’s odd and energetic film is a mix of fun, sadness and fatigue, and while not everything falls into place, it has its share of entertainment
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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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Women at the Dakhla refugee camp explain how they are using film activism to empower their community
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David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, the stars of Amma Asante’s new film, A United Kingdom, discuss the project’s origins
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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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From Albert Brooks movies to films with actors who might have large heads, there’s something for all family members trying to avoid political arguments
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Prescient and powerful, the film foreshadowed the likes of Bill O’Reilly with its ‘mad as hell’ protagonists and the climate of American anger that birthed Trump
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Spoiler alert Those you think are dead are not dead, Johnny Depp is charmingly evil, we’ll always have Paris, and it will all end with a duel … we think
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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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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
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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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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 entertainmentProject X: Laura Poitras homes in on the dark side of the internetThe director’s new short film descends on a brutalist New York building to sum up the unsettlingly intangible nature of the web
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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 downloadsFinding Dory; Jason Bourne; My Scientology Movie and more – reviewPixar’s Dory is the catch of the day, while Isabelle Huppert is on a roll with Valley of Love
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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 PattersonNetwork at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn'Prescient and powerful, the film foreshadowed the likes of Bill O’Reilly with its ‘mad as hell’ protagonists and the climate of American anger that birthed Trump
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Hollywood’s got it down to a science. Audience demographics, judgment and projected fantasies can all help create that all-important spark. Just look at Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, says sex therapist and former actor Pamela Stephenson Connolly
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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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Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s post-apocalyptic meditation, showing at Amsterdam’s documentary film festival, is as gripping as any sci-fi thriller
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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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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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Norman Jewison: ‘A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo’
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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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