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The woman who mistook a stranger for her dad, and made a film about it
Tracie Laymon ‘liked’ her estranged father on Facebook, and he liked her back. Except it wasn’t her dad. But relax: this story has a happy ending.
- by Karl Quinn
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The classic Australian railway film that took its cameraman to a Hollywood career
Made in 1974, A Steam Train Passes celebrates a bygone era. Now it has been remastered in high-definition 4K.
- by Garry Maddox
Dramas, thrillers, romcoms? None of them beat this movie genre
All hail the buddy comedy, cinema’s most reliable comfort.
- by Vyshnavee Wijekumar
Gerard Depardieu is standing trial for sexual assault. He says he doesn’t know what that means
The French actor, 76, told a court that placing a hand on someone’s buttocks isn’t sexual assault and that the #MeToo movement is “a form of hysteria”.
- by Juliette Jabkhiro
What can this thriller about a secret hidden in a barn teach us about ourselves?
Low-budget thriller In Vitro raises interesting questions – but ultimately doesn’t answer enough of them.
- by Sandra Hall
If this film is too successful, it could destroy the very thing it’s documenting
Gentle documentary, The Cats of Gokogu Shrine, invites us into a quiet world populated by stray cats.
- by Jake Wilson
Richard Gere’s deathbed confessions thwarted by underwritten characters around him
Despite a cast that includes Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman, Oh, Canada fragments in a way that is difficult to care about – or piece together.
- by Sandra Hall
Rami Malek wanted Daniel Craig’s body. Turns out he didn’t need it
Having decided that Bond-style workouts weren’t for him, the Oscar winner opted for a new kind of action hero - the lethal geek.
- by Richard Jinman
Israeli police release Oscar-winning director
Hamdan Ballal says he was blindfolded while soldiers placed objects on his head and mocked him, saying: “This is the Oscar-winning filmmaker.”
- by Natan Odenheimer, Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
Oscar-winning director allegedly attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by army
Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained, according to witnesses. His co-director says they have been regularly attacked since winning the Academy Award for best documentary feature.
- by Julia Frankel
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