20 h. ago 'Unnecessary' The Naked Gun reboot 'ruined' by major mistake from Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson stars in the upcoming The Naked Gun instalment, which serves as the fourth in the franchise, but film fans can't stop criticising one major detail in the trailer

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25 h. ago ‘Dead white men are what I’m legitimately interested in’: film’s foremost podcaster on resurrecting the classics

Karina Longworth, the host of You Must Remember This, on why people patronise Scorsese and Coppola, and her new season of late-career curios by the likes of Minnelli, Wilder and Hitchcock‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So runs the most famous line from John Ford’s elegiac 1962 western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The 44-year-old historian Karina Longworth has other ideas. The former LA Weekly film critic launched her podcast, You Must Remember This, in 2014, setting out to tell “the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century”, as she puts it in the show’s introduction. Its title is lifted from the jazz standard As Time Goes By (“You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss ”) as featured in Casablanca. Hearing that wistful, timeworn lyric, it is easy to overlook the imperative hiding in plain sight. With each fastidiously researched and gloriously entertaining episode, Longworth seems to be telling us: you must remember this. To not do s...

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33 h. ago 'I love JK Rowling' stickers were not a 'transphobic dog whistle', tribunal told

Academics Deirdre O'Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) after its Edinburgh branch said their film Adult Human Female was an attack on transgender identity.

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41 h. ago A Minecraft Movie critics are all saying the same thing about game franchise spin

A Minecraft Movie, which is out in the UK on Friday, is based on the 2011 video game Minecraft and stars the likes of Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Danielle Brooks

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46 h. ago 'I love JK Rowling' stickers put after showing of gender critical film was cancelled at university were not transphobic 'dog whistle', tribunal told

Academics Deirdre O'Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) after its Edinburgh branch said their film Adult Human Female was an attack on transgender identity.

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51 h. ago JK Rowling stickers on campus ‘not a transphobic dog whistle’, tribunal told

Academics Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) over criticism of their film about trans issues.

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3 d. ago More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science.The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Sean Ono Lennon hits out at Rachel Zegler with scathing take down amid Snow White controversy

Sean Ono Lennon publicly criticized Snow White star Rachel Zegler amid backlash over the film. The Disney remake has faced controversy over it casting and political tensions.

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6 d. ago Hugely successful Harry Potter video game expansion cancelled despite making billions

A planned expansion to Hogwarts Legacy, a video game set in the Harry Potter universe, has been cancelled after reportedly selling more than 34 million copies

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7 d. ago Netflix fans only have days to watch Ryan Gosling's 'coolest movie ever'

Ryan Gosling's neo-noir Drive is all set to leave Netflix in the UK on April 9, meaning fans of the actor and the critically-acclaimed film only have a few days left to catch it on the streamer

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1 week ago Musical movie fans say is 'better than Bohemian Rhapsody' is airing on TV tonight

The 2019 film was a hit with both movie buffs and critics around the world

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1 week ago Rachel Zegler's Snow White bombs at box office as fans 'snub' Disney remake

Rachel Zegler has been trying to drum up support for her live action Snow White film despite heavy criticisms about the movie, including by sharing a snap from her childhood showing her dressed as the Disney princess

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1 week ago Amanda Seyfried says marketing team ‘ruined’ Jennifer’s Body

‘Mean Girls’ star criticised promotional campaign for ‘cheapening’ the cult 2009 film by targeting male audiences with sexualised images of her co-star, Megan Fox

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1 week ago As Hollywood's 'wokest' movie Snow White hits box offices today, cinema lovers reveal what they REALLY think of Disney's controversial remake

Film critics have widely panned Disney's Snow White remake as a 'painfully muddle-headed affair' that is 'exhaustingly awful' - and now fans have weighed in with their equally punchy verdicts.

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2 w. ago Karla Sofía Gascón says she is ‘less racist than Gandhi’ on return to public eye

Actor suggests she may have been intentionally smeared but ‘no one has to forgive me’ after recent controversyKarla Sofía Gascón has described herself as “less racist than Gandhi” and insisted “no one has to forgive me for anything” as she returns to the public eye after the emergence of offensive social media posts widely thought to have torpedoed the Oscar hopes of her film Emilia Pérez.The Spanish performer, who became the first transgender woman to be nominated for a best actress Oscar, was dropped from the film’s campaigning materials by its studio, Netflix, and criticised by colleagues and prominent politicians after the series of old racist and Islamophobic tweets came to light. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Creepy' Snow White Disney change slammed in reviews as remake is tipped for brutal award

Disney's latest live-action remake saw the iconic 1937 film Snow White come to life, but critics have slammed a number of factors in the productions, while bookies have tipped it to flop

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2 w. ago US universities face choice to surrender or fight back against Trump’s takeover

‘Extraordinary fear’ takes hold at universities as Trump campaign threatens investigations or loss of federal fundsThe Trump administration’s unprecedented pressure campaign on American higher education – which is forcing major universities to bow to its demands or risk investigations and the loss of millions of dollars in federal money – is so far facing little pushback from the schools affected.That campaign escalated earlier this month, when the US government cancelled $400m in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University. In a subsequent letter, representatives of three federal agencies said they would reconsider that freeze only if Columbia agreed to conditions including more aggressively disciplining students who engage in pro-Palestinian disruptions, planning “comprehensive” reform of the school’s admissions policies, and placing one of school’s area studies departments under “academic receivership” – meaning under the control of an outside chair. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Critics give mixed reaction to Snow White, calling remake ‘awful and enchanting’

The Disney movie is a remake of the popular 1930s animated film Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

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2 w. ago JK Rowling appears to criticise Harry Potter’s three stars amid feud

In response to a social media post asking who ‘ruins a movie for you’, the author alluded to Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, with whom she has fallen out over trans rightsHarry Potter author JK Rowling appears to have criticised the three leading actors of the eight-film franchise in a post on social media.Rowling was responding to a post that asked: “What actor/actress instantly ruins a movie for you?” She wrote: “Three guesses. Sorry, but that was irresistible,” adding three laughing emojis. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ridley Scott's 'best ever film' nobody remembers finally available on Amazon Prime

The Last Duel has been dubbed Ridley Scott's 'best film in years' by critics, with some even comparing it to Gladiator, despite the fact that almost no one has seen it

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