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127 Years Later, The Worst Movie of 2025 Butchers a Sci-Fi Literary Classic

Amazon Prime Video scrapes the bottom of the barrel with this baffling, product-stuffed screenlife sci-fi movie.

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I Like What Prime Video's War Of The Worlds Was Going For, Even If It Fails Miserably

The new War of the Worlds is an homage to the greatest version of the story.

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Prime Video’s latest sci-fi reboot bombs with 0% Rotten Tomatoes score

Ice Cube’s film adaptation of War of the Worlds panned as ‘infomercial for Amazon’

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Prime Video incredibly quietly adds new version of sci-fi classic

Ice Cube stars in War of the Worlds

WhatToWatch

This compact camera shot was inspired by Orson Welles – and proves that Benjamin Franklin was wrong

Here’s why this photograph, with its sensation of psychological disconnection, works –and the compact Leica gear behind it

Digital Camera World

Why film and TV creators will still risk it all for the perfect long take shot

In the second episode of Apple TV’s The Studio (2025–) – a sharp satirical take on contemporary Hollywood – newly-appointed studio head Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) visits the set of one of his company’s film productions.

The Conversation

Is Russell F1 2025's low-key hero so far?

There’s another common denominator beyond Lando Norris on the first two grand prix podiums of 2025: George Russell. He was third in both the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix – and yet, as with Orson Welles in The Third Man, the spotlight has flitted over him but briefly before alighting…

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Has Russell's start to F1 2025 been underrated?

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76 Years Later, The Greatest Film Noir Ever Made Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

'The Third Man' is getting a stunning 4K Blu-ray release. Here's your chance to revisit the noir classic.

Inverse

Get Shorty: a madcap, loving spoof of the film biz

Starring John Travolta as a loan shark who lands himself in Hollywood, this noirish satire is pure pastiche. Like its lead, it’s a sucker for the movies

The Guardian - AU

Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Ten films that bend, stretch and play with time, from Citizen Kane to Memento

The festive season can have a strange effect on our perception of time. Days blur together, hours stretch or vanish, and a sense of timelessness sets in. So, what better period to enjoy films that help us to reflect on time itself?

The Conversation

12 actors who admitted they hated other actors’ movies

THE LIST: From Golden Age feuds to a regretful Jedi, Kevin E G Perry reflects on a dirty dozen times actors have risked biting the hand that feeds

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Linford Christie runs for the hills

The athlete swaps the city for quieter climes. Plus: will Eddie Redmayne’s assassin come a cropper as The Day of the Jackal ends? Here’s what to watch this evening

LiveScience

'It's hard not to believe he saw something': Historian Greg Eghigian on how UFOs took over the world

An artist's impression of UFOs appearing over a small town.

The Conversation

The Third Man at 75: how a bombed-out Vienna helped create a gripping post-war thriller

A narrow, dimly lit street, night time, post-war Vienna. American hack novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) is slightly inebriated. He hears someone shuffle in a dark doorway. The countenance of the concealed man is briefly illuminated by an apartment light. It is a man he had presumed dead: his old…

The Guardian - UK

Box Office Poison by Tim Robey review – Hollywood’s fascinating flops

A hilarious account of film’s most stunning failures takes in hubris, stupidity and an assortment of disastrous animals

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The World of Tim Burton review – Johnny Depp’s scissorhands can’t cut through the cobwebs and corpses

The Design Museum, LondonThis world-touring exhibition showcases the kooky, gothy director’s early passions and obsessions – but he’s no Edgar Allan Poe

Marie Claire

The Coolest, Behind-the-Scenes Movie Photos

Including from some of the best films ever made.

The Guardian - UK

Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka

A string of auteur directors – from Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh to Lorenza Mazzetti – have fallen for Kafka’s visionary brilliance, with always-intriguing results

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a deeply addictive train thriller with shades of Bodyguard

Joe Cole stars in Nightsleeper, the BBC’s new adrenalised treat for Sunday nights. Plus, a harrowing look at the civilian cost of the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

His Three Daughters to Peterloo: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon are magnificent and touching as siblings saying goodbye to their dying father, while Mike Leigh’s rage powers his movie about the 1819 massacre

The Times of India

'Star Wars' BTS clip shows how James Earl Jones' menacing voice changed David Prowse's performance as Darth Vader

James Earl Jones, recognized the world over as intergalactic villain Darth Vader, passed away on Monday at the age of 93. The actor, who suffered from diabetes, died at his home surrounded by family members, his agent, Barry McPherson, said in a statement. However, no cause of death was provided.

The Guardian - UK

What we still do in the shadows: why film noir will never die

A Japanese heist, a Bollywood musical, London’s East End – noir has adapted and travelled the world from its 1940s Hollywood beginnings and thanks to a series of festivals and rereleases there are classics to see this autumn

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