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Helen Mirren to receive Golden Globe lifetime achievement award

The multiple Bafta, Emmy, Globe and Oscar-winning actor will receive the film prize in recognition of her ‘transcendent performances and commitment to her craft’

Mediocre movies, millions in taxpayer cash: how scores of films from low-profile UK producer were funded mainly by public money

Creative industries are ‘crucial to the economy’ but film-making and tax have long had an uneasy relationship in Britain

The Marbles review – thoughtful outline of case for giving the Parthenon marbles back to Greece

David Wilkinson’s personal exploration of the issues open-mindedly examines both sides of a contentious political debate

‘I could eat this podium with a fork and knife I’m so angry’: Kristen Stewart blasts neglect of female film-makers

The actor, whose forthcoming directorial debut The Chronology of Water spent eight years in development, said women in the industry should ‘print our own currency’

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz to reunite for new Mummy movie – reports

Fourth in the series will be directed by horror-comedy specialists Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, AKA Radio Silence

Colossal Wreck review – sharp-eyed dispatch from the Kubrickian weirdness of Dubai during Cop28

Josh Appignanesi’s documentary follows the film-maker to the Kubrickian city built on oil money as it hosts the 2023 climate change summit

Odyssey review – estate agents, cocaine and mental collapse in a jagged London thriller

Polly Maberly is riveting as a deluded realtor spiralling out of control in director Gerard Johnson’s messy, blackly comic follow-up to Muscle

Belén review – gripping true story of woman unjustly accused of illegal abortion

In Argentina a lawyer fights to free a working-class woman jailed after the miscarriage of her baby in this heartfelt retelling

‘I thought ‘Bond girl’ was such a demeaning term’: Famke Janssen on acting, ambition and Woody Allen

She came to prominence as a model, before starring as Xenia Onatopp opposite Pierce Brosnan’s 007. Then, instead of pursuing glamorous roles, she got gritty. She discusses sexism, success and why she won’t be stripping off on social media

Diane Ladd obituary

Oscar-nominated actor in Wild at Heart and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

De Niro to JLaw: should celebrities be expected to speak out against Trump?

Trump’s second term has stars calling out the president – but others choose to remain silent, questioning whether it makes any difference

Predator: Badlands review – a pointless but unkillable franchise that has started to eat itself

The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator

‘The left hand is the devil’s hand’: how Shih-Ching Tsou turned childhood trauma into extraordinary drama

When her grandfather warned her not to use her left hand, the director was shocked. Now she’s made an acclaimed film taking aim at this Taiwanese superstition

Three decades later, The Truman Show feels freshly disturbing – and astoundingly prescient

Peter Weir’s dystopian comedy, starring Jim Carrey as the unwitting star of his own reality TV series, takes on new resonance in the techno-capitalist era

‘Handbags at dawn’: Daniel Day-Lewis discusses his method acting conflict with Brian Cox

The triple Oscar-winning actor, who immerses himself in his characters, took issue with Cox’s questioning of Jeremy Strong’s behaviour on the set of Succession

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