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The Hobbit to The Hunger Games The curse of the movie trilogy
You can’t move for trilogies this festive season but the best things shouldn’t come in threes -
A well-deserved appreciation of the women’s lib movement, but the approach often feels disjointed
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Green Lantern was a flop and the X-Men spin-off Deadpool looked dead in the water – that is until fans saw test footage of the actor as the wisecracking crimefighter, and decided that the red mask fits. By Ben Child
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Five of the best Bill Murray moments
Slouchy, grouchy, sexy? We look back at five of Bill Murray's best performances
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This drama of a woman who must persuade her co-workers to let her keep her job may be the Dardennes’ best, writes Xan Brooks
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Bill Murray reels out Bill Murray-isms in grumpy old man comedy St Vincent, while Jude Law hopes his Scottish accent doesn't sink him in submarine thriller Black Sea
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David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King with poise and charisma but the glow of prestige myth-making overwhelms the personal
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The tracking shot film-making magic - or stylistic self-indulgence?
Directors use tracking shots to create the sense of a seamless one-shot film. But is it just showing off? -
The Circle Why is gay cinema so fixated on the past?
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The Black Sea star on his career as the average guy in adverts, wrangling cattle on his ranch and shooting on a rusting submarine in the Medway
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Arnie goes back to the future – or is it the past? – in this convoluted-looking reboot of the James Cameron franchise
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The forgotten five 2014's least memorable blockbusters
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In Spectre gadgets six things we learned from the James Bond title announcement
Earlier today, Stuart Heritage liveblogged the name and cast announcement for the 24th James Bond movie. Here he provides a precis of the news, offers the film-makers some tips – and suggests a theme tune chorus -
The 10 best films of 2014 No 7 – Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal is great in Dan Gilroy’s spot-on satire of US media, writes Henry Barnes -
High on adventure and glamour, the films have always been a byword for product placement and brand promotion
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High on adventure and glamour, the films have always been a byword for product placement and brand promotion
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Actor says he has turned his life around since spending 45 days in prison aged 16 – raising money for charity and volunteering
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Sony aims for an Avengers-style franchise as Disney announces its revisionist take on the legendary outlaw
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Actor and co-director Rogen took home over $8m for the North Korea-baiting comedy, while co-star Franco received over $6m
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The Sherlock actor will play the role of neurosurgeon Steven Strange in the latest Marvel caper, as producers praise Cumberbatch’s ‘depth and sincerity’
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The 24th James Bond movie, starring Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci, is named after the evil organisation first seen in 1965
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Director Sam Mendes announces plans for a new James Bond film, entitled Spectre, the 24th film in the series
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Disney animation set to overtake Avatar as best-selling DVD of the last 10 years
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Sam Mendes, the director of the 24th James Bond film, has revealed the movie’s title and cast at a press conference in Pinewood Studios – to a generally positive reaction
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Info dump on 4chan from alleged Lucasfilm employee puts new film on a par with 1977’s Star Wars and claims JJ Abrams is locked in battle with Disney over key issues
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In memo to staff, the company told staff ‘large amount’ of confidential information, including movies and personnel files, was stolen
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Star says he regrets teaming up with Charlie’s Angels director for Terminator Salvation, on which Bale had his on-set meltdown
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A sequel to the Jake Gyllenhaal’s Groundhog Day-on-a-train thriller is production, but won’t feature either the first film’s star, nor its director, Duncan Jones
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Director says that the likes of The Silmarillion out of bounds for film-makers unless Tolkien estate has change of heart, as Hobbit star McKellen later predicts
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Stars, including Leto as the first actor to play the Joker since Heath Ledger’s death, will play supervillians in director David Ayer’s DC Comics film
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News: DJ Tatiana disguised herself as a man to get ahead in the dance music world, before reverting to female dress once she succeeded – and the rights to her story have now been bought by Warner Bros
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Richard Linklater’s coming of age drama chief victor at New York Critics Circle awards, while Birdman triumphs at Gotham awards and The Boxtrolls leads Annie nominations
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William Friedkin offers to host a screening of Jennifer Kent’s fairytale horror
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Ben Child: Author and physicist suggests his computer-generated voice would make him ideal foil for 007
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News: A group of US law enforcement agencies are looking into the hack that resulted in films including Fury, Annie and Mr Turner being illegally uploaded online
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Adam Sandler plays a porn-addicted husband in this spirited attempt to capture the essence of modern digital life, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Andrew Pulver: The final section of Peter Jackson’s monumental Tolkien trilogy rounds off the story of Bilbo Baggins with the monumental confrontation its title suggests
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Though epic and ambitious, Jolie’s second outing as a director fails to do justice to the rousing real-life story of Louis Zamperini
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Ben Whishaw proves the perfect voice for a CGI Paddington as endearing as the old 70s favourite
