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Moving tributes flood in for the late, great Leonard Cohen

By David Jenkins

Movie folk have taken to Twitter to express fondness for the Canadian poet.

The Rule Book – Bridge of Spies and the shifting Constitutional battleground

By Sam Adams

Steven Spielberg’s spy drama is an important reminder that being American is not a matter of where you were born but what you believe.

Now is the time to watch Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” speech

By David Jenkins

The one-time Democratic president’s message is well worth revisiting in our troubled political times.

Has Luc Besson remade The Fifth Element?

By Little White Lies

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets gets a trailer, and it looks like bubble gum sci-fi fun.

Why is TV so reluctant to embrace body diversity?

By Roxanne Sancto

Orange is the New Black and Girls are rare examples of shows which seek to normalise diverse body types.

Watch Rachel Weisz defend history in courtroom drama Denial

By Caroline Middleton

Holocaust denial is a matter for the courts in this true-life legal drama.

Film directors react to Trumpageddon

By Little White Lies

As the world is transformed into a sickening hellscape, the great and good of moviedom give their two cents.

Robert De Niro returns to his gangster roots for the small screen

By Rebecca Speare-Cole

David O Russell will write and direct a new TV series co-starring Julianne Moore.

Election Day Special: Little White Lies enters the House of Cards

By Little White Lies

Want to see this election cycle’s coolest deck of playing cards?

Bryan Singer’s Freddie Mercury biopic finally has its lead

By Rebecca Speare-Cole

Mr Robot star Rami Malek will play the Queen frontman in the upcoming Bohemian Rhapsody.

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Young Pope provides a test for millennial atheists

By Jamie Mackay

The director’s Jude Law-starring drama shows the seductive power of religion in uncertain times.

How cinema is rewriting the Middle East narrative

By Matt Turner

Filmmakers from across the region are challenging perceptions through intimate, personal storytelling.

Jóhann Jóhannsson tells the story of his favourite film scores

By Greg Noone

The Icelandic composer has reunited with Denis Villeneuve for Arrival.

Personal tragedy and trauma in the films of Denis Villeneuve

By William Carroll

The Canadian director’s latest, Arrival, explores intimate themes present in his earlier work.

How to rig an election (according to the movies)

By Nick Chen

From subliminal messaging to phoney wars, here’s how to screw over your political rival, Hollywood style.

Mike Drop – How Channing Tatum and President Obama redrew the template for masculinity

By Simran Hans

Simran Hans considers the link between two of America’s most prominent and progressive leading men.

A classic epic made to play on three screens returns

By David Jenkins

Abel Gance’s staggering, five-and-a-half hour biography of Napoleon is heading to cinemas and Blu-ray.

Why Demon Seed is the perfect companion piece to Black Mirror

By Lauren Thompson

Before Charlie Brooker’s dark social satire, there was Donald Cammell’s technophobic sci-fi.

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