Film

Werner Herzog, right, receives the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award from Francis Ford Coppola during the opening ceremony of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

Weeks after hospitalisation, Coppola thrills Venice Festival

The legendary director honored his friend Werner Herzog, launching the year’s unofficial start to the Oscars race.

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The western 3:10 to Yuma and 1938 French film Port of Shadows are among the 18 restored films being featured at the Venice Film Festival.

At the Venice Film Festival, older films look good as new

The Venice Classics section of the festival screens past films that have been restored by archives and production companies.

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THE WASHINGTON POST: ‘Kill Bill’ sneakers turn Japan soft power into hard profits.

‘Kill Bill’ sneakers turn Japan soft power into hard profits

THE WASHINGTON POST: Onitsuka Tiger is enjoying record sales, with tourists flooding flagship stores all over Japan.

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Set just two years after the original 1979 movie Alien, how does Alien: Earth fit in with the franchise.

With decades of Alien lore, how does the new series fit in

With the release of the new FX series Alien: Earth, a sci-fi saga set in the 22nd century is trying to play catch-up to the 21st.

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One of India’s most loved comedians has died.

Outpouring of grief as Bollywood star dies after stroke

Millions of fans have expressed their sorrow after one of India’s most beloved comedian and actors has died after battling illness for the last few months.

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Australian actor Guy Pearce.

Guy Pearce in talks to play Rupert Murdoch in The Sun movie

The Australian actor could be suiting up as the media mogul in a Danny Boyle movie about the moment Rupert Murdoch changed the British newspaper industry.

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STRANGER THINGS. Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix 2025

Netflix loses Stranger Things talent over sticky point

The creators of Stranger Things will leave Netflix for a rival because of the streamer’s hostility to communal experiences.

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Eddington is in cinemas on August 21.

The man who captured modernity’s fears and anxieties

Ari Aster has made some truly terrifying films - Midsommar, Hereditary - and his latest looks at political division and mistrust. But he’s not the weirdo you think he is.

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Riz Ahmed in Relay.

Old-school thriller that Hollywood rarely does well anymore

What happened to the solid two-hour thriller film that ticks all the boxes and leaves you feeling satisfied? Not everything has to be a TV show. Relay shows how it’s done.

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Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson at the London premiere of The Naked Gun.

The onscreen couples who got real and stole the spotlight

Meet the celebrity couples took the script to heart and stole the spotlight from the movies they met on.

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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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