4 d. ago Crash at 20: is it the worst best picture winner of all time?

Paul Haggis’s interconnected drama about racism in Los Angeles remains one of the most embarrassing Oscar decisions ever madeIt doesn’t take long for Paul Haggis’s Crash to end up on the shortest of shortlists for the worst film ever to win best picture at the Oscars, maybe the single worst in the color era since 1954’s Around the World in 80 Days. At the time, it was a dark-horse favorite to upset the widely acclaimed Brokeback Mountain, premiering a full year earlier at the Toronto film festival before riding an unexpected cultural wave to awards-season glory. Now 20 years later, it feels like a “you had to be there” moment that’s hard to explain, because the movie itself is so obviously rancid that it suggests few answers on its own. The job is probably better suited to cultural anthropologists than film critics.Nonetheless, Haggis’s ensemble piece about racial animus in Los Angeles seems to have struck a chord with, well, the many Academy voters from Los Angeles who reside in th...

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1 week ago ‘I stopped talking to my parents – and life opened up’: Heather Graham on family, ageing and ‘creepy’ film

The actor has seen the best and worst of Hollywood, from directors like Paul Thomas Anderson to the notorious Harvey Weinstein. She talks about her #MeToo moment, her difficult childhood and her new movie, Chosen FamilyFor almost all her life, Heather Graham says, she was a “people pleaser”. It was encouraged in childhood, she says, this obligation to put others’ needs above her own, and it endured even after the 1997 film Boogie Nights had made her a star and she had severed all contact with her “judgmental, authoritarian” parents.Now 55, Graham was in her 40s before she recognised her self-sabotaging tendencies, and tried to correct course. “I realised, no, actually I can just ask myself, ‘What do I want?’ and make myself happy,” she says over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles. “I wish I could have had this when I was 20 or 15. If I wasn’t trying to please other people, what would I have done?” It affected her romantic life and sometimes her work. “There were moments where I feel ...

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1 week ago David Tennant leaves The Assembly viewers 'in tears' after moving moment

David Tennant was the latest star to take part in the new season of ITV's The Assembly on Sunday, with the actor becoming emotional over a rendition of Sunshine on Leith

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2 w. ago Chaos erupts during Minecraft Movie screening in Welsh cinema after 'chicken jockey!' moment

Three teenagers were thrown out of a Welsh cinema for participating in a viral, and disruptive, internet trend, and reportedly banned from returning

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2 w. ago LEGO set based on iconic Minecraft movie moment drops to £29 at Argos with offer

The LEGO set is based on the 'Chicken Jockey' meme from the Minecraft movie that's taken over the internet.

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2 w. ago Princess Diaries fans just noticing 'secret blooper' Anne Hathaway made in film

Anne Hathaway starred as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries, 2001 but there is one scene that includes an unplanned moment which ended up featuring in the movie

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2 w. ago Bombshell new Titanic book uncovers chilling true story of Captain's final moments that weren't in the movie... it changes everything

Millions of movie-goers have watched Captain Edward John Smith die a hero. But is that the truth? A new book from Dan E. Parkes details eyewitness accounts of the ill-fated Titanic and its commander.

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2 w. ago BGT audience member makes show history in 'knockout movie moment'

Amanda Holden is blown away by singer Max Fox in tonight's show and praises his gutsy performance

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3 w. ago What is the Minecraft Chicken Jockey craze? Viral meme explained as film sweeps cinemas

Wondering why your kid keeps talking about a Chicken Jockey? We're here to help you decipher the chaos surrounding The Minecraft Movie's most boisterous viral moment

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4 w. ago What is 'chicken jockey' in A Minecraft Movie? Fan favourite moment explained

Some audience members have been kicked out for their behaviour in response to the viral scene

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