7 h. ago Director Paul Andrew Williams on returning to EIFF with intense new film Dragonfly: ‘Brenda Blethyn was up for anything’

Writer/director Paul Andrew Williams is back at the Edinburgh International Film Festival with a quietly gripping film starring Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn. Interview by Alistair Harkness

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18 h. ago Chiefs’ Travis Kelce admits he ‘slipped a little bit’ given off

Tight end says last two seasons ‘not to my standard’Says off-field acting and hosting drew focus from NFLKC star motivated to ‘show up’ for Chiefs this seasonKansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce is the first to admit that his past two seasons haven’t been up to par. His statistics, while still impressive, back that up when considering the standard Kelce set in his previous seven Pro Bowl seasons.As the world knows, Kelce’s life has been in a brighter spotlight given his highly publicized relationship with Taylor Swift – you’ve likely heard of her – and a slate of off-field ventures. The 35-year-old has hosted Saturday Night Live, landed a role in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, appeared in Happy Gilmore 2 alongside Adam Sandler, and taken on a hosting gig for Amazon’s Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? He also keeps busy with the New Heights podcast he co-hosts with his brother, Jason, where Swift this week announced her new album. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago ‘Marty stop that! You can’t do it!’: Scorsese reveals he toyed with buying a gun to threaten film studio

Proposed edits to his movie Taxi Driver made the director so furious, he threatened to take the law into his own handsOscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese threatened to buy a gun when in a rage at a film studio, according to a new docuseries about his life. After suggested edits to his 1976 movie Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, he flew into such a fury that he began threatening to take the law into his own hands.“Marty was very upset,” says Steven Spielberg. “We get a call at the office: ‘Steve, Steve, it’s Marty. Can you come over to the house? They want me to cut all the blood spurting, they want me to cut the guy who loses his hand.’” Continue reading...

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57 h. ago ‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festivalIn the long history of Hollywood excess, there is no tale as torrid as that of Queen Kelly. This lavish silent melodrama starring Gloria Swanson and directed by Erich von Stroheim will screen as the pre-opening event at this year’s Venice film festival, with a new score by composer Eli Denson. The film is an outlandish saga of illicit love in sordid surroundings – and so is the story of its production.Queen Kelly is set in Europe before the first world war and tells the story of Patricia Kelly (Swanson), a convent girl who falls in love with a prince (British actor Walter Byron) who is engaged to a deranged queen. Patricia is sent away to Tanzania, where she is forced into marriage with a vile character called Jan, later earning the nickname Queen Kelly. It’s a far-fetched tale, whi...

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67 h. ago Director of horror hit Weapons says his Resident Evil film will not be a remake

The new ‘Resident Evil’ adaptation is expected to be released next September

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4 d. ago Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

Locarno film festivalBlue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflementSo here it is – the third but, incredibly, perhaps not the final episode in the most bizarre arthouse franchise in film history, and which, for its sheer melodramatic ker-aziness it commands attention. So, as it were, previously on Mektoub My Love The first film in the series from Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, who had won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour (for which he was famously required to share the award with his two acting leads Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux), arrived in 2017. This first MML (called Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno) turned out to be an epic erotic summer romance set in the early 90s about a guy called Amin (Shaïn Boumedine) who comes back from Paris to his hometown of Sète, having abandoned his medical studies to follow his dream of being a screenwriter, and finds ...

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5 d. ago Paige Spiranac lays bare 'coolest' Happy Gilmore 2 secrets after see

Golfing beauty Paige Spiranac has lifted the lid on the ‘coolest’ Happy Gilmore 2 secrets after her see-through dress outfit at the premiere caused a frenzy

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5 d. ago Happy Gilmore 2 director teams with another comedy icon after dominating Netflix charts

Happy Gilmore 2 director Kyle Newacheck is set to team up with another comedy legend for his next movie after the Netflix sequel became a huge hit with fans

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5 d. ago Happy Gilmore 2 director's next film casts another comedy legend after dominating Netflix chart

Kyle Newacheck, who directed the long-awaited Netflix sequel Happy Gilmore 2, has lined up his next project following the success of the Adam Sandler-starring comedy

