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<p>Don’t call it a comeback: Mel Gibson in ‘The Beaver’, Johnny Depp in ‘Jeanne du Barry’ and Lindsay Lohan in ‘The Canyons’ </p>

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Johnny Depp and the rich history of the shambolic comeback film

Hollywood loves a redemption story – just look at Robert Downey Jr. But there’s something equally fascinating about the comebacks that sputter. Depp’s new film – opening quietly in cinemas this week – is part of a bizarre sub-genre of movies haunted and enhanced by the offscreen troubles of their stars, writes Xan Brooks

<p>Once upon a time in southern France: Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023</p>

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘10 films’ rule will ultimately damage his legacy

<p>‘In those moments, you’re so heated up’ – Tatiana Maslany reflects on calling Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘out of touch’ </p>

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She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany on Marvel, Mark Ruffalo and child acting

<p>‘There was no way I was going to get into anything that was scandal-based or disrespectful’: Marisa Abela and Jack O’Connell as Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in ‘Back to Black’ </p>

‘Approval from the family? That wouldn’t work for me’: Inside the making of Back to Black

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<p>No country for gold men: Margaret Nolan and Sean Connery in ‘Goldfinger’</p>

Sexism, xenophobia and a real-life Nazi: The tarnished legacy of Goldfinger at 60

The James Bond franchise has never been more purely pleasurable than the 1964 Sean Connery classic, writes Geoffrey Macnab. But the film’s myriad controversies have only worsened with age

<p>It has been a long time since fans and critics have had a major Angelina Jolie acting performance to watch</p>

Angelina Jolie is a huge star in the need of a great movie

Despite being one of the most famous women in Hollywood history, the actor is still more known for her complex love life than film roles of note. But could a biopic about Maria Callas turn her fortunes around, asks Geoffrey Macnab

Reviews

<p>Sofia Boutella in ‘Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver’ </p>

Zack Snyder’s long, repetitive Rebel Moon 2 is Seven Samurai in space

<p>Johnny Depp in Maïwenn’s ‘Jeanne du Barry’</p>

Johnny Depp comeback film Jeanne du Barry is listless and laughable

Interviews

<p>Billie Piper stars in ‘Scoop’, about the BBC’s quest to interview Prince Andrew: ‘I realised, Oh my God, there are these unsung women behind the story’ </p>

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Scoop’s Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

<p>‘I have a soapbox to stand on and something worth saying’ </p>

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Olivia Williams on playing Queen Camilla and her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends

<p>‘We’ve seen the celebration of being gay, of gay marriage, of having children and all of those wonderful things, but not so much the splitting up’ </p>

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Luke Evans on fashion, marriage and body image: ‘I wasn’t pretty or flawless – I looked like a bloke’

<p>Ernie Hudson: ‘We can say it’s a racial thing, but I think if Eddie Murphy had played the role I played, he would have been paid very well’ </p>

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Ernie Hudson on the new Ghostbusters sequel and the ‘disappointing’ reboot

<p>‘The most important thing for me in my career was to have arrived playing someone like that – a free woman’</p>

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The White Lotus’s Simona Tabasco on fame, sex scenes and being buried alive for her new film

<p>Scream queen: Caroline Munro in the classic Hammer horror film ‘Dracula AD 1972’ </p>

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Hammer Horror icon Caroline Munro on sex, violence and 007

<p>Viswanathan: ‘I have such a baby face... you can dress me up, dress me down, do whatever you want’</p>

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Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan wants to be your next romcom queen

<p>‘Alice Walker wanted <em>The Color Purple</em> to stand as an expression of her own bisexuality – we have to own those things’ </p>

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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Origin, Will Smith and how The Color Purple failed Black lesbians

Features

<p>Hinata Hiiragi and Sōya Kurokawa in the award-winning Japanese drama ‘Monster’</p>

Inside Monster, the groundbreaking new film exploring queer childhood

<p>The title screen for the cult 1992 video game ‘Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis’</p>

How a revolutionary video game rescued Dune from obscurity

<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>

The stars of The Zone of Interest on the making of a radical Holocaust film

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<p>Bored, games: Margot Robbie has announced she is developing a film adaptation of Monopoly</p>

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Margot Robbie’s Monopoly movie is a very depressing idea

<p>Drama: Keeley Hawes as Amanda Thirsk, Rufus Sewell as Prince Andrew and Charity Wakefield as Princess Beatrice in ‘Scoop’ </p>

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Netflix’s Scoop brings a new perspective on the Newsnight royal saga

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To hell with the hair – Aaron Taylor-Johnson will make a perfect Bond

<p>Emma Stone accepting her Oscar for ‘Poor Things’ </p>

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Emma Stone’s Best Actress win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right

Flashbacks

<p>Gorgeous, willowy and insouciant: Anna May Wong in ‘Island of Lost Men’ </p>

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Anna May Wong and the mystery of Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star

<p>Nineties greats: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair lead the cast of ‘Cruel Intentions’</p>

How Cruel Intentions compiled the best soundtrack in teen movie history

<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

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