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The sensational break-out star of The Phoenician Scheme
Focus Features Wes Anderson and the cast of The Phoenician Scheme tell the BBC about how they made the film,…
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This outlandish horror about an Aids-like epidemic is a ‘disorientating, maddening whirlwind’
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival After winning the Palme d’Or for the shocking Titane, out-there French director Julia Ducournau is…
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How Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated winner of the best-picture Oscar
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood’s idea…
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Jennifer Lawrence is ‘better than ever’ in a searing portrait of motherhood
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in Lynne Ramsay’s…
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Wes Anderson takes his quirkiness ‘to a whole new level’
Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival Featuring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson and many more, the director’s latest…
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This ‘deranged’ starry thriller about the US’s pandemic divisions will ‘leave you breathless’
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster is once again…
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How history’s brutal witch trials still resonate now
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly…
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One pair of jeans is all we need – here’s why
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) From skinny to barrel and ultra-high to low-slung, jeans trends are ever changing – so…
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Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be ‘the feel-bad film of the summer’
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise’s…
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What Gérard Depardieu’s conviction means for France
Getty Images Yesterday, the French mega-star was found guilty of sexual assaulting two women on a film set. It’s verdict…
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