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‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is a reminder of the dark joys that can be found in David Fincher’s devilish thriller “When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head,” narrates Ben Affleck in the opening scene of Gone Girl , David…
A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
Soraya Akhlaghi filmed her perilous flight from Iran and precarious new life over five years on her phone, reassembled here with yearning animations The world feels like an overwhelmingly forlorn place in this striking refugee self-portrait, shot on smartphone by Soraya Akhlaghi over five years and…
100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama dreamlike through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community
Kunsang Kyirong’s debut feature fades like a vapour trail in a mood of disorientation and dislocation Not much happens and very little is explained in this elliptical, elusive drama by Canadian-Tibetan film-maker Kunsang Kyirong. Her film, her feature directing debut, takes us inside the tight-knit…
Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting | Sian Cain
Hollywood’s weirdest man has entered the fray and the casting decision that has dragged on and on suddenly feels exciting for the first time Why does anyone want to play James Bond? The franchise seems to spit out its leads, leaving them wrecked and disillusioned. “I’d like to kill him,” Sean…
Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
Allen, the first live-action film from Pearson’s Ludo Studio, follows a man who met an alien as a kid – and becomes obsessed with bringing him back Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If, for whatever reason, you want to feel a bit sad, think too hard about what Elliott from ET would have…
‘I’ve seen people in my neighbourhood pulled out of their cars’: Ava DuVernay on the cruelty and brutality of Trump’s America
Ten years after her landmark political documentary 13th, the film-maker delivers a follow-up on the 14th amendment – and the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle birthright citizenship When I ask Ava DuVernay how she kept her focus while making her new film – or how anyone does, when the…
Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold
Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard “It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight…
‘Life is like a heartbeat. It’s up and down, up and down’: Michelle Yeoh on casting cliches, marriage at 60 and playing a robot in Blade Runner 2099
Ballet dancer, action hero, Bond girl ... The actor won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once but she’s been through some challenges on the way Before agreeing to appear in Blade Runner 2099, Michelle Yeoh received a letter – “an amazing letter, a love letter” – from Silka Luisa, the…
Sebastián Lelio was a fascinating film-maker of great passion and poetry
Chilean director of films including Gloria and A Fantastic Woman could expertly capture both the personal and political Sebastián Lelio, director of A Fantastic Woman and Gloria, dies aged 52 The last 20 years have seen an amazing flowering of creativity from Chilean film-makers. The standard…
Sebastián Lelio, director of A Fantastic Woman and Gloria, dies aged 52
The Chilean film-maker, whose films starred Florence Pugh, Julianne Moore and Rachel Weisz, died at his home in Santiago Chilean film-maker Sebastián Lelio has died at the age of 52. He was best known for the Oscar-winning trans drama A Fantastic Woman and his English-language films included Gloria…
The Cat in the Hat review – Bill Hader brings plenty but this animated rework is a mess
The SNL alum has an appealing energy and this is an improvement on the 2003 travesty but it’s also far too long and strangely corporate Over a long enough timeline, perhaps every living alumnus of Saturday Night Live will play the Cat in the Hat. Mike Myers kicked off this unexpected tradition by…
If Dune is this generation’s Star Wars, we are all in big trouble
According to Florence Pugh, Denis Villeneuve’s stunningly strange and breathtaking universe is the equivalent to George Lucas’ heroic space opera. Let’s hope not A long time ago, far far away, in a galaxy called the 1970s, kids dreamed of joining the rebellion, rescuing a princess and blowing up…
Rocky review – 50 years on Stallone’s boxer remains a gritty contender
The actor’s triumphant breakthrough has clear ancestors in grimy tales of working-class struggle, but finds a fresh, rousing idealism Peter Farrelly’s new film I Play Rocky is about the underdog-with-heart story of how a great boxing movie got made against the odds with its plucky young untried…
‘Mom encouraged me to get breast implants’: Disney child star Christy Carlson Romano on fame, family and freedom
She started acting at six and by 16 was starring in Even Stevens with Shia LaBeouf. Then her career fell apart. Here, she explains how she survived growing up in the spotlight In a class at college, Christy Carlson Romano was encouraged to think about her “community”. Who were their people, the…
‘Too many stories exist only to make you think you’re on the right side’: Cristian Mungiu on Fjord, his disquieting social drama
The Romanian auteur’s new film could have been the kind of homogenous ‘Europudding’ he’s railed against for years. Instead, it’s a culture-clash skewering of conservative and liberal values worthy of its Palme d’Or ‘Pffff!” Cristian Mungiu lets out an exasperated sigh. We are sitting in the…
Elke Sommer obituary
Glamorous star of 1960s films best known for her role opposite Peter Sellers in A Shot in the Dark Like Ingrid Bergman and Sophia Loren, the German actor Elke Sommer was part of the postwar crossover wave of European stars who pepped up the tail end of the Hollywood studio era. Sommer, who has died…
‘George Lucas told me off for wearing lipstick’: Celia Imrie on Traitors, Star Wars and treating the lens like a lover
The actor answers your questions about trapeze lessons, Bond villain ambitions and Michael Caine’s top tips You looked as if you had such a good time on Celebrity Traitors last year – you had them hanging on your every word. What was it like? Who have you kept in touch with? breezehillpete They…
Raise the Red Lantern review – Gong Li gives a decade-defining performance in an addictively ruthless masterpiece
Gong simmers with rage, loneliness and humiliation as the ‘fourth mistress’ navigating the intimate political savagery of her husband’s compound in Zhang Yimou’s 1991 thriller Revisiting Zhang Yimou’s grippingly addictive psychological drama from 1991, adapted from a novella by Su Tong , is a…
‘Children were wearing fake life jackets’: one Syrian family’s terrifying, 10-year journey
In 2015, two film-makers first met 11-year-old refugee Israa, forced to abandon Aleppo for a new life in Europe, along with her parents and siblings. None of them imagined what would come next In 2015, an 11-year-old Syrian girl called Israa matter-of-factly explained how her family would survive…
I Play Rocky review – Anthony Ippolito adds knockout sweetness to the story of Stallone’s Hollywood triumph
Portraying the humour, passion and grit that took the actor from bit parts to Oscar glory, this making-of tale is even more mythic than the original movie For fun, excitement and the transcendental thrill of success, there’s nothing to touch this very enjoyable drama about the making of Sylvester…
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