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From Quentin Tarantino’s violent blockbusters to Steven Spielberg’s family entertainment, and from indie gems premiering at Sundance film festival to popular Hollywood franchises making waves at Comic-Con, this is the place to go for features, interviews and reviews about movies both classic and new from the United States.

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Donnie Yen’s stand-out appearance in John Wick: Chapter 4 is an excellent opportunity to raise Hong Kong’s global prominence, and the city’s government must step up to take it.

The film Shang-Chi, starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina and Tony Leung, showcases how Asian filmmakers and actors are moving ever further away from racist stereotypes. The cultural diversity now visible on screen is the result of larger demographic trends that the US far right cannot hold back even if it tried.

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  • Veteran Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage, 60, and his Japanese wife Riko Shibata, 28, are clearly still going strong after they were pictured holding hands on the Oscars red carpet last week
  • Shibata is the Pig star’s fifth wife after Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley, Alice Kim and Erika Koike, and gave Cage his first daughter, August, in September 2022

To play Wolverine, Hugh Jackman has had to bulk up and get shredded more than once in the last quarter-century. How does he do it? We take a look at his fitness routine and the diet he follows.

Hans Zimmer has written scores for some of Hollywood’s biggest films, from The Lion King to The Dark Knight, but rarely plays live. Now he’s on a world tour, preparing for his first American dates in 7 years.

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After months of media speculation about Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied’s marriage being strained, the pair have officially called it quits – here’s what you need to know about him

Cena’s nude appearance at the Oscars became one of the most talked-about moments of the evening – so who’s the woman who’s seen it all before, Shay Shariatzadeh?

Spring 2024 is all about safe bets from franchises – think new Kung Fu Panda, Godzilla and Planet of the Apes movies. There are original films too, such as If and supernatural horror mystery The Watchers.

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The Harvard and NYU graduate’s film and TV credits include indie film Houses, the acclaimed documentary series Time: The Kalief Browder Story, and the comedy YouTube series End Time Girls Club

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From winning actors Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, to Billie Eilish’s schoolgirl vibes, Vanessa Hudgens’ baby bump and Ariana Grande’s pink bomb

Christopher Nolan picked up best director and Cillian Murphy best actor, their first Oscars, for the blockbuster about the race to build the atomic bomb. Emma Stone and Hayao Miyazaki were among other winners.

Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the father of the atomic bomb dominates the Oscars, winning the top prize, plus best director for Nolan, best actor and four technical awards. Hayao Miyazaki also wins.

Scattered demonstrations were held near the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and protesters disrupted traffic for some making their way to the awards ceremony on Sunday.

Jimmy Kimmel may be the frontman for this year’s Oscars ceremony, but he had some help from his wife, Molly McNearney, who is executive producing the starry show for the fourth time

Bloodsport is not a great movie but it always entertains. The Hong Kong-set action drama is best known for propelling Belgian martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme into the Hollywood big league.

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Style talks to Chanel’s president of fashion, Bruno Pavlovsky, about the brand’s close relationship with its celebrity ambassadors – and Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s special relationship to French cinema

Anne Hathaway took on an intense exercise regimen to become Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, and lost 25 pounds for her role as Fantine in Les Misérables – 15 of which was thanks to an extreme diet.

Director and actor Julio Torres and co-star Tilda Swinton dive deep into Problemista, a surreal New York saga that sees a toy designer from El Salvador caught up in the US immigration system.

Netflix movie Damsel, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, is an action-packed fantasy in which Millie Bobby Brown – of Stranger Things and Enola Holmes – takes on a fire-breathing dragon.

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Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty after a two-week trial, following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of western film Rust in 2021.

Our 2024 Academy Awards predictions, from why Oppenheimer should and will win best picture, to how Ryan Gosling may be pipped at the post for best supporting actor.

Veteran actor James Hong may be 95 years old, but he’s showing no signs of ageing or slowing down, with more projects in the pipeline and a recent honour at the TCL Chinese Theatre in LA

Few families have produced more male actors than the Culkin clan, with Macaulay, Kieran, Rory, Christian and Shane all starring in Prime Video’s new show The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

If the themes in Dune, about a resource war, climate change and a dying planet, sound familiar, that is because they should – Frank Herbert intended his novel to be a warning, not just a story.

Director Ravi Ajit Chopra is all set to give his Guinness World Record-winning short Cognition the full feature treatment. He talks about working for BBC Films, and his Bollywood dream.

Which iconic actor from the original trilogy comes out on top – and received upwards of US$10 million for a reprised role in the most recent films alone?

Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya return in Denis Villeneuve’s excellent Dune: Part Two, which features amazing set pieces, stunning cinematography and thunderous, moving music.

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Kristen Stewart in lesbian crime flick Love Lies Bleeding, trans tale I Saw the TV Glow, and Min Bahadur Bham’s Himalayan film Shambhala all feature in our picks of the best movies at Berlin 2024.

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Alec Baldwin, a producer and star of the Western film, was charged in January for his role in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

British Board of Film Classification said the Disney film uses colonial term Hottentots, a derogatory word historically used by white Europeans to refer to South Africa’s Khoikhoi people.