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Nintendo doesn’t have the best track record of turning their games into successful screen iterations.
Yul Brynner in Westworld.
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Michael Crichton’s cautionary tale showed that high-concept feature films could act as a vehicle for social commentary.
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon.
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Here are the truths behind some of the major scenes from Ridley Scott’s new Napoleon biopic.
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The tale lamenting the loss of a mythical British upper class is as sharp now as ever.
Taylor Swift performs in Los Angeles during The Eras Tour.
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The concert film is enjoying a comeback in the age of event cinema.
Mia McKenna-Bruce as Tara in How to Have Sex.
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The powerful rites of passage drama follows the tale of three 16-year-old girls on a post-GCSE bender in a party resort in Crete.
On the set of Lupin in Paris.
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The streaming platform has invested heavily in TV and films from Brazil, South Korea and France.
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939).
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As Hollywood continues to reckon with its past, Vivien Leigh’s story is a reminder of the challenges faced by women, even the most successful ones.
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What seems at first blush to be an innovative approach to franchise movie-making is nothing more than a futile exercise in cinematic nostalgia.
Terence Davies shooting Sunset Song in 2015.
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These films also chart the development of the director’s distinctive, very personal style.
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Most movies tend to minimise or exaggerate insomnia symptoms. Insomnia is also rarely depicted as an illness that can be treated.
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Passionate, greedy and violent, Michael Gambon was electric as the gangster Albert Spica.
The SAG-AFTRA actors union has been on strike since July 2023.
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Studios say the number is unrealistic − that it amounts to actors not assuming any financial risk for content that flops. But actors simply want to adapt existing payout models to changing technology.
In one of the earliest queer films, protagonist Paul Körner embraces his lover after a blackmailer harasses them.
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A silent German film from 1918 was one of cinema’s first dramatic presentations of queer love. Over a century later, and the story of love in a hostile social environment still resounds.
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My PhD considered Branagh’s self-fashioning through Shakespeare, little anticipating the disparate output that was to come.
Tom Cruise is welcomed by fans during the red carpet event for ‘Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One’ in Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 2023.
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The movie offers both Hollywood history and Cruise’s presence as weapons of human resistance to the hazards of AI in filmmaking.
Harvey Keitel as Charlie in Scorsese’s seminal Mean Streets.
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From Mean Streets to The Exorcist and Badlands, 1973 was a year that showcased the audacious talent in Hollywood that was experimenting with darker themes and new film techniques.
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You can be connected across lifetimes in so many different ways, from lovers to passerbys.
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Fondly known as the King of Bollywood, Khan’s cinematic influence on Indian cinema is a story that transcends borders and generations.
Cakase Kruiper, a San elder, explains her connection to the cosmos in the film !Aitsa.
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To the ǀXam and San people, being in the world as a person includes “the sky’s things” - an understanding of and deep connection with the cosmos.