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Val Kilmer starred alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun.

Elusive Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and Batman, dies

A wide-ranging actor who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.

January 2022

Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani.

What’s fact and what’s fiction in ‘House of Gucci’

How the story really unfolded in the true-crime saga of this fabulously wealthy but dysfunctional family.

January 2020

Kang-Ho Song, from left, Park So-dam, Bong Joon-ho, Jang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, and Lee Sun Gyun with the award for outstanding performance by a cast for "Parasite".

'Parasite' scores historic upset at SAG awards, boosting Oscar chances

The social satire about the wealth gap in South Korea, was the first film in a foreign language to win the top prize of best cast ensemble in the 26 year-history of the SAG awards.

In Hollywood, crime always pays: Martin Scorsese, centre, Al Pacino, left, and Robert De Niro have made their names together in gangster films.

Netflix leads Hollywood pack in Oscars race

A star powered line-up of films has propelled the streaming giant to the top of the Academy Awards nominations lists, with a tally of 24 for a range of movies.

November 2019

Robert De Niro, as mobster Frank Sheeran, with Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. 

Catch The Irishman on the big screen while you can

We've come to trust Martin Scorsese and his criminals of choice to get the job done, and this three-and-a-half hour epic could happily be twice as long.

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