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The good, the bad and the ugly: Clint Eastwood’s interview debacle reveals bleak truths about film journalism

An Austrian newspaper ran an interview with the cinema legend which he denied ever giving. What actually happens in the world of movie reporting can be yet more murky

Will Ferrell to bring Eurovision musical to Broadway

The star is set to turn his 2020 Netflix comedy into a stage show with long-time friend and collaborator Harper Steele

Can dolls really be haunted? And did the infamous Annabelle lead a jailbreak in New Orleans?

The Raggedy Ann doll that inspired three horror films is on tour in the US – and leaving devastation in her wake. Allegedly

Showgirls review – Paul Verhoeven’s kitsch-classic softcore erotic drama is pure bizarreness

A beautiful drifter tries to make it in the strip clubs of Las Vegas in this absurd film – now a cult favourite thanks to its maniacal acting and directing

The Seven Year Itch at 70: a comedy about infidelity ruined by the Hays code

Marilyn Monroe is incandescent in Billy Wilder’s comedy about a tempted married man, but it’s a film hampered by restrictions of the time

‘We were like brothers, but we scrapped’: the chaos and pranks that shaped The Goonies – by its cast and crew

Forty years on, Richard Donner’s adventure movie continues to delight audiences – and its heroes and villains. They remember the thrills they had behind the scenes

The Quatermass Xperiment review – Hammer’s first sci-fi hit is brash, watchable B-movie

A spacecraft crashes back to Earth in an English field in this BBC series spinoff from the soon-to-be-legendary house of horror

Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the war

Austrian newspaper cuts ties with writer over Clint Eastwood ‘exclusive’

Kurier editor says Q&A that was picked up by other outlets contained old quotes from round-table events

Luca Guadagnino set to direct fact-based drama about OpenAI

Challengers director in talks to direct Artificial, film based on behind-the-scenes 2023 drama involving Sam Altman

Blake Lively withdraws two claims about Justin Baldoni

US actor drops claims of infliction of emotional distress related to co-star in It Ends With Us

Masked Israeli troops block media visit to West Bank site of Oscar-winning film

Group of international reporters stopped on way to Masafer Yatta, which features in documentary No Other Land

Walt Disney’s granddaughter denounces animatronic tribute as ‘robotic grampa’

Joanna Miller said her grandfather would hate the mechanical replica to be debuted at Disneyland in July

‘Sometimes he cast spells over them’: the raging beauty of Derek Jarman’s black paintings

From his unfinished film about a murdered director to a stunning series of doomy oil paintings, Derek Jarman’s work could be angry, dark and disturbing – not to mention highly relevant in these bleak times

Bedevil was Australia’s first feature film by an Aboriginal woman. Thirty years on, it’s still pioneering

Tracey Moffatt’s triptych of ghost stories melts time and shifts tone with little warning. It’s unsettling, audacious – and so crazy it works

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