Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn re-team for an emotionally breathtaking, aesthetically brilliant and immensely violent thriller set amongst US expatriates in BangkokIt may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position. Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set...

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Shortly before Jason Bateman landed the lead role of Michael Bluth on Arrested Development in 2003 h[...]

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With “Man of Steel,” Zack Snyder aims to make Superman relevant again.

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JC Chandor’s remarkable second feature (after 2011’s Margin Call) is a story of a man lost at sea. There is only one actor (Robert Redford as the sailor) and no dialogue at all outside the short voice-over at the beginning of the film and the expletive that Redford yells in the depths of his despair.

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At Cannes, an appreciative audience takes in “Behind the Candelabra,” the HBO Liberace biopic.

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Steven Soderbergh's biopic of the pianist is a bizarre anti-Pinocchio parable in which toxic love transforms a handsome young man into a deeply unhappy latex dollAfter , supposedly his final work for the cinema, Steven Soderbergh has now apparently performed his post-swansong. Behind the Candelabra was commissioned for HBO television but is shown here in the Cannes festival competition as a...

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Paul Wright tells Henry Barnes about his first feature, For Those In Peril, which is in the Critics' Week strand of this year's Cannes film festival

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Matt Damon took quite a pledge in February Until everyone has access to clean water and sanitation h[...]

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A small independent cinema serving film-lovers in north CornwallThis week's Cine-files is from Lee Curtis, a West Country-born, freelance journalist currently based in north Cornwall. A Falmouth University film graduate and regular contributor to Big Screen magazine, West Briton and Sabotage Times. Follow him on Twitter . If there's a cinema you'd like to tell us about for a future Cine-files,...

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Last week the power shifted completely to viewers of The Voice whose votes eliminated Vedo and Garre[...]

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