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South African filmmakers are sounding an S.O.S. over the country’s beleaguered cash rebate system, with leading industry bodies demanding answers over unpaid claims and calling for greater transparency from the officials overseeing the cashback scheme.

Curtis Mayfield was short, and with his rabbity grin and small rectangular-wire-framed glasses hanging halfway down his nose, he looked cute and brainy, like a soul-brother version of Bob Balaban, rather than sexy and swaggery.

Seth Rogen took a studio note personally on “Superbad,” when Sony objected to Jonah Hill’s character using a PlayStation 2 in a scene because he was too “reprehensible.” “They were like, ‘We can’t have him interact with our products as a character, because it’s too vile a character.’ And I was like, ‘It’s based on […].

In the decades since its release to critical acclaim and record-setting grosses, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amélie,” the whimsical dramedy about a quirky Parisian woman finding love through random acts kindness, has endured in pop culture and influenced a generation of filmmakers, both for better and certainly for worse.

In “I Really Love My Husband,” GG Hawkins’ undercooked feature debut as a writer-director, Teresa (Madison Lanesey) tells others that she really loves her husband every chance that she gets.

A gay couple are trapped in a haunted Airbnb with their parents in an initially amusing but progressively exasperating genre mishmash.

There are certainly strategies worse than going all-in on New York City neighborhood flavor to sustain a crowd-pleaser.

Marc Maron called out Bill Maher on the latest episode of the “WTF” podcast, which featured CNN host W. Kamau Bell as a guest (via The Daily Beast). Maron took issue with the “Real Time” host for being partial to “some of the things” Donald Trump is doing in his second administration as U.S. president.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Mickey 17,” currently playing in theaters.

Screenlife movies and producer Timur Bekmambetov go together like wine and cheese.

Netflix will bring ‘six electrifying stories’ from Charlie Brooker to the small screen in April with stars including Peter Capaldi and Issa Rae.

Julia Stiles appeared on Brett Goldstein’s “Films to Be Buried With” podcast and remembered feeling “slimy” when she was forced to perform a dance scene in the 2000 rom-com “Down to You” after Harvey Weinstein took control of the production.

As the 72-year-old prepares for Glastonbury with Chic, we rate the best of his guitar licks and songwriting magic for Madonna, Diana Ross, Sister Sledge and more.

Late-night hosts discuss Trump shilling Teslas with Elon Musk and his dismantling of the Department of Education.

Miami Beach mayor also proposes withdrawing grant after O Cinema screened Palestinian-focused documentary.

Dawn Robinson, of the R&B group that sold more than 20m albums, moved in during the pandemic after a family fallout.

The French director on how Catherine Deneuve didn’t get what he was doing on 8 Women, his love of Kubrick – and why he won’t work in Hollywood.

Film will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the pair behind NYC music doc Meet Me in the Bathroom and LCD Soundsystem concert film.

Gerwig is expected to begin filming The Magician’s Nephew, the origin story of CS Lewis’s classic fantasy novels, with the actor reported to have a major role.

A new exhibition in Los Angeles celebrates the life and work of a painter who died at 37 of Aids as he tried to preserve a record of those around him.

The role has inspired the world’s best ballerinas and her story is as popular as ever – whether revived, reimagined or deconstructed. Dancers explain the appeal of Giselle.

The Age of Disclosure, a provocative new documentary that argues for the existence of extraterrestrials, has drawn gasps and criticism at the SXSW film festival.

Star golfer’s life will become an Amazon MGM movie with King Richard director Reinaldo Marcus Green at the helm.

The Bear actor called Musk a fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a rightwing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp.

Netflix’s motor-racing extravaganza is one of the most influential shows of the decade. How did it turn such a tedious sport into such gripping television?

Feasting polar bears, flying octopuses and gadgets galore – these stunning images won in their category at this year’s awards.

An eye-opening insider account of Facebook alleges a bizarre office culture and worrying political overreach.

The Oscar nominee plays a cop plunged into a web of drugs, death and flashbacks in overlong crime series.

Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s drama about a teen accused of murder is astounding. Its dazzling performances, and the devastating questions it asks, will linger with you.

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A fallen warrior trades in fighting for putting the kettle on, wandering round gardens and watering plants. Much more than cosy – it’s healing.

SXSW film festival: Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr and Regina Hall are left adrift in messy attempt to mash genres.

‘We walked three kilometres into this Australian lake, to where the water was still only a metre deep. Then we set up the gas pipe – and waited until the air was really still’.

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whys.

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth’s community in rural Maine is not always welcoming to trans women. She deals with the hostility by capturing the local area’s beauty.

Icons such as Tina Turner and Jerry Hall brought zinging colour to the iconic photographer’s work during the decade of decadence, but his intimate family shots captured a tenderness, too.

A new exhibition shows how artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films such as Vertigo and Alien while navigating communist censors.

Natalia Osipova stars in a special programme at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre this month. We step into rehearsals.

Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished.

All the best looks – from brooches to a bubble dress – on the red carpet at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

From a fox in the city to impromptu parrot hats, the ninth instalment of the photo extravaganza aims to be a ‘love letter to the natural world’.