Movies
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Restorations of The Fog, Escape from New York, Prince of Darkness and They Live show the makings of a movie maestro
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Some packages came from Florida, says homeland security secretary, as FBI analyse devices sent to Joe Biden and Robert De Niro -
Long-running franchises, in their attempts to bottle the essence of the original movie, are going back to source material and bringing back the old protagonists -
The new Michael Myers slasher is another franchise reboot in a market awash with them. Yet it is an unprecedented hit. Why? -
Phenomenally talented and famously caring, River Phoenix’s death shocked the world. His girlfriend Samantha Mathis talks for the first time about that awful night, and the man behind the myth
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2 out of 5 stars.
Halloween – Jamie Lee Curtis is back! But this time: no tricks or treats
2 out of 5 stars.Director David Gordon Green returns us to Haddonfield for a slasher reunion but the much hyped face-off between two old foes is frustratingly routine -
4 out of 5 stars.
Stenberg lives up to her promise in a hard-hitting adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling YA novel about a police shooting and racial strife -
4 out of 5 stars.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Melissa McCarthy forges a great performance
4 out of 5 stars.In this shaggy, melancholic true story, the Oscar nominee delivers some of her best work yet as a struggling biographer who finds an unlikely new source of income
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Mid90s – Jonah Hill's directorial debut is stylish but empty
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Wildlife – director Paul Dano luxuriously evokes smalltown woes
4 out of 5 stars.
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Video & Audio
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Ryan Gosling and the director Damien Chazelle talk to the Guardian's Catherine Shoard about their biopic based on James R Hansen's book First Man: The Life of Neil A Armstrong. The film follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969
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The actor Adam Pearson has a similar condition to Joseph Merrick, whose story was told in The Elephant Man. When the BBC was remaking the biopic, he did not even get an audition
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Burt Reynolds speaks candidly with Hadley Freeman about his varied career in film, the important relationships in his life and a clash with Marlon Brando
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What does a film about a black man going undercover with white terrorists tell us about the state of contemporary America and beyond?
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The actor and director addresses allegations of harassment for the first time, saying he contributed to an unprofessional environment on the set of his film I'm Still Here
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The movie industry has seen tech advances since its inception. But do audiences really want to have a say in a film’s plot?
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After Halloween’s record-breaking haul, Hollywood is set to look to the past to bring back horror’s most feared villains -
From Jafar’s treason and attempted murder to Scar’s regicide and assault, these cartoon caddies have clocked up some major hypothetical jail time. Perhaps Hollywood’s producers -
In Luca Guadagnino’s lavish remake of the giallo classic, genre formula is upended for something far more audacious. It’s the latest ‘art-horror’ to confuse audiences -
Halloween hit the big screen more than 40 years ago but why are the new generation of horror film leads still all white?
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The Gossip frontwoman has started acting, and her first role is a ‘redneck loud woman’ in the new Gus Van Sant film. She talks about the real women behind the southern stereotypes -
When acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul discovered he had ‘exploding head syndrome’, he let the condition feed into the film about trauma and memory he was making with Tilda Swinton -
‘At Massimo’s funeral, his film double walked behind the coffin in homage – and all the Neapolitans thought it was his ghost’
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His films tackled paedophilia, abortion and deadly dachshunds. In his debut play, the barbed laureate of US cinema explores the race and class dynamics of childcare. But his own nanny isn’t invited
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The acclaimed director answers a wide range of your questions about creative freedom, James Bond, and everything Rada didn’t teach him -
The Palestinian rapper on the power of Ramallah’s dance culture documented in a new film, Palestine Underground
Regulars
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It’s another week at the top for Bradley Cooper’s music-world drama, which sees off Jamie Lee Curtis’s return -
3 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Halloween review – a slasher classic you just can’t kill off
3 out of 5 stars.New hands are at the helm for a knowingly intelligent reboot of the 1978 masterpiece -
It’s that time of year when a cosy evening of horror beckons – and what better place to start than Shudder -
Long-running franchises, in their attempts to bottle the essence of the original movie, are going back to source material and bringing back the old protagonists
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Since 1905, the city in Maryland has been home to more than 240 cinemas and while many of these buildings have survived, only a few of them still show films. On 17 November, the National Building Museum in Washington DC is opening an exhibition to celebrate the artistry behind them, entitled Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters -
US elections and awards season have led to documentaries about Trump from both sides of the political divide. But how do we separate the lies from the truth?
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By dramatising the classic 70s album, Call Me By Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino is taking the movies in a new direction -
An original lithograph of the 1932 classic is set to sell for $1-1.5m, a record-breaking amount, representing a lost era of originality in the artform
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