11 h. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash review – James Cameron takes 3D cinema to a spectacularly wild dimension

James Cameron, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña are back with a $400-billion epic that will leave your mind blown

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11 h. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense

The third Avatar chapter erupts with volcanic world-building and thunderous action yet remains a vast, dazzling spectacle in search of an emotional arcOn and on and on it goes. The planet-sized movie franchise of Avatar continues to spin massively in the cosmos – yet without affecting the tides in any other world. Maybe Avatar is the cosmos and its originator James Cameron is the new L Ron Hubbard; the creator, or rather prophet, of a new belief system involving big blue creatures with pointy ears that flap and twitch when they talk, to whom we will all one day be required to bow down when they float past. And while the rest of the cinema industry has quietly abandoned 3D without ever quite admitting it, theatres showing James Cameron’s giant new three-hour hunk of nonsense are still handing out the 3D specs to the customers.The first film was about human invaders seeking to exploit and colonise the weird tall blue Na’vi people in another galaxy for their mineral resources by piloti...

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11 h. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash review – More of the same, and it’s starting to feel boring

James Cameron’s blue epic remains visually impressive, but it’s frustrating how little he gives his actors to do

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16 h. ago James Cameron joins exclusive club of billionaire film directors – and still has another Avatar release to come

His forthcoming Avatar instalment is already projected to make at least $200m at the box office

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18 h. ago Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original

The Indigenous Canadian author brilliantly captures the interdependence of humans and the natural world, in a darkly satirical critique of colonialismNoopiming, the first of Canadian writer-musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s books to be published in the UK, means “in the bush” in the language of the Ojibwe people. The title of this startlingly original fiction is an ironic reference to Roughing It in the Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada, an 1852 memoir about “the civilisation of barbarous countries” by Susanna Moodie – Simpson’s eponymous “white lady” – a Briton who settled in the 1830s on the north shore of Lake Ontario, where Simpson’s ancestors resided and she now lives.That 19th-century settlers’ guidebook went on to be hailed as the origin of Canadian women’s writing; Margaret Atwood adopted the Suffolk-born frontierswoman’s voice in her 1970 poetry collection, The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Though she mentions Moodie’s book only in an afterword, Simpson’s perspective is di...

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30 h. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere in Australia canceled ‘out of deep respect’ for Bondi Beach victims

Event was expected to include a junket featuring director James Cameron and the movie’s star Sam Worthington

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4 d. ago Sigourney Weaver Wore Maison Margiela Artisanal To The ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ London Premiere

Sigourney Weaver Wore Maison Margiela Artisanal To The ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ London Premiere  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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4 d. ago Sigourney Weaver cuts a sophisticated figure in a black velvet dress as she joins co

Sigourney Weaver cuts a sophisticated figure in a black velvet dress as she joins co-stars Stephen Lang and Oona Chaplin for the Avatar: Fire And Ash London premiere  Daily Mail

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4 d. ago Giant Avatar sculpture lights up London's Thames ahead of Fire and Ash premiere

Fans will instantly recognise the 'A' emblem from the blockbuster films

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4 d. ago My honest review of London's cheapest hotel room that starts from £30 a night

My honest review of London's cheapest hotel room that starts from £30 a night  Metro.co.uk

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5 d. ago Strictly's Katya Jones poses up a storm in tight leather trousers at the Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere

Pro dancer Katya Jones posed up a storm in tight leather trousers at the Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere in London on Thursday night - after being voted off Strictly last week.

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5 d. ago Burning Avatar sculpture lights up Thames as franchise returns to screen

A fire sculpture inspired by the Avatar films marked the arrival of the franchise’s latest blockbuster, Avatar: Fire and Ash

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7 d. ago All hail Avatar! How event movies are trying to bring back the box office blockbuster

Ahead of James Cameron’s latest Avatar sequel hitting the big screen, we look at how studios aim for ‘theatricality’ to get streaming film fans from sofa to cinemaIf anyone still knows how to fill a movie theatre, it’s James Cameron. Having broken the all-time worldwide box office record in 1997 with Titanic and again 12 years later with Avatar, his work is the acme of big-screen spectacle.His latest offering, Avatar: Fire and Ash, arrives in radically different circumstances. With several years now between us and the pandemic, it is clear that theatrical box office is likely not coming back to what it was: US total box office for 2025 currently stands at $7.6bn (down from $11.3bn in 2019); the worldwide haul is expected to be around $34.1bn, a 13% drop from pre-Covid times. All the more onus on Cameron’s hypertrophic Smurfs to bring in the box office cavalry at year’s end. And hopefully supply some further indications about the magic elixir needed to break the Netflix’n’chill stran...

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8 d. ago Sigourney Weaver shares why Avatar: Fire and Ash is ‘the best job I’ve ever had’

The 76-year-old actor plays a 14-year-old character named Kiri in the sci-fi franchise

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1 week ago Zoe Saldaña looks effortlessly chic in a black gown as she joins her co

The actress, 47, who plays the lead heroine Neytiri, stunned as she stepped out in a floor-length dress featuring a dramatic black, structured bodice.

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1 week ago Zoe Saldaña makes surprising confession about her kids’ moviegoing habits

The actor spoke about her three children at the recent Los Angeles premiere of ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’

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1 week ago Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but their choices betray yearning for a world that has disappearedHollywood has stopped betting on original ideas. Sequels and remakes dominate the box office. Among this year’s Christmas movie releases are Zootropolis 2 (the first Zootropolis came out in 2016), Avatar: Fire and Ash (third in a series that began in 2009), and Wicked: For Good (part two of the adaptation of a musical that premiered in 2003).New stories are risky. It is safer to retell old ones. British politics feels similarly afflicted by paralysis of the imagination, intimidated by change, stuck in a narrative loop.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash collects early rave reviews as James Cameron warns third movie has ‘Titanic

The third installment will hit theaters December 19

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2 w. ago Miley Cyrus sparks engagement rumours as she attends Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere with boyfriend Maxx Morando

The hitmaker and Morando, 27, made a rare red carpet appearance at the Avatar: Fire and Ash launch on Monday

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2 w. ago James Cameron says he has a plan if Avatar: Fire and Ash doesn’t make enough money

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is slated for release in December

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