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<p>Films to be watched behind a cushion: (clockwise, from top left) ‘The Shining’, ‘The Ring’, ‘Get Out’, ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘The Birds’</p>

I watched my first horror film aged 12 and haven’t been the same since

The repercussions of seeing a bad scary movie as a child have been long-lasting and wide-ranging, writes an ever-traumatised Ellie Harrison

<p>‘No studio wanted to pair me up with a female lead after playing a gay role – I did nothing but studio features before that. It took 40 years after that movie to do another one’ </p>

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Harry Hamlin: ‘Clash of the Titans was fraught – the producers didn’t speak to me again for 25 years’

<p>‘No matter your age, there is still life to live’ </p>

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June Squibb on becoming an action star at 94: ‘I’ve fought convention tooth and nail’

<p>Anthony Ramos: ‘At the end of the day, it’s a blockbuster movie. People come to see some s*** get torn up'</p>

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Twisters’ Anthony Ramos: ‘We were in the middle of tornado season’

Inside Film

<p>Putting on the Ritz: Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder in ‘Young Frankenstein’</p>

How Young Frankenstein turned a literary classic into comedy gold

As Mel Brooks’s revisionist monster comedy turns 50, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making and legacy of a truly exceptional ‘Frankenstein’ spoof

<p>Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp in ‘Sleepy Hollow’ </p>

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How Sleepy Hollow became Tim Burton’s most underrated film

The Johnny Depp horror about a series of 19th century headless horsemen killings was a big win for the eccentric director. So why, asks Geoffrey Macnab, has it slipped off the radar?

Reviews

<p>Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine'</p>

Deadpool & Wolverine is a tedious, annoying corporate merger of a film

Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine is appropriately intense – but shortchanged by the fact that the character went through the exact same emotional beats in 2017’s ‘Logan’

<p>Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson in ‘Janet Planet’ </p>

Janet Planet is a wild, theatrical portrait of a mother and daughter

Interviews

<p>‘I’m not going to see “Longlegs”. I know that’s not me up there’ </p>

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Alicia Witt: ‘My Longlegs character came into me and used me as a vessel’

<p>‘There are times I’m frustrated or not getting a job I want, and I’m like, man, if I was just in EastEnders…’ </p>

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Ben Hardy: ‘I felt myself getting lazy as an actor on EastEnders’

<p>‘We’re all victims of people caring more about shareholder value than human value’ </p>

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Judge Reinhold on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – ‘I’m proud to play a cop’

<p>‘I had a very proud moment where I convinced Christopher Nolan that I was British’ </p>

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Maggie Grace: ‘Being killed off in Lost is still my worst heartbreak’

Yorgos Lanthimos

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Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos: ‘Is it beneficial to break the rules?’

‘It normalised the image of a Blackfeet woman on TV, wearing beautiful gowns and speaking her language'

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Lily Gladstone: ‘Awards are just statues, and I’ve got plenty of ’em’

<p>‘When I got to “Saturday Night Live”, it was a time of super-strong, powerful, funny women – I was very aware that other people had a completely different experience with it’</p>

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Amy Poehler: ‘You don’t need a chaotic work environment to be funny’

<p>Richard Linklater: ‘There’s been this reduction of the male, you know’ </p>

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Richard Linklater: ‘Would Dazed and Confused be made today? No way’

Features

<p>Shelley Duvall in 1977’s ‘3 Women’, which brought her to the attention of ‘The Shining’ director Stanley Kubrick </p>

Tribute

Shelley Duvall was a star whose wide eyes showed vulnerable depths

<p>Cool riders: Austin Butler in ‘The Bikeriders’, Peter Fonda in ‘Easy Rider’, and Marlon Brando in ‘The Wild One’ </p>

Features

Mad, bad and dangerous to wear: The wild history of the leather jacket

<p>Donald Sutherland, circa 1975</p>

Tribute

Donald Sutherland was a chameleonic actor who combined charm with menace

<p>Across the UK is a burgeoning cottage industry dealing in all things related to Ian Fleming’s suited and booted, martini-sipping creation</p>

Features

Premium Bonds: inside the world of 007 collectors

Comment

<p>Eddie Murphy is back on screens with the legacy sequel ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’</p>

Comment

Hollywood has finally solved its Eddie Murphy problem

<p>Jessica Alba in ‘Trigger Warning’</p>

Comment

The Trigger Warning ‘boycott’ gives Netflix’s new film too much credit

<p>Back on top: Will Smith at a photoshoot for ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ in May this year </p>

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Will Smith is back on top – but he has bigger problems than slapgate

<p>Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in ‘Hit Man'</p>

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Netflix’s Hit Man is proof that ‘cancel culture’ hasn’t killed cinema

Flashbacks

<p>Long and windy road: Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in ‘Twister’ </p>

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Flying cows and a very angry Spielberg: the tortured making of Twister

<p>‘If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business,’ Locke said in 1977. ‘You weren’t part of Hollywood’ </p>

The tragedy of Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood’s breathtaking muse

<p>Gorgeous, willowy and insouciant: Anna May Wong in ‘Island of Lost Men’ </p>

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Anna May Wong and the mystery of Hollywood’s first Chinese-American star

<p>Nineties greats: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair lead the cast of ‘Cruel Intentions’</p>

How Cruel Intentions compiled the best soundtrack in teen movie history

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