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Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all

How did the pioneering director get involved – then fall out – with the 80s’ poppiest band? How are Sam Peckinpah and Michael Jackson’s Thriller involved? Prepare for a tale of ambition, deception and shuttlecock-stuffed shorts

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TV tonight: remembering the Southport attack victims

This overwhelmingly sad documentary focuses on the girls as they were during their short lives. Plus, What’s the Monarchy For? Here’s what to watch this evening

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Steve McQueen losing his cool makes this fast-paced heist flick unmissable

Sharp suits and shoot-outs make this one of the coolest movies of all time

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4 game-changing action movies that redefined shootouts, car chases and fight scenes

Lights, camera... action!

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid just needed Trump

In the court of King Donald, Sam Peckinpah’s flawed 1973 western finally makes sense to me

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Nihilistic, anarchic, repugnant: Sam Peckinpah’s 10 best films – ranked!

The revered but divisive American director, who died in 1984, would have turned 100 this week. We rate his greatest movies, from Straw Dogs to The Wild Bunch

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Kris Kristofferson obituary

Songwriter, singer and actor known for such classic hits as For the Good Times and Me and Bobby McGee

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Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

The actor was the real deal, whether as a cherubic psychopath in Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or playing second fiddle to Barbra Streisand in the smash hit A Star Is Born

The Guardian - UK

Burt Young obituary

Actor who found fame, and an Oscar nomination, as the roguishly endearing Paulie in the 1976 film Rocky

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Burt Young, Oscar-nominated tough guy of the Rocky movies, dies aged 83

Queens-raised actor starred as Paulie, butcher friend to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky

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Strange Way of Life review: Pedro Almodóvar’s 30-minute queer western is a tender miniature

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Strange Way of Life.

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The Magnificent 20: The greatest Western films of all time

From John Ford classics to Sergio Leone gems, these are the best films the genre has to offer, says Graeme Ross

The Independent UK

The Magnificent 20: The greatest Westerns of all time

From John Ford classics to Sergio Leone gems, these are the best films the genre has to offer, says Graeme Ross

The Independent UK

Michael Phillips: The movies’ greatest action scenes, from the silent era to ‘John Wick 4′

With director Chad Stahelski’s massively successful opening week of “John Wick: Chapter 4” dominating a nervous film industry at the moment, the time is right to argue about the movies’ century-plus tradition of action cinema.

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David Warner obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for his 1965 Hamlet at the RSC who went on to have a distinguished film and TV career

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LQ Jones obituary

Character actor best known for war movies and Sam Peckinpah westerns as well as directing the cult B-movie A Boy and His Dog

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Bo Hopkins obituary

Character actor who specialised in a combination of good ol’ boy affability and latent violence

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CW McCall obituary

American advertising executive who had a huge chart hit with the 1975 trucking song Convoy

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'That Dirty Black Bag' adds to TV's Western resurgence

Westerns used to be the surefire money makers in Hollywood. Directors like John Ford, Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone elevated the genre to fine art. But comic book heroes nudged the cowboys off the big screen, and the Hollywood Western rode off into the sunset.

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