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<p>‘I learnt about classism from a very young age – that my circumstances weren’t good enough for some people’</p>

Interview

Hilary Swank: ‘I take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

The ‘Million Dollar Baby’ star defied the odds to become a double Oscar winner. She speaks to Annabel Nugent about her personal connection to her new heart-wrenching film, the tough lessons she learnt playing a young transgender man in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ – and the newfound joys of motherhood

<p>Desk becomes her: Daisy Ridley as office worker Fran in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying'</p>

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Has Daisy Ridley beaten the Star Wars curse?

<p>A new kind of horror: the found footage movie inspired a uniquely frightening experience, different from the gruesome gore the genre had become accustomed to </p>

How The Blair Witch Project shook the world and changed horror forever

<p>‘There’s been no normal relationship since the shoot. Johnny Depp is in another world’ </p>

Interview

Maïwenn on directing Johnny Depp’s comeback: ‘The crew were afraid’

Inside Film

<p>‘Women in Love’ stars left to right: Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden and Eleanor Bron</p>

Why Women in Love is one of Britain’s most misunderstood masterpieces

A newly restored version of the 1969 romantic drama arrives at the BFI this week. Geoffrey Macnab looks back at a film that was as profound as it was provocative, by a maverick director who was never given his due...

<p>No country for gold men: Margaret Nolan and Sean Connery in ‘Goldfinger’</p>

Sexism, xenophobia and a real-life Nazi: The tarnished legacy of Goldfinger at 60

The James Bond franchise has never been more purely pleasurable than the 1964 Sean Connery classic, writes Geoffrey Macnab. But the film’s myriad controversies have only worsened with age

Reviews

<p>Kenergy: Ryan Gosling in ‘The Fall Guy’ </p>

Ryan Gosling is a screwball delight in the stunt spectacle The Fall Guy

<p>Movie star: Zendaya in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’ </p>

The Zendaya drama Challengers is thrilling and extravagantly sexy

Interviews

<p>‘In those moments, you’re so heated up’ – Tatiana Maslany reflects on calling Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘out of touch’ </p>

Interview

She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany on Marvel, Mark Ruffalo and child acting

<p>Billie Piper stars in ‘Scoop’, about the BBC’s quest to interview Prince Andrew: ‘I realised, Oh my God, there are these unsung women behind the story’ </p>

Interview

Scoop’s Billie Piper: ‘Any abuse of power makes me feel sick and furious’

<p>‘I have a soapbox to stand on and something worth saying’ </p>

Interview

Olivia Williams on playing Queen Camilla and her ‘harrowing’ time on Friends

<p>‘We’ve seen the celebration of being gay, of gay marriage, of having children and all of those wonderful things, but not so much the splitting up’ </p>

Interview

Luke Evans on fashion, marriage and body image: ‘I wasn’t pretty or flawless – I looked like a bloke’

<p>Ernie Hudson: ‘We can say it’s a racial thing, but I think if Eddie Murphy had played the role I played, he would have been paid very well’ </p>

Interview

Ernie Hudson on the new Ghostbusters sequel and the ‘disappointing’ 2016 reboot

<p>‘The most important thing for me in my career was to have arrived playing someone like that – a free woman’</p>

Interview

The White Lotus’s Simona Tabasco on fame, sex scenes and being buried alive for her new film

<p>Scream queen: Caroline Munro in the classic Hammer horror film ‘Dracula AD 1972’ </p>

Interview

Hammer Horror icon Caroline Munro on sex, violence and 007

<p>Viswanathan: ‘I have such a baby face... you can dress me up, dress me down, do whatever you want’</p>

Interview

Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan wants to be your next romcom queen

Features

<p>‘There was no way I was going to get into anything that was scandal-based or disrespectful’: Marisa Abela and Jack O’Connell as Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in ‘Back to Black’ </p>

‘Approval from the family? That wouldn’t work for me’: Inside the making of Back to Black

<p>Hinata Hiiragi and Sōya Kurokawa in the award-winning Japanese drama ‘Monster’</p>

Inside Monster, the groundbreaking new film exploring queer childhood

<p>The title screen for the cult 1992 video game ‘Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis’</p>

How a revolutionary video game rescued Dune from obscurity

<p>Smiling evil: Sandra Hüller as Hedwig in ‘The Zone of Interest’</p>

The stars of The Zone of Interest on the making of a radical Holocaust film

Comment

<p>Dark side of the moon: Sofia Boutella portrays the troubled rebel Kora </p>

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Rebel Moon is a Star Wars rip-off that breaks George Lucas’s rules

<p>Don’t call it a comeback: Mel Gibson in ‘The Beaver’, Johnny Depp in ‘Jeanne du Barry’ and Lindsay Lohan in ‘The Canyons’ </p>

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Johnny Depp and the rich history of the shambolic comeback film

<p>Once upon a time in southern France: Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023</p>

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘10 films’ rule will ultimately damage his legacy

<p>Bored, games: Margot Robbie has announced she is developing a film adaptation of Monopoly</p>

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Margot Robbie’s Monopoly movie is a very depressing idea

Flashbacks

<p>Gorgeous, willowy and insouciant: Anna May Wong in ‘Island of Lost Men’ </p>

Features

Anna May Wong and the mystery of Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star

<p>Nineties greats: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair lead the cast of ‘Cruel Intentions’</p>

How Cruel Intentions compiled the best soundtrack in teen movie history

<p>Lead duo Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, neither of whom were the first choice for their roles </p>

Blazing Saddles at 50: The story of the wackiest western ever made

<p>Fond of your face: Bridget Fonda at a premiere in 1999, and in films ‘Single White Female’, ‘Scandal’ and ‘Jackie Brown’</p>

Bridget Fonda at 60: the Nineties great who vanished without a trace

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