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Spoiler alert: The Oscar winners predicted (and it’s not over for Barbie yet)

It’s not over ’til the little gold gentleman sings, but picking the winners isn’t as tough as it seems.

  • Michael Idato

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Kali Reis as Evangeline Navarro and Jodie Foster as Liz Danvers in True Detective: Night Country.

How The Silence of the Lambs inspired the True Detective reboot

The True Detective reboot traces its lineage back to the seminal 1991 horror/crime masterpiece starring Jodie Foster.

  • Michael Idato
John Hinckley jnr, pictured in 2003, is set to be released from all court supervision.

John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, to be freed from oversight

Hinckley was 25 when he shot and wounded the 40th US president outside a Washington hotel in 1981.

  • Ben Finley
Tahar Rahim as Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian.

The Mauritanian, a political thriller that shames the land of the free

The Mauritanian is a cracking political thriller, making the case that America has lost its moral leadership and its compass since 9/11.

  • Paul Byrnes
Jodie Foster with Nancy Hollander, the lawyer she plays in The Mauritanian. 

‘A potential it has never reached’: Jodie Foster’s hope for a future America

The dual Oscar winner explores a shameful chapter in US history with her new film about one of Guantanamo Bay’s most compelling cases.

  • Michael Idato
Director Michael Apted, pictured in Beverly Hills in 2019, has died.

Michael Apted, director known for ‘7 Up’ series, dies at 79

The British director was the driving force behind the groundbreaking 7 Up documentary series, which has been described as "the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema".

  • Neil Genzlinger
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Stephen Cornwell (left), John Le Carre and Simon Cornwell at the premiere of The Little Drummer Girl in London late last year,

John le Carre's sons: 'Nerve-racking showing him the final cut'

The spy writer's sons, Simon and Stephen Cornwell, are behind the latest screen adaptations of their father's novels. How does that go?

  • Richard Jinman
‘It's ridiculous’: Jodie Foster’s gripe with male dominance in Hollywood

‘It's ridiculous’: Jodie Foster’s gripe with male dominance in Hollywood

Multi-talented, intelligent, compassionate and unfaltering in her values, if anyone represents what Hollywood ought to aim for it’s Jodie Foster.

  • Karen Overton

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