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<p>Tom Cruise and Michelle Monaghan in ‘Mission: Impossible III’</p>

The Countdown

15 times a director walked away from a blockbuster

Some disputes go far beyond the oft-given excuse of so-called creative differences. Tom Fordy on 15 times when a filmmaker has exited a project early

<p>Man of rust: Brandon Routh in Bryan Singer’s short-lived franchise reboot ‘Superman Returns’</p>

Flashbacks

Superman Returns was a super-flop – but it didn’t deserve the hate

<p>Charlize Theron in ‘The Old Guard 2’</p>

COMMENT

Charlize Theron’s remarks reveal a depressing truth about action films

<p>Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean in the seminal rock spoof ‘This Is Spinal Tap’</p>

inside film

Spinal Tap invented the rockumentary – and its influence is everywhere

Inside Film

<p>An extreme close-up of Telly and a 12-year-old girl making out, mouths grimly colliding, opens the film</p>

Inside Film

Thirty years later, Kids still has the power to disgust

Audiences, critics and politicians the world over were horrified by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s dramatisation of wayward Manhattan youth. Three decades on, writes Adam White, its provocations remain jolting – and desperate

<p>Misunderstood: Ryan O’Neal in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’</p>

INSIDE FILM

Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his ultimate masterpiece

Critically lambasted on its release, 1975’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ has only been embraced – then even more embraced – in the decades since. As it arrives back in cinemas, Xan Brooks salutes an often misunderstood classic

Reviews

<p>David Corenswet in James Gunn’s ‘Superman’</p>

James Gunn’s Superman will make you believe in comic book movies again

<p>Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’</p>

David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is more than just a thriller

Interviews

<p>‘When those moments arrive where your control is threatened, I can spot it now much earlier and steer it away as politely as I can. Or if I have to be rude, I’ll be rude’</p>

Interview

Danny Boyle: ‘Britain’s on the decline – whether we like it or not’

<p>‘I’m there on this rope, thinking... I studied the classics! I wanted to do Chekhov! How did I get here?’</p>

INTERVIEW

Gina Gershon: ‘I have a lot of PTSD from Showgirls’

<p>‘It’s been 21 years of my life that I have not had my father in it. And it’s a pain that I don’t ever express’</p>

Interview

Barbie Ferreira: ‘We all have daddy issues – literally everyone’

Filmmaker Hudson is releasing her first fiction feature

interview

From homelessness to filmmaking: Daisy-May Hudson on her film Lollipop

<p>‘I live a totally normal life – partly because I’m a shut-in and don’t leave the house that much’</p>

Interview

Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I would walk around Disney reading about death’

<p>Tim Key: ‘When I was a kid, I used to support Liverpool fanatically… then I realised that I’d never been to Liverpool’</p>

Interview

Tim Key: ‘Filming Alan Partridge, I was living in a lot of fear’

Jackie Chan: ‘Karate Kid: Legends is not too violent. In this movie, when you fight, it’s like dancing’

Interview

Jackie Chan at 71: ‘Jump off a building? I need a stunt double now’

<p>Matthew Rhys: ‘A plastic surgeon took one look at me and knew I was Celtic’</p>

Interview

Matthew Rhys: ‘I would have tried to play James Bond as a Welshman’

Features

<p>Tom Cruise carries a terrified Dakota Fanning in Steven Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds’</p>

How War of the Worlds became Spielberg’s most controversial movie

<p>The website is now home to 17 million users</p>

In Focus

Letterboxd is the Gen Z fad that might just save cinema

<p>Ralph Fiennes in ‘28 Years Later’</p>

28 Years Later’s twist is scandalous and utterly fascinating

<p>George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s ‘Femme’</p>

In Focus

How a violent drag queen thriller became too controversial for Britain

Flashbacks

<p>Sam Neill as Alan Grant, the reluctant Indiana Jones o<a href="/topic/indiana-jones"></a>f palaeontology, in ‘Jurassic Park III’</p>

Flashbacks

Time has proven Jurassic Park III to be the best dino-sequel

<p>An indispensable, delightful – and nostalgic – piece of Bond’s hallowed history: Roger Moore and Grace Jones in ‘A View to a Kill’</p>

Flashbacks

A View to a Kill doesn’t deserve its reputation as the worst ever Bond

<p>Romantic euphoria: Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in ‘Pride & Prejudice’</p>

Flashbacks

How 2005’s Pride & Prejudice became the ultimate 21st-century romcom

<p>Scream queen: Tina Turner reportedly beat out David Bowie and Mick Jagger to play the film’s Acid Queen</p>

Flashbacks

Baked beans, Tina Turner and Elton John on stilts: The story behind Tommy

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