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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Alicia Silverstone will play Cher Horowitz once again in a new TV series follow-up to hit 1995 comedy Clueless. The 48-year-old actor has been set as star and executive producer of an episodic sequel at Peacock. The show will be written and produced by Josh Shwartz and Stephanie Savage, best known for Gossip Girl. The original film’s writer and director, Amy Heckerling, will also join as an executive producer.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Stars such as Lady Gaga, Charli xcx, Ed Sheeran and Missy Elliott will face blazing temperatures this weekend at an unusually hot Coachella festival. The California-based festival will soar to potentially record-breaking highs of 103F (over 39C) in its first of two consecutive weekends, around 10-20 degrees higher than what’s typically expected at this time of year.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Released just three months after the inauguration, geopolitical action thriller G20 was always going to have unavoidable resonance. While the shoot ended back in March last year, there must have been points during the post-production process when those involved wondered if their film – a rousing story of a Black female president taking charge – would coincide with a similar, albeit less schlocky, real world victory.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
There are big, all-consuming emotions contained within the cosy Netflix weepie The Life List, a film about grief, family, love, dreams, heartbreak and the courage to strive for the life you truly want rather than the one you’ve settled for.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Boulder, Colorado, has been named as the new home for the Sundance film festival starting in 2027. The festival, which was started in 1978 by Robert Redford, will move from its home in Park City, Utah. Sundance brings more than 20,000 people a year to the ski town, which many had seen as too small to house something of this size. The cities in contention had been limited to Salt Lake City, Boulder and Cincinnati.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are set to reprise their X-Men roles in Avengers: Doomsday. Marvel kicked off a live stream today to announce the long list of actors who will star in the first Avengers film in six years. The pair will join Black Panther actors Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Tenoch Huerta Mejía; Thor’s Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston; Ant-Man’s Paul Rudd; Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu; and Captain America’s Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
The first trailer has emerged for western Rust, the production that saw an on-set accident lead to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film stars Alec Baldwin as an outlaw in 1880s Kansas who breaks his grandson out of jail after he accidentally kills a rancher who is sentenced to hang. It also stared Frances Fisher and Travis Fimmel. It’s described as “a heartfelt and emotional story forged in the struggles of the new frontier”.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
After rumours circulated online, Amazon has now confirmed that Amy Pascal and David Heyman will steer the next James Bond adventure. The news comes after longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson gave creative control to the tech company in a deal that is reported to have cost around $1bn.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
There remains unending interest in the bizarre story of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian girl adopted by an American family who then claimed she was actually an adult. The saga starts in 2010 but a similar tale had already been told in 2009’s Orphan, a horror film hinged on a similar twist, itself inspired by the real case of the Estonian imposter Barbora Skrlová.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Benjamin Lee
Writer-director Craig Johnson broke out with 2014’s spiky comedy drama The Skeleton Twins, a film that hit familiar Sundance indie beats but hit them better than most. He has struggled a little since, from annoying Woody Harrelson-led comedy Wilson to ho-hum gay high school romance Alex Strangelove, and so one can understand why Johnson might feel like a big swing in a different direction might make most sense.
