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COMMENT
Charlize Theron’s remarks reveal a depressing truth about action films
The ‘Mad Max’ star has spoken about the reluctance among film studios to make action films with female leads. When you dig into the state of the modern box office, it’s clear she’s onto something, writes Louis Chilton
Inside Film
Inside Film
Thirty years later, Kids still has the power to disgust
Audiences, critics and politicians the world over were horrified by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s dramatisation of wayward Manhattan youth. Three decades on, writes Adam White, its provocations remain jolting – and desperate
INSIDE FILM
Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his ultimate masterpiece
Critically lambasted on its release, 1975’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ has only been embraced – then even more embraced – in the decades since. As it arrives back in cinemas, Xan Brooks salutes an often misunderstood classic
