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<p>‘I’ve done all sorts of things, but you just haven’t seen them because they’re often very bad and shown at four in the morning’: Margot Kidder in 1978</p>

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The tragedy and triumph of Superman’s Margot Kidder

As the late actor’s star-making performance in the cult slasher film ‘Black Christmas’ turns 50, Adam White looks back at one of the wildest movie stars of the Seventies, who played Lois Lane, fought the system and took the stigma out of living with mental illness

<p>Crowe your own way: Russell stars in new supervillain blockbuster ‘Kraven the Hunter' </p>

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What happened to Russell Crowe’s career? Where did it go wrong?

<p>Zoe Saldaña: ‘I have an energy, a fire that is very much still alive, and I want to challenge myself’ </p>

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Zoe Saldaña: ‘The Oscars tend to overlook actors using CGI technology’

<p>From festive to floppage: ‘Elf’, ‘Home Alone’ and the recent Amazon bomb ‘Red One’ </p>

What killed the Christmas movie?

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<p>‘Tucked away in the margins, perpetually bubbling under’: Tom Waits in the 1989 film ‘Cold Feet’</p>

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How Tom Waits became cinema’s great unsung character actor

The gravelly-voiced musician has worked with many of our best living filmmakers, from the Coen brothers to Paul Thomas Anderson. As he celebrates a milestone birthday, Xan Brooks explores his strange, wonderful second career

<p>Hitched: Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren as a married couple in ‘Marnie’ </p>

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The predatory obsession behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie, 60 years on

The dark 1964 psychodrama was blighted by a feud between Hitchcock and its star, Tippi Hedren, fuelled by the director’s sexual obsession with her, writes Geoffrey Macnab – and it reveals dark truths about its creator

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<p>Monkey business: Jonno Davies as Robbie Williams in ‘Better Man’ </p>

The Robbie Williams chimp biopic works far better than you might think

<p>Dreary and formless: Barry Jenkins’s ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ </p>

The Lion King 2 is a catastrophic waste of Oscar winner Barry Jenkins

Interviews

<p>‘As an actor, I always want to emote and go big, and for this I had to restrain myself a lot’ </p>

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Queer’s Drew Starkey on Daniel Craig: ‘We were so comfortable with our love scenes’

Cate Blanchett: ‘I think my natural state is to dig a little hole underground and burrow in for the winter’

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Cate Blanchett on her wild new film: ‘I can’t talk about the monkey brains – I signed an NDA’

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Fiona Shaw: ‘People were being shot out of cannons by the British – why aren’t we telling that story?’

<p>‘Now I do it all – I can play ambassadors and I can play shells’</p>

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Isabella Rossellini: ‘I was afraid to be compared to my mother’

<p>Lorraine Bracco: ‘At 70 years old I feel like I’m still eight'</p>

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Lorraine Bracco: ‘I got the Sopranos script... I was very, very upset’

<p>‘For the longest time, I gave myself value as a human because of my work. So when I potentially saw it ending, I was like, who even am I?’ </p>

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Scream’s Melissa Barrera on her year in Hollywood exile: ‘I felt like my life was over’

<p>‘You go from being a guy writing jokes in your apartment to being in 10 or 15 million homes every week’ </p>

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Paul Reiser: ‘Thanks to Stranger Things, kids don’t know that I’m funny’

<p>Andrea Arnold: ‘American TV is almost like a holiday from the struggles of my own films’ </p>

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Andrea Arnold on her new drama Bird: ‘The film is its own explanation’

Features

<p>Ninety-five per cent of imprisoned fathers who take part in Patton’s Date with Dad programme never return to jail once they are freed</p>

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In Netflix’s Daughters, dance brings girls and their imprisoned fathers back together

<p>Best in show: Just some of the 15 greatest films of 2024, from ‘Blitz’ and ‘Dune: Part Two’ to ‘La Chimera’ and ‘Perfect Days'</p>

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The 15 best films of 2024, ranked

<p>The man in me: Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, and the real McCoy</p>

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Bob Dylan is championing his own biopic – that should be a warning

<p>Grand Theft Hamlet</p>

Features

The people who put on a production of Hamlet… inside Grand Theft Auto

Flashbacks

<p>Merry X-mas: Sarah Polley, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr and Katie Holmes in the cult classic ‘Go’ </p>

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Go at 25: The making of the coolest Christmas movie of all time

<p>A pop-culture-infused catechism: Linda Fiorentino, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Rock on the poster art for ‘Dogma’ </p>

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How the outrageous comedy Dogma became practically impossible to see

<p>Best offence: The tiny stars of the ribald 2004 comedy ‘Team America: World Police’ </p>

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How Team America shocked the world (and outraged Sean Penn)

<p>Happy anniversary: Rachel Griffiths (left) and Toni Collette in ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ </p>

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Muriel’s Wedding and its flawed, brilliant heroine at 30

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