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Elton’s raw honesty on fame, sexuality a Toronto film fest highlight
“When I stopped fooling myself, my life turned around,” the iconic pop legend said, as the documentary on his life Elton John: Never Too Late, premiered in Toronto.
- by Michael Idato
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Speak No Evil star says film is ‘social more than conventional horror’
For someone who has played a super soldier in Terminator: Dark Fate and a replicant in Blade Runner 2049, Mackenzie Davis has never been more human than in her new film.
- by Louise Rugendyke
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It’s curtains: Paddington’s Chauvel cinema down to ‘its last days’
Having shut the Verona this year, the Palace arthouse chain said its last Oxford Street cinema might not last beyond this month.
- by Garry Maddox
Almost everything in this film will divide audiences – that’s why it’s great
Last Summer suggests that when desire takes hold, morality flies out the window.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Inspired, witty and full of warmth, June Squibb’s Thelma steals the show
Writer-director Josh Margolin has a deft and tender touch when it comes to the tricky relationship between farce and poignancy.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★½
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice offers a heartwarming story about grief
Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton reunite for the long-delayed sequel that never allows schmaltz to overtake the morbid gags.
- by Jake Wilson
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Long after Xena, Lucy Lawless directs a film about another warrior princess
The documentary Never Look Away is about “a wild woman in terms of sex, drugs and punk music” – maverick photojournalist Margaret Moth.
- by Garry Maddox
SpongeBob has been around for 25 years, but it’s not just kids keeping it afloat
It’s meant to be a kids’ franchise, but young adults are still lapping it up. What is it about this yellow sponge that has Gen Z in a chokehold?
- by Nell Geraets
‘Tiring as hell, but great fun’: 94-year-old June Squibb finally has the role of a lifetime
She started as a 19-year-old tap dancer, was nominated for an Oscar when she was 84 and now has her first lead role, but June Squibb wouldn’t have it any other way.
- by Louise Rugendyke
‘The Brits made us feel like it was a peasant language’: Kneecap’s rebellious rise to power
The real-life story of a rap trio from Belfast and their fight to save the Irish language has become one of the year’s hottest films.
- by Thomas Mitchell
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