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James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who inspired both love and respect | Film

James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was a massively accomplished and distinguished African American star of the stage and screen, an...

‘I’ve failed, badly – and I’m good with it’: James McAvoy on class, comfort and carnage | Film

He is a funny character, James McAvoy. I meet him in one of those fancy Soho hotels where the cast of films that...

Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked! | Keanu Reeves

20. Little Buddha (1993)Bernardo Bertolucci, deep into his picturesque international film-making phase, portrays the search for a reincarnated lama to insipid effect. But...

LL Cool J: ‘Hip-hop isn’t underdog music any more’ | LL Cool J

Do you think hip-hop still has the cultural impact it once did when you first arrived on the scene during the Def Jam...

‘A goalkeeper vomited over my typewriter’: Werner Herzog on writing his wildest film | Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog has two faces, both wearing the same expression of grave forbearance. To some, he is the formidable adventurer-auteur whose cinematic odysseys,...

‘We didn’t worry about a few dirty laughs!’ The Carry On women on playing nags, bra-burners and ‘crumpet’ | Carry On films

I’m watching a clip from the 1969 film Carry on Camping with Valerie Leon. As in, I’m with Leon, in her house in...

‘We never went down the Aardman route’: how the Brothers Quay rocked the animation world | Animation in film

The Brothers Quay, identical twins, make marvellous, mystifying films in which eerie stop-motion puppets outnumber the few live performers. These films might be...

The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again? | Gary Oldman

Name: George Smiley.Age: It was once observed that Smiley is “one of those ashen Englishmen, like the poet Philip Larkin, who seem to...

‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat | Biopics

Iain Softley, directorI was working at Granada in the 1980s when I came across a photograph of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe while...

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