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Golden Globes review: the Oscars’ wilder, chaotic cousin fails to justify its existence
Host Jerrod Carmichael took no prisoners and Ke Huy Quan's win meant something. But this was Hollywood at its most boring and indulgent
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Put ’em up, Jackman: why are modern celebrity ‘feuds’ so boring?
Oscars slap aside, today's Hollywood spats are toothless, choreographed affairs. Remember when stars truly knew how to hold a grudge?
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The glorious history of Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes insults
Unsurprisingly, the nose-tweaking comedian won’t return to host this year’s ceremony. But he certainly left his mark down the years...
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Sorry, Hollywood – underage screen nudity has always been indefensible
From Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet to Pretty Baby, adolescent nudity has long been justified as art. But a new lawsuit may change that
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Was ‘It girl’ Clara Bow the real-life epitome of Babylon – or one of predatory Hollywood’s earliest victims?
The 1920s film star inspired Margot Robbie’s latest role – but the reality of her story is far sadder and darker
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‘Peter O’Toole could have been killed – it’s a pity he wasn’t’: inside Lawrence of Arabia’s hellish shoot
The Oscar-winning epic made the actor a star – but he almost proved the film's undoing
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‘It’s crazy that nobody died’: the survivors of James Cameron’s traumatic Titanic shoot
The making of the $200m epic involved mass walk-outs, giant tantrums and a terrified Kate Winslet – as recalled by cast and crew
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From Oppenheimer to Barbie and beyond: the films to watch in 2023
Napoleon, Indiana Jones and – of course – Tom Cruise are just a few of 2023's movie highlights. Here, in chronological order, are the rest
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My 10 best films of 2022 – and my worst
This year gave us an unassailable argument for cinema as mass art – and The Nan Movie
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Peter von Kant, review: gender-flipped remake of a 70s classic falls short
François Ozon has remade a Fassbinder masterpiece, but the mystique and intrigue of the original is missing
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How Pele and a team of ‘soccer’-averse Americans made Escape to Victory the perfect football film
A past-his-prime football genius; a grumpy Sly Stallone; a director who'd never seen a match… Thanks to a stoic Michael Caine, they scored
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How the ‘cursed’ Lady from Shanghai broke Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth for good
Welles’s film noir was a last-ditch attempt to save Hollywood's golden couple – instead, it put paid to their troubled marriage
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Lightyear, Moonfall and beyond: the biggest box office flops of 2022
Top Gun absolutely flew in 2022. But the rest of Hollywood dropped bombs left, right and centre
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‘Hitting a bullet with a bullet’: Tom Cruise and the impossible mission of Top Gun: Maverick
How one experimental aircraft, several brushes with death and a very stubborn star pulled off the biggest stunt in cinema history
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The idiotic tech billionaires who inspired Glass Onion
They shun phones, have infinitely more money than taste, 'disrupt' the world with bad ideas… And Rian Johnson's film skewers them perfectly
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A Kitten for Hitler: the most offensive Christmas film ever made
Melvyn Bragg once challenged the wild director Ken Russell to make a film so offensive even Russell would have it banned. He obliged
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‘We felt like soldiers in Vietnam’: the life and death making of The Abyss
James Cameron’s deep-sea epic Avatar: The Way of Water was nightmare to film. But it was day at the beach compared to The Abyss
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Why Steven Spielberg’s E.T. is the ultimate divorce movie
The sci-fi weepie, released 40 years ago this month, is about more than a lost alien – it's about a director filling 'the gap in his heart'
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Scrooge the sex pest: why Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is the most toxic Dickens film ever made
The abominable Christmas Carol retread was a nadir for Matthew McConaughey. But, Scrooge-like, it forced him to see the error of his ways