Film

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Dwayne Johnson on the red carpet for The Smashing Machine at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s shock body transformation

The Hollywood superstar is almost unrecognisable in The Smashing Machine, which tells the story of legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr.

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Julia Roberts at the After The Hunt red carpet during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

Julia Roberts has entered the Oscar hunt. This will be fun

The actress charmed the Venice Film Festival even as her new movie — a thorny thriller from Luca Guadagnino about a rape accusation — confounded some critics.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Selling a George Clooney movie without George Clooney at the Venice Film Festival.

Selling a George Clooney movie without the guy himself

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Clooney’s not the type to duck and run. What could have kept him off the dais this time?

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Hank (Austin Butler, centre) with Lipa (Liev Schreiber, left) and Shmully (Vincent D'Onofrio) in Caught Stealing.

Austin Butler shines amid the grit in comedic crime thriller

Director Darren Aronofsky and a raft of character actors bring it home in grubby New York crime thriller Caught Stealing.

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Cate Blanchett at La Grazia  red carpet at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

Blanchett headlines Venice Film Festival

The Australian actress was a picture of glamour and grace on La Grazia’s red carpet call, which also featured model Heidi Klum and her daughter Leni.

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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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