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45 Years Later, The Seediest Noir Thriller Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Sweat through the Criterion Collection's latest 4K affair.

Inverse

Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut review – does Norma Desmond really need another closeup?

Aside from a brief pre-shoot ‘discussion’, this take on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film has little to offer – despite some fine performances

The Guardian - UK

Staying in with the old: the best films to watch on New Year’s Eve

For those not going out to celebrate, you can still party with Harry and Sally, play cards with Jack Lemmon and make merry hell at the Overlook Hotel

The Guardian - UK

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The Apartment: Billy Wilder’s Christmas classic is the blueprint for romcoms everywhere

The 1960 film about a downtrodden insurance worker and his burgeoning crush is full of staccato repartee and unforgettable jokes. It’s barely aged a day

The Guardian - AU

Rob Reiner had the greatest ever run of movies, Richard Osman says as Hollywood director found dead

Richard Osman rates the legendary Hollywood director as one of the greatest of all time

Evening Standard

Hollywood is poison – and few films understand its horrors like Sunset Boulevard

INSIDE FILM: Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

The Independent UK

Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood never looked more glorious or more tragic

Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusions

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The Surprising Inspiration Behind The Most Whimsical Fantasy Movie Of The Year

'Eternity' director David Freyne chats about his surreal fantasy romance, and why the film had to end the way it does.

Inverse

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta Gerwig

The Guardian - UK

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festival

The Guardian - UK

5 new Prime Video movies with over 91% on Rotten Tomatoes to stream in June

With three crime movies, a sports drama, and a war epic, these are 5 new Prime Video movies you should stream this month.

TechRadar

The Seven Year Itch at 70: a comedy about infidelity ruined by the Hays code

Marilyn Monroe is incandescent in Billy Wilder’s comedy about a tempted married man, but it’s a film hampered by restrictions of the time

The Guardian - US

7 tense thrillers on Prime Video with 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores you can't miss

These gripping Prime Video thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat

TechRadar

Nicolas Cage sells his soul for a house in 'The Surfer'

Lorcan Finnegan’s “The Surfer” isn’t a film about toxic masculinity and tribalism

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Clive Revill obituary

Superb stage actor who lent power to British TV productions of the 1970s and made a string of enjoyable movies

The Independent UK

Clive Revill death: Star Wars and Batman actor dies at 94

New Zealand-born actor was a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and made two films with Billy Wilder

The Independent UK

15 worst films that ever won Oscars, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: Jacob Stolworthy runs through 15 of the awards show’s most ridiculous victors... and what should have won instead

The Guardian - AU

Ace in the Hole: a strikingly relevant and cyclonically witty take on the media

This cynical, noir-adjacent film about a hotshot reporter who inserts himself into the story still stands the test of time

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Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!

With the release of The Substance, in which Demi Moore’s fading celebrity seeks to create a younger version of herself, we rate the 10 best films about turning back time

The Guardian - AU

Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical

In her first theatre role in decades, the soprano is simply not up to the task of playing Norma Desmond

Tom’s Guide

5 best classic movies just added to Prime Video with 95% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

Classic movie fans are being treated to a treasure trove of Hollywood favorites on Prime Video this month — here are the 5 you need to watch first from "Rear Window" to "Psycho".

GoodToKnow

Ant McPartlin reveals son’s ‘trendy’ baby name - and a baby name expert believes the choice is set to rise in popularity

The I'm A Celeb presenter has jumped on the unisex baby name trend with a sweet and unique choice

The Guardian - UK

Alone time: reassessing Greta Garbo, 100 years after her screen debut

The icy glamour of Garbo’s doomed heroines is genuinely iconic, but cinema’s most famous loner could also do comedy. A century after her first appearance – and 83 years since her last, here’s why Hollywood missed her so badly

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best films about drinking

Be your January dry or anything but, here’s to boozing in the movies, from The Lost Weekend to Sideways, Whisky Galore! and Harvey

Cinemablend

32 Hollywood Stars That Lived To Be More Than 90

Here are 32 beloved Hollywood stars who lived to be older than 90.

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