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<p>‘Everything goes big: the hair, the costumes, the ripple effect of her mere presence in a movie’: Blake Lively at the London premiere of ‘Another Simple Favor’ last month</p>

Inside Film

Amid volatile headlines, Blake Lively’s future in movies is unclear

The litigious back-and-forth between the ‘Gossip Girl’ star and Justin Baldoni, who directed her in the cursed weepie ‘It Ends with Us’, has largely eclipsed her acting career since 2024, with her new film ‘Another Simple Favor’ currently caught in the crossfire. Where does she go from here, asks Adam White

<p>The winter soldier: Sebastian Stan in ‘Thunderbolts*’</p>

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How Thunderbolts’ Sebastian Stan became Marvel’s MVP

<p>The man, the myth: Nicolas Cage in ‘The Surfer’</p>

inside film

Nicolas Cage has spent years playing himself – but the best actors do

<p>‘It’s fun to do my own stunts. The aches and the pains feel like part and parcel’</p>

Interview

Daisy Ridley: ‘The fact is, all actors are mainly known for one thing’

Inside Film

<p>Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘The Basketball Diaries’</p>

Inside Film

How Leonardo DiCaprio started – then abandoned – his ‘bad boy’ era

Thirty years ago, the ascendent star gave his image a shake-up with roles in the provocative ‘Basketball Diaries’ and Woody Allen’s ‘Celebrity’. Louis Chilton looks back at DiCaprio’s decision to break bad – and the reason it didn’t work

<p>Leni Riefenstahl shrinks from the camera in a startling new documentary from Andres Veiel</p>

Inside Film

Riefenstahl proves that the best documentary subjects are monsters

The Nazi propagandist is seen in a startling new film repeatedly refusing to talk about her relationship with Hitler – and it’s the kind of upset that has always fuelled cinema’s very best documentaries, writes Xan Brooks

Reviews

<p>Gunslinger: Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’</p>

Watching Alec Baldwin’s fateful western Rust is a miserable experience

<p>A delightful creation: Blake Lively in ‘Another Simple Favour’</p>

Blake Lively delights in the otherwise silly Another Simple Favour

Interviews

<p>‘Right now I really need to think about what kinds of movies I’ll make going forward’</p>

Interview

Steven Soderbergh: ‘Erin Brockovich wouldn’t get made today… unless you get Timothée Chalamet’

<p>‘In the realm of acting, you do believe what you’re feeling, every single step. But it doesn’t mean that you are lovers outside of it’</p>

Interview

Juliette Binoche on reuniting with Ralph Fiennes: ‘I know his desires. I know his dark sides’

<p>‘The burden is definitely not lost on me – the gumption of some English lad turned up to play the quintessential Welsh hero’</p>

Interview

Harry Lawtey on playing Richard Burton: ‘He didn’t think acting was a manly thing to do’

<p>‘You can see so many sex scenes on your telephone today, so sex naturally felt more transgressive 20 years ago’</p>

Interview

François Ozon: ‘I was a very perverse child – I loved the idea of my aunt trying to kill us all’

<p>‘Opus isn’t necessarily that different from reality – I mean, the world is pretty insane’</p>

Interview

Murray Bartlett: ‘I looked down on soaps – and really regretted it’

<p>Carrie-Anne Moss: ‘Not only am I drawn to genre films, but they are drawn to me’</p>

Interview

Carrie-Anne Moss: ‘I cried and cried… my heart hadn’t got tough yet’

Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’

Interview

Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’

<p>‘It’s hard to be a child performer, to get out there and do the banana dance over and over and over again. It can be joyful while it can also be dehumanising’</p>

Interview

Keke Palmer: ‘I was a child entertainer making more money than my parents – it was crazy’

Features

<p>(Not) starring in a blockbuster coming to a cinema near you: Paul Mescal, Mikey Madison and Jacob Elordi</p>

Comment

Hollywood’s new A-list are rejecting superheroes and Star Wars – I don’t blame them

<p>Steve Coogan (and penguin) in his new film ‘The Penguin Lessons’</p>

Steve Coogan on his strange new film about fascism – and a penguin

<p>Pedro Pascal is currently one of the buzziest actors around</p>

Comment

Pedro Pascal’s rapid rise is about to either make or break him

<p>‘I had been deemed difficult and alienated the head of every major studio’: Val Kilmer in 1993</p>

Tribute

Val Kilmer was incredibly difficult to work with – but he was worth it

Flashbacks

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

flashbacks

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)

<p>Merry X-mas: Sarah Polley, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr and Katie Holmes in the cult classic ‘Go’ </p>

Features

Go at 25: The making of the coolest Christmas movie of all time

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