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Sudeikis, Batemen and Day are back and better than ever in this fast, outrageous and very funny sequel, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Ridley Scott’s 3D Moses biopic is very long, very camp and very grim. But one thing it isn’t is offensive – unless you mean the panpipes
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From the hi-tech iPad art to the paintings of shimmering swimming pools, this film portrait is an amiable celebration of David Hockney, but it never goes quite deep enough
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A study of the talent behind the kitsch 60s images of big-eyed waifs wants to be an oil painting but ends up more like a mass-produced print
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Dreamworks have p-p-p-picked up the penguins from the Madagascar movies for their own sugar-fuelled adventure, which comes with cheese puffs jokes for the kids, Cumberbatch, Malkovich and a Herzog gag for the grownups
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David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King with poise and charisma but the glow of prestige myth-making overwhelms the personal
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The best things in the Madagascar movies go it alone brilliantly in this supercharged adventure, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Wong Kar-wai’s strained story about Bruce Lee’s trainer lacks the emotional power of his best work, says Peter Bradshaw
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It’s good to see Bill Murray back in a starring role, but there are too many life lessons in store for his cantankerous Vietnam vet, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Leila Sansour’s documentary about her campaign to open up Jesus’s birthplace once again is definitely admirable, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Jim Broadbent’s Santa has been banged up in Brixton prison in this amiable but lop-sided British Miracle on 34th Street, writes Xan Brooks
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Good thing Fred Cavayé’s new-school French crime flick keeps the pace high, because there’s not much under the hood, writes Andrew Pulver
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Robin Campillo’s drama about a businessman and an eastern-European hustler is part love story, part neo-Dickensian immigrant thriller, writes Catherine Shoard
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Tessa Peake-Jones’s adventures in a commune based on the sexual behaviour of apes quickly turns into something sitcommy, writes Peter Bradshaw
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The pupils in this documentary about a Parisian classroom are a bit more studious than the ones in its fictional counterpart The Class, writes Andrew Pulver
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Comedian Guillaume Gallienne plays both himself as a boy and his mother in a coming-of-age tale riddled with gender cliches
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Look past the dreariness and this comedy about a lovelorn schmuck is not without interest, writes Catherine Shoard
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When a new pyramid is discovered, a team of archeologists venture in on the sly. What could go wrong? The script, for one, writes Chris Michael
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A promising-on-paper indie tale of lesbian love and twentysomething friendship is spoiled by flat writing, ready-made types and a stale message
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Despite a good performance from Justin Long, the film suffers from a lack momentum and uninteresting characters
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Peter Bradshaw recommends Leila Sansour's documentary, about her attempts to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in their desire for free access to the Holy City
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The stars of Kevin Macdonald's thriller, about a submarine crew fighting each other to the death for Nazi gold, give Catherine Shoard advice on love, sex and Ukip
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Jason Reitman on Men, Women and Children: 'The internet is where we become honest' – video interview
Jason Reitman and Ansel Elgort, the director and star of Men, Women and Children, a drama about how relationships play out online, talk to Henry Barnes
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The first teaser trailer of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally been unleashed, giving fans the first glimpse of what director JJ Abrams may have in store
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Our critics debate the week's new releases, including a visitor to London from deepest darkest Peru
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Peter Bradshaw recommends Dietrich Brüggemann's drama about a teenage girl who becomes convinced of her own sacrificial destiny
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Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis talk to Andrew Pulver about their comedy sequel
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Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks to review the week's big releases
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Watch a deleted scene from Michel Gondry's romcom about a young couple falling in love and using fantasy to deal with a life-threatening illness
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Jemaine Clements' vampire comedy – a mockumentary about blood-suckers sharing a flat in Wellington, New Zealand – is bizarre, brilliant and very funny, says Peter Bradshaw
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The director and star of a western about a frontiersman tasked with escorting three mentally ill women across the plains, talks to Catherine Shoard
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Get On Up star Chadwick Boseman explains how he got to the soul of singer James Brown
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Angelina Jolie and Jack O'Connell try some Australian slang during a press conference at the Sydney Opera House after the world premiere of Unbroken in Sydney Filmed entirely in Australia, Unbroken is the second film directed by Jolie.
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The film team review this week's cinema releases, which include Benedict Cumberbatch playing Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game and Tom Hardy following a pup into a dog's dinner in mob drama The Drop
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Peter Bradshaw explains why David Bowie Is, a documentary on the smash hit V&A exhibition on the rock musician's career, is worth your time this week
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The stars of a biopic about the Enigma codebreaker tell Andrew Pulver how his sexuality forced his isolation and why his genius deserves widespread recognition
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The film team rocket through the wormholes and plot holes of Interstellar and raise a glass to hard-hitting, heavy-drinking Leviathan
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Watch an exclusive clip from the acclaimed biopic of the Bletchley Park codebreaker
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Cynics, let it go How well do you know Frozen?
