Film

Life of Chuck is in cinemas.

Stephen King movie is dripping with eyeroll sentimentalism

The Life of Chuck is supposed to be a celebration of all the joys and losses of the human experience, but everything about it is on the surface.

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Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme.

Timmy and The Rock are players in a brotherly face-off

Josh and Benny Safdie are making their own movies for the first time in 15 years. Yet somehow, they’re both releasing sports biopics at the same time.

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David Stratton dies aged 85.

Legendary Aussie film critic dies aged 85

The Australian cinema community has lost one of its most passionate champions. Beloved film critic David Stratton has died at 85.

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Huntr/x has conquered the US Billboard Hot 100 with “Golden”.

‘Golden’ hits no 1, a first for a K-pop girl group

THE WASHINGTON POST: First they slayed seductive, singing demons. Then they smashed Netflix streaming records. Now Huntr/x are conquering the charts.

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Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity.

More Jason Bourne in the works after mega rights deal

Everyone’s favourite amnesiac super spy will enter a new era after Universal signed an expensive deal with author Robert Ludlum’s estate.

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Sylvester Stallone will be celebrated with the 2025 Kennedy Center honours, the US president says.

Trump picks Stallone, Kiss and maybe himself for arts honour

The annual Kennedy Centre Honours production may see significant changes under Donald Trump, who revealed the honourees during a visit to the arts complex on Wednesday.

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Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to work with his son.

What made Daniel Day-Lewis backtrack on retirement

In 2017, Daniel Day-Lewis declared he was done with acting, and formally quit. After eight years, he’s back with his new film to premiere next month.

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FILE — Catherine Hurlin of the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, June 12, 2019. This month, “Black Swan” returns to theaters for its 15th anniversary, and while many film critics still admire it, professional ballet dancers’ feelings about it remain complicated. (Bryan Derballa/The New York Times)

Cracked mirror ‘Black Swan’ held up to ballet

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ballet dancers tended to be unenthusiastic about the Darren Aronofsky film, seeing a jumble of bad ballet cliches instead of a thrilling story about a tortured perfectionist.

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Jennifer Aniston has spoken candidly about her divorce from Brad Pitt.

Aniston’s shock ‘love triangle’ Pitt divorce admission

Twenty years after two of Hollywood’s biggest names went their separate ways, superstar actor Jennifer Aniston has given a rare insight recounting the fallout following her divorce from Brad Pitt.

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Platonic, The Naked Gun and The Spy all offer some laughter therapy for viewers right now.

Vitamin C: Why comedy is the salve we need so badly now

WENLEI MA: Comedy is a balm, a chicken soup for the soul. It distracts us and it heals us. When everything starts to feel overwhelming, comedy is what pulls us out of a funk.

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Emma Thompson says she turned down an invitation from Donald Trump in the 1990s.

Oscar-winning actress turned down date with Trump

‘That’s stalking’: Beloved British actress, Emma Thompson, says Donald Trump called her to ask her out the same day her divorce was finalised.

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Sharon Stone’s painting career is buzzing, including a well-received exhibition in San Francisco last year.

Sharon Stone still refuses to behave for Hollywood

Decades after her culture-shaking performance in ‘Basic Instinct’, the actress is as daring as ever — and not just on film.

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The Naked Gun is in cinemas on August 21.

The Naked Gun is just bloody excellent dumb fun

No joke but The Naked Gun may be the funniest 85 minutes you’ll spend in a cinema this year. You’d be a fool to wait for it to land on streaming.

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Sex and the City.

Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw: A tale of two city girls

Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw both stormed on the scene as two 30-something city girls selling us a fantasy of excitement, love and friendship. Where did those dreams end up?

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The Pickup is streaming on Prime.

Eddie Murphy forgets to bring the laughs in new ‘comedy’

To say Eddie Murphy phoned it in would be generous. There’s no fizz in this unlikely bedfellows heist comedy.

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