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Her Name Was Moviola review – ode to editing machine a geekgasm for analogue fans

One for the historians and tech specialists maybe, but this documentary about the Moviola, used from the 1920s until the 21st century, is a fascinating watch

Amy Poehler: ‘If we want young people to fix everything, why do we make fun of them?’

She’s the voice of Joy in Pixar’s Inside Out 2 – but Poehler has more complicated emotions on her mind. The SNL star talks teen angst and clueless grownups in a non-binary world

Jude Law reveals he turned down playing Superman: ‘It just felt like a step too far’

Actor tells podcast he remembers trying on the costume for the axed 2003 film Flyby before deciding, ‘You can’t do this. You can’t’

Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley join calls for UK creative industries anti-harassment body

Emerald Fennell, Cara Delevingne and Naomie Harris also among 25 signatories asking companies to fund the the Creative Industry Independent Standards Authority

Press junkets are ‘torture’ says Lupita Nyong’o

Black Panther star’s irritation at repeating herself to successive interviewers echoes earlier comments by Cillian Murphy, Tom Hanks and others

Why should Furiosa’s disappointing box office stop a new Mad Max movie?

It will be a real shame if George Miller doesn’t get to make his mooted follow-up, The Wasteland, because of the low takings of such a creatively ambitious and oddball film as Furiosa

‘People are looking to forgive him’: inside Will Smith’s carefully choreographed comeback

Two years after that slap at the Oscars made him persona non grata, the Fresh Prince is making a fresh start with a return to Bad Boys. His rehabilitation seems assured – so long as his films don’t flop

‘This sounded a little fishy’: the dramatic rise and fall of MoviePass

A new documentary looks back at the discount moviegoing subscription model that went from industry disruptor to joke

Furiosa and Garfield fail to save US box office from worst Memorial Day since 1995

US box office revenue is down 36% on last year’s Memorial Day weekend, as the two leading films take only around $30m each

‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’: Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish

The Oscar-winning screenwriter says he has always been gay, but is only now going public. At 81, he reflects on LSD, gurus and falling out with Whoopi Goldberg

Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

‘Paintings are still around, people still go to museums,’ the actor has said, trying to sound positive about the future of cinema. But if you crunch the numbers, this isn’t reassuring

Saturday Night Fever dancefloor to be auctioned with $300,000 estimate

Multicoloured floor is part of sale along with Raiders of the Lost Ark prop prototype and The Big Lebowski costumes

Film-making only for wealthiest as accessible routes disappear, MPs told

Diverse and working-class talent unable to enter industry after cancellation of initiatives and development projects

Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

The maverick director and his trusted company of actors on making Kinds of Kindness, the ‘bonkers’ film causing a stir on the Croisette

‘It felt like a historic moment’: the Hollywood strikes one year on

Last summer’s strikes, as writers and actors took on the studios, led to historic change – but how is the industry faring now?

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