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Peter De Rome: the RAF pilot who became the Grandfather Of Gay PornThe late British director filmed men that he’d met in the streets of New York having sex - and made great art in the process, says a new documentary -
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Harry Styles offered part in Christopher Nolan's DunkirkThe One Direction singer has reportedly been discussing his first major acting role alongside Tom Hardy and Kenneth Branagh in the second world war drama -
Lilly Wachowski: putting gender on the agenda in life and filmWith Lilly joining her film-making sibling Lana in coming out as a transgender woman this week, the Wachowskis’ tales of fluid identities and brave leaps into the unknown take on even greater poignancy
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Can the celebrated Criterion Collection make a splash in the UK?The label famed for licensing classy classic and contemporary cinema comes to Britain in April – but what impact will it have?
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Disney's furry fable gets its claws out for the bigotsPredators and prey learn to get along in this animated tale of species coexistence – until a stray comment from the bunny-cop heroine turns the whole place into a hate-filled Trump rally
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Gerard Butler bromance brews as Big Ben blowsA cheap-looking sequel to Olympus Has Fallen has the capital city targeted by terrorists allowing the US president time to chill with his favourite security guard
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Malick's back! With the least interesting spiritual crisis in historyTerrence Malick’s study of Christian Bale’s torment is, despite moments of visual flairm, all smouldering dalliances, ruin-porn landscapes and self-pitying shallowness
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The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet - videoWhat if there were ‘countries’ the size of the average suburban household? What if they had their own rules, laws, and currencies? What if one of them almost brought the entire Internet to its knees?
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Napster does movies and The Witch reviewed – the Dailies podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Thursday’s movie news and reviews
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Sacha Baron Cohen's Queen fallout and The Ones Below reviewed – the Dailies podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news and reviews
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Emma Watson and Forest Whitaker on gender equality and the arts – videoFilm stars Emma Watson and Forest Whitaker spoke at a United Nations event in New York on Tuesday to help celebrate International Women’s Day
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Charlie Kaufman on Anomalisa: 'The internet is a terrible danger' – video interviewCharlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their film’s commentary on seeking one true love, the digital revolution – and customer service
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How not to ask Leo a question and Divergent: Allegiant reviewed – the Dailies podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Tuesday’s movie news and reviews
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The Secret Actress: who’d have thought Netflix would usher in gender equality?In her column lifting the lid on the film and TV industry, an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actor challenges the old white dudes running Hollywood
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Hail, Caesar! It's screwball comedy – who cares what really happened?The Coens whitewash Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix and up the communism to create their sharp but inaccurate satire
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Five things we learned from Marvel's final Captain America: Civil War trailerThe new Spider-Man looks smooth but supercool, Team Iron Man looks to have a serious advantage, and this scrap just got personal
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Will Matrix film-makers coming out as women turn off men's rights activists?It’s ironic that a film popular with men fearing a world controlled by women turns out to have been made by transgender siblings
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Fifty shades of gross – Marlon Wayans on body fungus, weird sex and Donald TrumpAfter making his name with his brothers on the Scary Movie franchise, the crown prince of gross-out’s next target is even more terrifying – the prose of EL James
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The Witch: ‘Good horror is taking a look at what’s dark in humanity’Set in 1630s New England, Robert Eggers’s film is redefining the horror genre with its period detail and scares. It’s the stuff of real nightmares, he tells us
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Dustin Hoffman: ‘I was an outsider. I came to New York and I was cleaning toilets’Even after The Graduate made him a superstar, he always saw himself as a ‘funny looking semitic guy’ on the fringes of fame. Five decades on he talks about racism and the movies, how Tootsie made him a feminist and why he wishes he was Jack Nicholson
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Ben Wheatley: ‘Financing a film as crazy as this takes good casting’As his adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 sci-fi novel High-Rise is released, the director talks about his love of uncompromising films and why he reads all his reviews
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George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’The superstar is playing a ‘numbskull’ for the Coens again in Hollywood satire Hail, Caesar! In an exclusive interview he talks about why he should have cast more black actors, the stranger-than-fiction presidential campaign and his faith in fellow Americans to ‘do the right thing’
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Wes Bentley: 'I have no problem with nudity – it's just a body'The American Beauty star, who is in the middle of a comeback after fighting addiction, talks about working with Terrence Malick on Knight of Cups and taking it off for American Horror Story: Hotel
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsJennifer Jason Leigh: five best momentsWith major roles in Anomalisa and The Hateful Eight, Leigh is receiving the comeback she has long deserved but what have been her finest performances
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The film quizThe film quizThin red lying? Find the true Terrence Malick story - quizAs the stars of The Thin Red Line director’s new film Knight of Cups reveal yet more insights into his offbeat process, can you pick out the real actor quotes from the lies?
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentPeter De Rome: the RAF pilot who became the Grandfather Of Gay PornThe late British director filmed men that he’d met in the streets of New York having sex - and made great art in the process, says a new documentary
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsThe Dressmaker; Game of Thrones 5; Time Out of Mind; Güeros; Flowers and more – reviewKate Winslet camps it up with a sewing machine, Richard Gere impresses as a vagrant, while Güeros and Flowers offer contrasting Hispanic flavours
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A movie theater that pelts you with fake rain and added smells? Bring it onNew York welcomes its first 4DX cinema, where films such as Batman v Superman are enhanced by shaking seats, wind, and scents
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Leading ladies: the women who helped build HollywoodWhile the film industry still struggles with gender inequality today, the history of early and silent cinema is filled with female producers, directors and writers
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Anomalisa: Charlie Kaufman’s unique take on the mid-life crisis movieAlienation, boredom – and puppetry? As you might expect from the master surrealist, this isn’t your usual introspective indie comedy-drama
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From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on filmFor years, pregnant women on film have either been neurotic, placid or walking grossout gags. Alice Lowe, who directed and starred in her own horror film at seven months, says we should expect more
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#OscarsSoWhite: who is really to blame for the Oscars' lack of diversity?Voter prejudice is shouldering much of the blame for the Academy Awards’ lack of diversity. But who is really responsible?
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#OscarsSoWhite: a 10-point plan for change by the hashtag’s creatorHow should the Academy Awards address its diversity problem? The woman behind the hashtag, April Reign, shares her suggestions
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