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Police remove ‘pet’ three metre python from Chinese residential compound

A startled family found the unconscious reptile lying on ground inside their residential compound. Photo: Sina.cn

Horror film genre's defining moment

Edwin Neal menaces Marilyn Burns in one of the scenes that helped set a new benchmark in gothic horror.

Forty years after its release, horror genre-defining film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still terrifying, writes Stephen Applebaum.

Postcard: London

James Corden as talent-show winner Paul Potts inOne Chance.

Tilda Swinton plays a vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive

Unconventional actress Tilda Swinton brings the undead to life in Only Lovers Left Alive.

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Unresolved child murders give Atom Egoyan a storyline that fits his oeuvre

Ron Lax and Damien Nichols (played by Colin Firth and James Hamrick)

Postcard: New York

Bank robber John Wojtowicz in the 2013 documentary The Dog. His life inspired Sidney Lumet's 1975 film, Dog Day Afternoon.

US director gives hotel caper his five-star treatment

Wes Anderson on the set of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Photos: AP

Hugh Jackman explores the dark side in Prisoners

Hugh Jackman's role as the vigilante father of an abducted child shows a more sinister side of the versatile actor, writes Stephen Applebaum.

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