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<p>Newlyweb: Dakota Johnson as Cassie in the terrible ‘Madame Web'</p>

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Madame Web is beyond abysmal – but the most fun superhero film in ages

Dakota Johnson’s bizarre new Marvel adaptation hits all the wrong buttons. A disaster like this is mesmerising to watch, writes Louis Chilton

<p>Biopics: Sam Mendes will direct four separate films about The Beatles, with one focusing on each band member </p>

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Sam Mendes is making four Beatles films – but which will be the best?

<p>‘As I’ve gotten older, the parts I’m offered have got more interesting. As a man, I take so much for granted’ </p>

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Peter Sarsgaard on nudity, anxiety and marriage to Maggie Gyllenhaal

<p>Robert Downey Jr accepting the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Baftas</p>

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Robert Downey Jr’s brutal MCU dig wasn’t ungrateful – he’s earned it

Inside Film

<p>Kristen Stewart at Berlinale to promote her new movie ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ </p>

How Kristen Stewart went from ‘Most Hated Actor’ to indie provocateur

The former ‘Twilight’ star has carved out a formidable career in the indie world. Her new queer romance-thriller ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ may be her most fearless project yet, writes Geoffrey Macnab

<p>The fight stuff: Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s 1999 cult hit</p>

Incels, Trump and neo-Nazis: Why do men keep misreading Fight Club?

As David Fincher’s scandalous satire is re-released in cinemas to mark its 25th anniversary, Geoffrey Macnab looks at why ‘Fight Club’ is still such a vital exploration of masculinity – despite a dubious reputation

Oscars 2024

<p>Random resume: songwriter Diane Warren with some of the films she’s put in the Oscar history books via her lyrics</p>

How the Best Song Oscar was taken over by films no one’s heard of

The Best Original Song prize is in dire straits – thanks to the Oscars’ love of identikit power ballads about inner strength and resilience, many of which tend to be written by the same woman. Adam White digs into the rise of largely unknown movies dominating the weirdest category at the Academy Awards

How the Best Song Oscar was taken over by films no one’s heard of

The Best Original Song prize is in dire straits – thanks to the Oscars’ love of identikit power ballads about inner strength and resilience, many of which tend to be written by the same woman. Adam White digs into the rise of largely unknown movies dominating the weirdest category at the Academy Awards

<p>Random resume: songwriter Diane Warren with some of the films she’s put in the Oscar history books via her lyrics</p>

<p>Cool for cats: Allen Ludden, Betty White and Seventies advertising superstar Morris the Cat at the 1973 Patsy Awards</p>

Diva dogs, Reagan’s chimp and the surreal history of the animal Oscars

<p>Peter Finch, James Dean, Chadwick Boseman and Heath Ledger are among the stars who’ve won or been nominated for Oscars after death</p>

Struck down, struck gold: the curious history of the posthumous Oscar

<p>Survival of the baitiest: ‘Shakespeare in Love’, ‘The English Patient’, ‘Maestro’, ‘The Iron Lady’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ could all be considered awards bait</p>

How Oscar bait took over awards season

Ken or Billie: Who will win this year’s Oscar for Best Original Song?

Ken or Billie: Who will win this year’s Oscar for Best Original Song?

<p>The musical number from hell: Rob Lowe and Eileen Bowman perform an infamous duet at the 1989 Oscars</p>

Rob Lowe, Snow White and the night that nearly killed the Oscars

<p>Tatum O’Neal poses with her Oscar in 1974</p>

Tatum O’Neal and the bleak story behind the youngest ever Oscar win

Reviews

<p>Timothée Chalamet in ‘Dune: Part Two’ </p>

Dune: Part Two is like no other blockbuster in existence

<p>Gasp: Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman in ‘Wicked Little Letters’</p>

A sweary Olivia Colman is enough to sustain Wicked Little Letters

Interviews

<p>‘Wow! Who’d a thunk it, that Travis on his long way home to Paris, Texas would turn out to be a Beyonce fan!’ </p>

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Wim Wenders on his new film and Beyoncé’s tribute to Paris, Texas

<p>‘You know when you’re going through hard times in this industry? I’ve finally made it to the top of the mountain’ </p>

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Danielle Brooks on the Oscars, fair pay and The Color Purple: ‘We are more than just sassy Black women’

<p>‘If you are sending an artist to Eurovision that hasn’t had as much experience, they need to have support on deck’</p>

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Mae Muller on her acting debut and life after Eurovision: ‘You get lost in the rat race’

‘I didn’t have to emote. I didn’t have to be sad. I didn’t have to despair!'

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Maura Tierney on The Iron Claw, Joe Rogan and the aftermath of ER: ‘I need to stop playing women in despair’

‘I have never in my career been invested in by the industry. Never'

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Jeffrey Wright on Bond, bankability and his Oscar nod: ‘I’m thinking about it more than is healthy’

Sophie Wilde

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Talk to Me breakout Sophie Wilde: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’

<p>‘I’ve played quite a lot of toxic men. But I’ve become fascinated with the question of, “how do we humanise these morally corrupt characters?”’</p>

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Hill House star Oliver Jackson-Cohen: ‘It’s odd to be Netflix famous’

<p>‘I consider myself to be grounded and intact with reality'</p>

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Kevin Hart on offence, Netflix’s Lift and awards shows: ‘I don’t consider them good gigs’

Features

<p>Zac Efron turns in a tough but disarmingly tender performance as the last surviving Von Erich brother </p>

Meet the wrestlers who transformed Zac Efron for The Iron Claw

<p>Smiling evil: Sandra Hüller as Hedwig in ‘The Zone of Interest’</p>

Features

The Zone of Interest: Inside the making of a radical Holocaust film

<p>‘I think a lot of his stuff can be quite shocking for people’: Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Birth’, ‘The Zone of Interest’, ‘Sexy Beast’ and ‘Under the Skin’ (clockwise from top right)</p>

How Jonathan Glazer became our greatest and most mysterious filmmaker

<p>Below the surface: Andrew Scott in Andrew Haigh’s moving new drama ‘All of Us Strangers’ </p>

Loneliness is our deepest shame – can cinema help us confront it?

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<p>Hair apparent: Henry Cavill in ‘Argylle’ </p>

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Argylle is a disaster for all involved – but especially Henry Cavill

<p>Hillary Clinton drew parallels between the Oscar snub of ‘Barbie’ and her 2016 election loss</p>

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Hillary Clinton’s Barbie Oscars snub post is predictably excruciating

<p>Smell blessings: Paul Giamatti in ‘The Holdovers'</p>

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The Holdovers’ stroke of genius was making its hero stink of fish

<p>A tottering meat puppet who finds desire and agency: Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’</p>

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Poor Things gets that nothing scares men like female sexual liberation

Flashbacks

<p>Lead duo Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, neither of whom were the first choice for their roles </p>

Blazing Saddles at 50: The story of the wackiest western ever made

<p>Fond of your face: Bridget Fonda at a premiere in 1999, and in films ‘Single White Female’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘Jackie Brown’</p>

Bridget Fonda at 60: the Nineties great who vanished without a trace

<p>Samurai man: Tom Cruise in his 2003 historical epic ‘The Last Samurai’ </p>

Was The Last Samurai Tom Cruise’s last great movie?

<p>Foul-mouthed, sore-ridden and yellow-eyed: the 13-year-old Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist’ </p>

Satan, scandal and S Club: The story of The Exorcist’s Linda Blair

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