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5 d. ago Bad Boys director Michael Bay quits new Will Smith film over creative differences

Filmmaker and Smith were set to reunite for the forthcoming Netflix project

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5 d. ago ‘Horrific’ Netflix true crime documentary that left viewers ‘fuming’ is shooting up the charts

A devastating documentary about a horrific disappearance is shooting up Netflix’s top 10 chart after recently being added to the platform

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5 d. ago Star of Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut threatens legal action over ‘false and seriously defamatory’ Instagram claims

Concerns notice issued to Wilson by lawyers for Charlotte MacInnes joins disputes playing out globally over Pitch Perfect actor’s film, The DebGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnother dispute has been added to the sprawling legal saga surrounding Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut, The Deb, with the film’s lead actor issuing a notice to Wilson threatening legal action against her in Australia.Lawyers representing Charlotte MacInnes issued the concerns notice to Rebel Wilson, indicating their intentions to sue for defamation in Western Australia. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The Rise and Fall of the Clash Redux review – screen encore for punk’s raging heroes

Danny Garcia’s second take on the band’s story looks past their riotous ascent to the gloomier and rather less watchable years that followedHere’s a downbeat, slightly miserable documentary about the Clash, a “redux” in fact by director Danny Garcia of his 2012 film The Rise and Fall of the Clash. Perhaps that earlier version had more to say about how the Clash came raging out of London’s punk scene in the 1970s; this one only really gets going in 1982 when Joe Strummer boots drummer Topper Headon out of the band for heroin addiction, then a year later kicks out guitarist Mick Jones. Rise and Fall Redux is a portrait of the band as a sinking ship, finally disbanding in 1986.It is a film groaning with talking heads. Pick of them is Viv Albertine of the Slits who sums the Clash up nicely when she says: “They were best when they were small and angry when they were hard and angry and poor.” Others indulge in a bit intellectual waffle. The only member of the classic lineup to appear is g...

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7 d. ago ‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza

Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalistIsrael has sought to pursue its campaign of annihilation against Gaza and its people behind closed doors. More than 170 Palestinian journalists have been killed so far, and no outside reporters or cameras are allowed in.The effects of this policy of concealment – which the Guardian managed to pierce this week with a shocking aerial photograph that made the front page – are to ensure that the outside world only catches sight of Gaza’s horrors in small fragments, and to stifle empathy for those trapped inside by hiding them from view, obscuring their humanity. But a new documentary film, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, seeks to open a window to the unfathomable suffering inside Gaza. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jesse Metcalfe, Mitchel Musso, Cocoa Brown, Jeremy London, Mary Antonovich & Jack Wang Cast For College Comedy ‘Mister Fun’

Jesse Metcalfe, Mitchel Musso, Cocoa Brown, Jeremy London, Mary Antonovich & Jack Wang Cast For College Comedy ‘Mister Fun’  Deadline

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7 d. ago Weapons review: 'has a twinkle in its evil eye and a bonkers ending'

This highly anticipated film by the director of Barbarian is another dose of deranged horror with a twinkle in its eye

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7 d. ago Director reveals why Pedro Pascal dropped out of major role in film with 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating

Mystery horror releases in theatres on 8 August

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7 d. ago Francis Ford Coppola in hospital in Rome for ‘scheduled’ procedure

A representative for the Godfather film-maker denied earlier reports that the director had experienced a mild cardiac arrhythmiaFrancis Ford Coppola, the veteran American Italian film-maker behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, underwent a non-emergency medical procedure in Rome, according to his representative, who disputed earlier reports that he had suffered a mild cardiac arrhythmia.“Mr Coppola went in for a scheduled update procedure with acclaimed Dr Andrea Natale, his doctor of over 30 years, and is resting nicely,” the representative said in response to Italian media reports that the director was hospitalised, adding “all is well.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola rushed to hospital in Italy: report

The 86-year-old ‘Godfather’ director had been screening his controversial latest film ‘Megalopolis’

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7 d. ago Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola taken to hospital in Italy for planned procedure

The 86-year-old ‘Godfather’ director had been screening his controversial latest film ‘Megalopolis’

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