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British Film Institute receives mystery £87m donation to build new HQUndisclosed donor revives long-held plan for BFI to move out of 1950s building on London’s South Bank -
Warcraft: The Beginning review – end already nigh for gaming franchiseDuncan Jones’s adaptation of the online game has a veneer of grandeur and some intriguing characters but its fixation with CGI spectacle makes for a lifeless watch
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Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician moviesMiles Ahead and Born to Be Blue immortalise Miles Davis and link him to Chet Baker. I’m all for expanding the cinetrompette genre: the candidates pick themselves -
Rotten tomatoes: match the insult to the movie star feud - quizWith Johnny Depp saying that Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’, can you guess which piece of shade reportedly belongs to which celebrity sparring partners?
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Beauty and the Beast breaks trailer views record set by Star WarsFirst glimpse of Disney remake starring Emma Watson overtakes Star Wars: The Force Awakens with the biggest teaser audience in history
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Sing Street review – pop goes the playgroundA schoolboy forms a band to impress a girl in John Carney’s warm 1980s drama whose spirit recalls School of Rock
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A Hologram for the King review – sappy midlife strifeEven Tom Hanks’s reliable hassled everyman act can’t lift this tale of an IT salesman adrift in Saudi
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Departure review – stifling holiday dramaJuliet Stevenson takes the honours as a mother making an emotional trip to the south of France with her son
video & audio
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Emma Watson beats Star Wars and Alice sequel reviewed – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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Johnny Depp and Barnaby Joyce revive feud – videoThe narrative between Hollywood star Johnny Depp and Australia’s deputy PM Barnaby Joyce continues as Depp says Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’ on the Jimmy Kimmel show on Tuesday
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Alan Rickman: 'The Royal Court is where I found out who the hell I was' – videoIn this archive video, filmed in 2015, Alan Rickman remembers visiting the Royal Court as a teenager, starring in an acclaimed Irish version of The Seagull there and taking Rachel Corrie’s parents to see the play based on their daughter’s diaries
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Director Xavier Dolan: 'Cannes is sinking into a culture of hatred' – video interviewXavier Dolan, whose new film debuted to poor reviews at the Cannes film festival last week, shares his dismayed reaction to the critical mauling
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Johnny Depp explains Aussie apology, suggests Barnaby Joyce might be 'inbred with a tomato' – videoAppearing on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, Johnny Depp says Barnaby Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’, as he continues to mock the apology Depp made with his wife, Amber Heard, for smuggling their two dogs into Australia
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Tim Burton on Alice Through the Looking Glass – video interviewThe producer of the followup to Alice in Wonderland (which he directed) talks about the enduring power of fairytales
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Ken Loach's win is cheering – but the bluntness of I, Daniel Blake may shock BritsNo one would begrudge the great director his second Palme d’Or victory for a drama with a noble, emphatic message. Yet it also serves to illustrate the differences between the Cannes crowd and the wider film audience
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Star Trek Beyond: 13 reasons to get excited about the new trailerAfter a goofy teaser trailer, the second preview of the upcoming sci-fi sequel has enough mystery, hardware and aliens to get fans excited
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As Cannes closes, a new breed of female lead emerges: empowered, careerist –and 'gender-neutral'Debate still rages over the scarcity of women directors, but many at the festival have been encouraged by the wealth of competition films featuring female leads – not all of them preoccupied with their love lives
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Captain America: Civil War – how I was bludgeoned by a blockbusterDo people go to see superhero-stuffed movies at the cinema because they’re searching for a collective experience in an increasingly isolated world?
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Laura Poitras on her new Julian Assange film: ‘Few people could stand the pressure he is under’The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, is back with a fly-on-the wall view of Julian Assange’s bid to escape extradition
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Kate Beckinsale: ‘Our phones were tapped by spooks when we were growing up’After her father, Richard, died, the Underworld star grew up in London surrounded by her stepdad’s leftie pals. Now in LA, she tells us about starring in Whit Stillman’s Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship
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'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war storiesHe’s may be a Hollywood veteran, but the Scot’s new film is a low-key coming-of-age tale set in London’s 70s punk scene. From Cannes, he discusses ‘tender man’ Joe Strummer, and how he learnt his trade from his fridge-freezer salesman dad
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Joseph Fiennes: the sequelTwenty years ago, the Shakespeare in Love star had Hollywood at his feet – then he all but disappeared. So what happened? He tells Tim Adams
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven: ‘For women in Turkey it’s like the middle ages’The Turkish director talks about her Oscar-nominated film Mustang – and why reaction to it at home made her take her talents elsewhere
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Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’In the 90s she was dubbed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. Now happily reunited with Whit Stillman, she looks back at her rollercoaster career
regulars
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Five best momentsFive best momentsJames McAvoy: five best momentsAs he reprises his role as Professor X in X-Men: Apocalypse, we look back at the Scottish actor’s most memorable films
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The film quizThe film quizRotten tomatoes: match the insult to the movie star feud - quizWith Johnny Depp saying that Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce looks like he’s ‘inbred with a tomato’, can you guess which piece of shade reportedly belongs to which celebrity sparring partners?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportX-Men gang up on an exhausted Captain America at UK box officeMarvel superhero movie X-Men: Apocalypse takes £7.35m on its debut weekend, while Angry Birds flap hard to stay above The Jungle Book
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentStraight Talking: how Chelsea Handler’s new show changes the TV gameA Netflix series that’s made in just 48 hours may be a first, but Chelsea is still in thrall to chatshow convention
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!A window on infinity: rediscovering the short films of the Lumière brothersAs shown by a new restoration of some of the 1,400 shorts that the pioneers of early cinema filmed, the Lumières were true artists as well as inventors
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsVictoria; Spotlight; The Big Short; The Assassin; Dirty Grandpa; Mavis!; Eat Your Bones – reviewLove blossoms at double-quick speed in this amazing one-take heist thriller, while Spotlight celebrates the merits of listening
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Sex, ghosts, money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016The films previewed at Cannes span revolutionary politics, explicit nudity and paranormal activity. Here are the five top themes
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Satanic sharks and killer donuts: best of the worst film posters at Cannes 2016These movies won’t win awards – they’ll be lucky just to get an audience. Here are some of the horror shows looking for a buyer at the festival
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Beasts of Cannes: the animals are unleashedFrom Pedro Almodovar’s sexually suggestive reindeer to Andrea Arnold’s big yawning bear, animals have invaded the Cannes film festival – on screen and off
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Meep meep! Screen stars with only one thing to sayThe Angry Birds movie features Sean Penn as a bird who does little but growl – but it’s just the latest in a long line of laconic film and TV roles
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When Animals Dream: how werewolf films explore growing painsAdolescent agony meets anaesthetised acting in this po-faced example of a familiar teen horror trope
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Cannes 2016 week one report: surreal scenes at the PalaisThe film festival got under way with a bit of terror training, some tepid Woody Allen and a fierce return from Ken Loach
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