Studio face.
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They came from very different backgrounds, but both Olivia de Havilland and Kirk Douglas have both celebrated their 100th birthdays.
Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart depict something unusual for superhero films in Logan: ageing.
Marvel Entertainment and 20th Century Fox
As DC and Marvel battle for movie domination at the box office, older people are being left out.
After Louie
Cultural portrayals of HIV and AIDS tend to be stuck in the past.
(Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind) says to me…true love is still possible and you can put your faith in it.
Bruce Isaacs analyses the deceptively complex closing scene of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Jim Carey and Kate Winslet.
The Love Witch
This is a thought-provoking, odd, shocking and beautiful movie about feminism, fantasy and film history.
Pathe
This is not (quite) Downton-Abbey-in-India.
André Holland and Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight: it has seemed in recent years that queer films are just not Best Picture material.
A24, Plan B Entertainment
When Warren Beatty began his acting career in the 1950s, the idea of homosexual men at the centre of a cinematic story could not be countenanced. Moonlight still shows us lives generally absent from film screens.
The Lego Batman Movie.
Warner Bros.
The Lego Batman Movie is a worldwide box office smash – but have the filmmakers delved too much into the character’s more ‘toxic’ elements?
Phil McCarten/AMPAS
There were red faces all round after the wrong film was given the award for Best Picture. But stranger things have happened.
Lionsgate
It is difficult not to see the film as a vanity project for Wahlberg.
Aaron Pooled / AMPAS
The overwhelming politicism of this year’s awards have been overtaken by the Best Picture slip up.
Taraneh Alidousti and Shahab Hosseini in Iran’s The Salesman.
Memento Films Distribution
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
Director Asghar Farhadi wins the award for best screenplay at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Yves Herman/Reuters
Their critiques may be more gentle, their attacks more circumspect – but they are resonant nonetheless. And when filmmakers like Farhadi confront Trump, they’re on familiar turf: They’ve seen his type back home.
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Zoolander 2, anyone?
Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Moonlight: one of the most beautiful films in recent years.
A24, Plan B Entertainment/idmb
There are five very good films nominated for the Best Picture gong and one extraordinary one.
Dale Robinette / Lionsgate
Another article about the politics of La La Land? This time it’s personal.
Victoria Jones/PA Wire
Warhol has become one of the most well known artists in the world, but his work still has secrets to reveal.
Hidden Figures // Twentieth Century Fox
Until La La Land can star two actors of colour or two women in the leading roles, Hollywood will have a diversity problem.
BBC/Sid Gentle Films Ltd/Laurie Sparham
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
The Great Wall, an epic US-Chinese coproduction.
Universal Pictures
Ultimately the controversy over the casting of Matt Damon as a “white saviour” in The Great Wall is baseless, as the film falls flat in other ways.