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<p>Filmmaker Alex Cox introduces an edition of BBC Two’s cult film strand ‘Moviedrome’</p>

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The cult BBC film strand Moviedrome changed how Britain watched movies

Made to feel like recommendations shared with you by a mate down the pub, ‘Moviedrome’ – which broadcast cinema’s wildest, strangest films – left late-night BBC Two audiences spellbound on Sunday nights from 1988 to 2000. As it inspires a season of screenings at London’s BFI, Alex Deller reminisces with its creators

<p>Sam Neill as Alan Grant, the reluctant Indiana Jones o<a href="/topic/indiana-jones"></a>f palaeontology, in ‘Jurassic Park III’</p>

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Time has proven Jurassic Park III to be the best dino-sequel

<p>An extreme close-up of Telly and a 12-year-old girl making out, mouths grimly colliding, opens the film</p>

Inside Film

Thirty years later, Kids still has the power to disgust

<p>The website is now home to 17 million users</p>

Letterboxd is the Gen Z fad that might just save cinema

Inside Film

<p>Misunderstood: Ryan O’Neal in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’</p>

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

<p>Bat’s enough out of you: Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy in ‘Batman Begins’</p>

Inside Film

How Batman Begins made a giant of Christopher Nolan and changed cinema

Twenty years on from the landmark blockbuster, starring Christian Bale as the Dark Knight, there’s no understating its influence. Louis Chilton looks at the making and legacy of a superhero film quite like none before it

Reviews

<p>Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’</p>

David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is more than just a thriller

<p>Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s ‘Hot Milk’</p>

Emma Mackey is exceptional in the surreal and sapphic drama Hot Milk

Interviews

<p>‘When those moments arrive where your control is threatened, I can spot it now much earlier and steer it away as politely as I can. Or if I have to be rude, I’ll be rude’</p>

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Danny Boyle: ‘Britain’s on the decline – whether we like it or not’

<p>‘I’m there on this rope, thinking... I studied the classics! I wanted to do Chekhov! How did I get here?’</p>

INTERVIEW

Gina Gershon: ‘I have a lot of PTSD from Showgirls’

<p>‘It’s been 21 years of my life that I have not had my father in it. And it’s a pain that I don’t ever express’</p>

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Barbie Ferreira: ‘We all have daddy issues – literally everyone’

Filmmaker Hudson is releasing her first fiction feature

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From homelessness to filmmaking: Daisy-May Hudson on her film Lollipop

<p>‘I live a totally normal life – partly because I’m a shut-in and don’t leave the house that much’</p>

Interview

Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I would walk around Disney reading about death’

<p>Tim Key: ‘When I was a kid, I used to support Liverpool fanatically… then I realised that I’d never been to Liverpool’</p>

Interview

Tim Key: ‘Filming Alan Partridge, I was living in a lot of fear’

Jackie Chan: ‘Karate Kid: Legends is not too violent. In this movie, when you fight, it’s like dancing’

Interview

Jackie Chan at 71: ‘Jump off a building? I need a stunt double now’

<p>Matthew Rhys: ‘A plastic surgeon took one look at me and knew I was Celtic’</p>

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Matthew Rhys: ‘I would have tried to play James Bond as a Welshman’

Features

<p>Ralph Fiennes in ‘28 Years Later’</p>

28 Years Later’s twist is scandalous and utterly fascinating

<p>George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s ‘Femme’</p>

In Focus

How a violent drag queen thriller became too controversial for Britain

<p>'Love Letters' and 'Sentimental Value'</p>

Cannes 2025

The 8 best movies we saw at Cannes Film Festival 2025

<p>Zoom in for detail: Benicio Del Toro soaks up the scenery in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

Inside the obsessive, compulsive making of a Wes Anderson set

Flashbacks

<p>An indispensable, delightful – and nostalgic – piece of Bond’s hallowed history: Roger Moore and Grace Jones in ‘A View to a Kill’</p>

A View to a Kill doesn’t deserve its reputation as the worst ever Bond

<p>Romantic euphoria: Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in ‘Pride & Prejudice’</p>

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How 2005’s Pride & Prejudice became the ultimate 21st-century romcom

<p>Scream queen: Tina Turner reportedly beat out David Bowie and Mick Jagger to play the film’s Acid Queen</p>

Features

Baked beans, Tina Turner and Elton John on stilts: The story behind Tommy

<p>Sink or swim: Leonardo DiCaprio in Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’</p>

How The Beach nearly sank Leonardo DiCaprio (and upset Ewan McGregor)

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