How much do you know (or, frankly, can guess) about the animated Disney film?
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Promo for Star Wars 7 already clocked up over 50m views, with multiple spoof and fan versions hitting internet
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Today our Culture sites – including Film, Music, Books, TV and radio, Stage, Art and design and Children’s books – have adopted our new design. Discuss the changes with us here
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This $60m advert that deconstructs Hollywood leaves you feeling exhilarated and utterly conflicted
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The 88-second teaser trailer for the new Star Wars movie was released last Friday, meaning Saturday and Sunday was a time for DIY posters. Stuart Heritage feels the force of Photoshop
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Benedict Cumberbatch Oscar-tipped biopic takes $120,500 average over four cinemas, bettered only by The Grand Budapest Hotel this year
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As the world reacts to The Force Awakens teaser trailer it’s worth taking a moment to remember the disdainful heroine who stood out in a man’s world
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British artist Luke Turner and Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkko tweet to say they intervened and stopped the incident during #IAMSORRY show
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Danish director said he is now sober and receiving treatment for dependency, but expresses concern over whether he will be able to make films in the future
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Peter Bradshaw: With this brief teaser footage, director JJ Abrams looks to sweep away memories of the awful Star Wars prequels – and just about manages it
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Join us as we pick five of Spacey’s top film roles, and let us know which you would add
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Arnie goes back to the future – or is it the past? – in this convoluted-looking reboot of the James Cameron franchise
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James Luxford: While Marvel continued to turn out films with darker themes and sharper writing, other superheroes and sci-fi villains have had trouble keeping up
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Earlier today, Stuart Heritage liveblogged the name and cast announcement for the 24th James Bond movie. Here he provides a precis of the news, offers the film-makers some tips – and suggests a theme tune chorus
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Jake Gyllenhaal is great in Dan Gilroy’s spot-on satire of US media, writes Henry Barnes
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Sony and MGM are have announced the name (Spectre) and cast (yep, Christoph Waltz) for the new James Bond movie. Stuart Heritage followed the excitement
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Andrew Pulver: Paweł Pawlikowski’s story about a young nun discovering the troubled past of her Jewish family is as remarkable for its subtlety as for its power
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Phil Hoad: Michael Bond’s marmalade-munching bear has good start to cinematic career in UK, but the future looks bleak for the Madagascar and Horrible Bosses franchises
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Charles Gant: Plucky ursine hero draws in a family audience to nudge Hunger Games: Mockingjay off the top spot
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Wes Anderson’s delightful trifle conceals a depth of feeling, which means it stands out among the director’s back catalogue and this year’s crop of movies
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We round up reaction to the release of the new Star Wars trailer - let us know what you think of it in the comments below
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David Shariatmadari: The late Mike Nichols’s fairytale of an ambitious woman in 80s Manhattan is undeniably fun, but it is also a more genuine portrait of ruthless business cut-and-thrust than Oliver Stone’s Wall Street
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The star of Boyhood and Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy reflects on his past work, life experience and blurring the lines between reality and fiction
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Annette Bening I like being a veteran, I have fewer illusions
The actor talks to Alex Clark about her three new films, raising teenagers with husband Warren Beatty, and her co-star Robin Williams -
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The gospel according to Bill Murray Impending apocalypse, seatbelt safety and his favourite saint
The venerated actor is back on screen in new film St Vincent. Meanwhile, an audience with the man brings with it the offer of a bath and a lesson about the greatest living American -
The Black Sea star on his career as the average guy in adverts, wrangling cattle on his ranch and shooting on a rusting submarine in the Medway
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He reviews dozens of movies but hasn’t seen any of them. Tommy Edison, the Blind Film Critic, talks to Luke Buckmaster about American Hustle, audio description and the joys of his first silent movie
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Nancy Schultz tells Elizabeth Day the extraordinary story of the brutal murder of her husband, now the subject of the film Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell
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The Peruvian bear on how he got through customs, why his new film is a PG and being more polite than Ted
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Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis talk to Andrew Pulver about their comedy sequel
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His films have already put music at their heart – and now the director, currently making a film about Iggy Pop, wants to make his own sounds with his band Sqürl
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The affairs and the scandals of a life among Hollywood royalty – and where Renée Zellweger and Jennifer Lawrence get it wrong. By Emma Brockes
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When he saw the Get On Up script, Chadwick Boseman wasn’t interested. The Godfather of Soul was too big an icon – and anyway, how do you dance the mashed potato?
