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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 made

Trump’s talk of film tariffs makes no sense, but it’s already doing damage – to Hollywood

The US president’s bizarre talk of 100% levies on films from ‘foreign countries’ combines trolling with a hazy grasp of facts

Seeking Mavis Beacon review – tracking a Black female tech icon, who didn’t exist

Documentary investigates the whereabouts of the model who played an influential corporate character, as well as the relationship between race and technology

The Extraordinary Miss Flower review – secret life exposed through treasure trove of love letters

Nick Cave and Richard Ayoade are among those reading out the posthumously discovered missives that inspired an album by Emilíana Torrini, who soundtracks this gorgeous film

‘It’s the misogyny slop ecosystem!’ How Candace Owens and the American right declared war on Blake Lively

Remember Johnny Depp v Amber Heard? If you thought that was ugly, wait till you see Blake Lively v Justin Baldoni. As the stars of It Ends With Us swap lawsuits over claims of sexual harassment, the conservative media has picked its side – and it’s not pulling any punches

Trump officials halt billions in fresh Harvard grants unless university bows to demands – as it happened

Education secretary Linda McMahon informs university president Alan Garber of news in deeply partisan letter

Trump called for 100% tariff on foreign films a day after Jon Voight proposed ‘limited’ tariffs

Actor was assigned by Trump to come up with a plan to save Hollywood, but his proposal only included tariffs ‘in certain limited circumstances’

Trump White House says ‘no final decisions’ on foreign film tariffs

Officials say administration ‘exploring all options’ after president declared 100% tariff on non-US-produced films

US media stocks slide on Wall Street after Trump threatens movie tariffs

Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount shares fall as studios reel from announcement

Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry, ministers told

Union warns that 100% levy could be ‘knockout blow’ and urges government to defend sector and those who work in it

Trump’s attack on the film industry is a sign of xenophobic contempt

By insisting tariffs on films at least partly produced outside the US, the president is trying to limit the important worldview of cinema

Trump’s movie tariffs are designed to destroy the international film industry

Vague and grandstanding as the US president’s messaging may be, it has serious ramifications which could wipe out large sections of the film business

Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

Set in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, Nick Cheung’s film follows a loose-cannon psychiatrist through a city deranged by stock-market storms

The Empire Strips Back review – Chewie gets jiggy in galactic burlesque parody

Humour abounds in this Star Wars-themed cabaret, as Boba Fett bumps and grinds while Han Solo and Chewbacca share a Backstreet Boys number

It Feeds review – spooky supernatural chiller that loads up on tasty jump-scares

A psychic psychiatrist perceives a wraith latching on to people in this neatly-realised, if somewhat familiar, beastie-horror

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