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Sandra Hüller's crowded year: four films, one $684m hit, and a Marvel rumour nobody will confirm

The German actor is suddenly everywhere on screen - but her biggest 2026 role may be the one she won't discuss.

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Linda Cardellini swaps Don Draper for dentures as Friday the 13th gets its origin story

The Freaks and Geeks star heads into full slasher territory for Crystal Lake - but the real story is what a 45-year-old horror franchise is worth to a streamer in 2026.

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The banality of Gaza: what NAZA asks of 'perpetrator cinema'

A new documentary puts anonymised Israeli intelligence officers on camera discussing the assault on Gaza, reviving an old argument about what films like this actually achieve.

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Jimmy McGovern takes Time inside the young offender system, for what may be the last time

The Bafta-winning prison drama returns with David Tennant and a harder target: Britain's youth justice estate.

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McDonagh's Easter Island spy caper surfaces - but who's paying for it stays off the record

Malkovich and Rockwell trade banter about a new Martin McDonagh film; the premise is intriguing, the business behind it conspicuously unexplained.

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The monastery that ate itself: how The Name of the Rose nearly bankrupted its own producer

A new boutique 4K reissue sends Jean-Jacques Annaud and Ron Perlman back to a hilltop set near Rome, Umberto Eco in a deerstalker, and a producer who quietly sold his own office to finish the film.

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Before the Suits: Madness's Lean Years Get a Second Look

A 1981 docufiction resurfaces to show pop's most beloved ska revivalists as broke, bickering north Londoners before the hits arrived.

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Neeson turns producer to bring Tuam's mass grave scandal to the screen

The Lost Children of Tuam dramatises Catherine Corless's fight to expose Ireland's mother and baby home scandal, released as forensic teams continue digging up the evidence itself.

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Madness restore Take It or Leave It, the film they made instead of buying a country pile

Forty-five years on, a 4K restoration revives the ska band's guerrilla origin-story film - proof that spending pop money on art house cinema rarely pays, even when the band can't stop being nutty.

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A wife's iPhone diary becomes the spine of a new Alex Gibney film on Rushdie's survival

The film pairs intimate recovery footage with a Dennis Potter-inflected structure, but a documentary's power doesn't settle the questions around it.

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Cumberbatch fronts eco-documentary, but the industry questions remain off-screen

The actor is touring a new climate film assembled from Alaska to the Amazon - yet who paid for it, and who will see it, stays unclear.

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Rhys makes Emmys history as double win exposes streamers' awards arms race

A first-of-its-kind night for Matthew Rhys says as much about platform strategy as it does about acting.

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Ten Years of Motherland: The Sitcom That Made the School Run Look Like a Horror Film

A decade on from its debut, the BBC comedy's anniversary is a reminder of how rarely British sitcoms get the chance to build an audience at all.

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Almodóvar plays the villain in Bitter Christmas, but the real risk is the release strategy

The Spanish auteur's 24th film promises a reckoning with autofiction, Trump and Netflix, though the interview itself offers more sty than substance.

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Hayden Panettiere, 36: the child star who made a network rewrite the plot

The actor behind Heroes' regenerating cheerleader has died, prompting a reminder of how rare it is for a performer to bend a show's entire arc around them.

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The Diplomat is now an awards machine, and Keri Russell still has not won

Netflix's Washington drama collected a spread of acting and writing nominations for the 78th Emmys on 14 September. Its lead has eight nominations and no statuette, which is a fact about the Academy more than about her.

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