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The director and star of a western about a frontiersman tasked with escorting three mentally ill women across the plains, talks to Catherine Shoard
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Get On Up star Chadwick Boseman explains how he got to the soul of singer James Brown
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The famously prickly actor-director talks about his feminist western The Homesman, ‘malevolent’ Putin and his Savile Row tailor
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The Turkish director talks to Peter Bradshaw about the battles with distributors and fights with his wife in the creating of his Palme d’Or winning film
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Stuart Heritage: Liam Neeson on his amateur boxing glories, acting into his 90s and leaving voicemail messages on his son’s phone
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Oscar contender Leviathan is a frank portrayal of corrupt Russia. In a rare interview, its director talks to Shaun Walker about his country’s ‘eternal curse’ and why voting there would be a ‘completely pointless step’
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The long read: He is one of the few directors who can walk into a Hollywood studio with an idea and come out with $200m. So, asks Tom Shone, will Nolan’s latest epic, Interstellar, reinforce his reputation as the auteur who thinks big?
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The stars of Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic, about a mission to find a new home away from ecologically-ravaged earth, talk to Catherine Shoard about climate change, human endeavour and getting tangled up in string theory
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Andrew Pulver: Paweł Pawlikowski’s story about a young nun discovering the troubled past of her Jewish family is as remarkable for its subtlety as for its power
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JC Chandor drama gathers critical momentum ahead of Oscars season, with wins for leads Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac
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Wes Anderson’s delightful trifle conceals a depth of feeling, which means it stands out among the director’s back catalogue and this year’s crop of movies
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Michael Keaton drama leads pack with six nominations at awards increasingly seen as sound indicator of Oscars success
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Stars from Benedict Cumberbatch to Jessica Chastain were out in force at a glitzy dinner kicking off the 2015 Academy awards
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Xan Brooks: Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in the latest film from Margin Call and All is Lost director JC Chandor – a rigorous crime drama which paints a knotty, nuanced portrait of the man who fuelled the 1980s
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Oscar contender Leviathan is a frank portrayal of corrupt Russia. In a rare interview, its director talks to Shaun Walker about his country’s ‘eternal curse’ and why voting there would be a ‘completely pointless step’
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Actor, Broadway star and seasoned awards show host to pick up DeGeneres’s baton at Academy awards, Variety reports
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New Academy Awards compere Neil Patrick Harris has straddled film, TV and stage for 20 years. Here’s the pick of his performances so far, including highlyacclaimed hosting turns at the Tonys
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Neil Patrick Harris is a seasoned MC, but his selection for next year’s Academy Awards is still surprising, given his affinity with the much-maligned 2013 compere - and the fact his movie career is going so well
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Xan Brooks: Paul Thomas Anderson gives the New York film festival a high with his woozy, inspired Thomas Pynchon adaptation, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a stoner sleuth
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Major surprise sees Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Cannes award winner nominated by Russian committee despite film’s attack on governing elite
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Andrew Pulver: French film about fashion designer faces strong competition from other foreign-language favourites, including the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night
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Lineup at Toronto film festival and Oscars release schedule show new appetite among audiences for films based on recent headlines
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Michel Hazanavicius has relocated Fred Zinnerman's 1948 Oscar-winner about a westerner who helps a lost child to the Chechen war. You can't fault the intention, you can't help but query the corny execution
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Controversial documentary about anti-communist massacres in Indonesia loses out to 20 Feet from Stardom at Academy Awards
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Italian study of Rome high society, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, takes Academy award
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Global box office report Mockingjay makes most in poorest countries, but Paddington doesn't mint it in Mexico
Phil Hoad: Michael Bond’s marmalade-munching bear has good start to cinematic career in UK, but the future looks bleak for the Madagascar and Horrible Bosses franchises -
A group of paras get stuck in a minefield in this historically accurate, mordant account of death and soldiering in Afghanistan in 2006, writes Alex von Tunzelmann
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Charles Gant: Plucky ursine hero draws in a family audience to nudge Hunger Games: Mockingjay off the top spot
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How much do you know (or, frankly, can guess) about the animated Disney film?
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Join Guardian reader George Washbourn as he counts down his top five tense family dining moments
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Green Lantern was a flop and the X-Men spin-off Deadpool looked dead in the water – that is until fans saw test footage of the actor as the wisecracking crimefighter, and decided that the red mask fits. By Ben Child
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You can’t move for trilogies this festive season but the best things shouldn’t come in threes
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It’s a tough call to make, but which of Murray’s film roles would you add to our chosen five?
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Obituary Chris Collins
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Erin Cressida Wilson drew on a young education in erotica for her first script, Secretary. Ahead of the release of Men, Women and Children, she looks back at those first glimpses from the back row
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