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Scottish Braveheart star Brian Cox says Oscar winning film is ‘tosh’ that ‘doesn’t make any sense’

Actor said entirety of Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning epic is a ‘f***ing lie’

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Is Possession about a harrowing divorce or a woman with an octopus kink? Why not both?

Sam Neill barely made it out alive. Isabelle Adjani was left ‘bruised, inside out’. It might be puzzling, it might be brilliant, and it will never leave you

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Moviedrome: the cult BBC film strand that changed how we watched movies

FLASHBACKS: Made to feel like recommendations shared with you by a mate down the pub, ‘Moviedrome’ – which broadcast cinema’s wildest, strangest films – left late-night BBC Two audiences spellbound on Sunday nights from 1988 to 2000. As it inspires a season of screenings at London’s BFI, Alex Deller reminisces…

The Independent UK

A new trailer for "the Citizen Kane of British pop movies" has been released

A fully restored version of Slade's classic 1975 musical film Slade In Flame is coming to cinemas next month

Louder

Keir Starmer’s A-list new look: ‘tech bro’ t-shirts, €195 Ferragamo ties and a Mark Kermode quiff

The Prime Minister’s new clothes? They’re not all bad, insiders tell Joe Bromley

Evening Standard

Mark Kermode targets Martin Scorsese’s ‘not cinema’ Marvel criticism

Critic renowned for his movie takedowns backs studio slammed by Scorsese for churning out ‘theme park’ superhero films

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Mark Kermode fans left delighted by critic’s angry evisceration of ‘staggeringly dull’ new Exorcist film

‘It truly delivered and was everything I could have hoped for,’ one listener said of critic’s latest takedown

The Independent UK

Mark Kermode fans left delighted by critic’s angry evisceration of ‘staggeringly dull’ new Exorcist film

‘It truly delivered and was everything I could have hoped for,’ one listener said of critic’s latest takedown

The Independent UK

Mark Kermode fans left delighted by critic’s angry evisceration of ‘trash’ The Exorcist: Believer

Kermode’s rant has been called his funniest in 10 years

The Independent UK

‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’: the Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub

Hulme Crescents was Europe’s biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in – along with Mick Hucknall – to make a countercultural mecca

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: a dolphin sex scandal, a critic’s top film picks and looking back on Peep Show

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: nuclear power’s price tag revealed, wine glut worries, Wallabies’ historic World Cup loss

Opposition leader’s proposal could cost as much as $387bn, according to the energy department

The Guardian - AU

Mark Kermode: Observer chief film critic leaves role after 10-year stint

Wendy Ide, a regular contributor to the newspaper since 2017, says she is ‘beyond honoured’ to take over the role

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My friend Billy: Mark Kermode remembers The Exorcist director William Friedkin

The Observer film critic on his hero, who died last week aged 87, a man dedicated to telling stories his way and who had a wicked sense of humour

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The Guardian - UK

Could a chatbot write my restaurant reviews?

Artificial intelligence’s ChatGPT is becoming more sophisticated and polished than ever. In seconds, it will knock out essays, lyrics, poems, almost anything… But could it beat Jay Rayner at his own game?

The Guardian - UK

‘I like films that take you into the woods – then leave you there’ – the beguiling folk-horror of Mark Jenkin

The Bafta-winning writer, director and composer – who can count Quentin Tarantino and Warren Ellis among his fans – discusses exploring the dark side of Cornwall in his latest film, Enys Men

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The Guardian - UK

Monsters of doc: Mark Kermode’s top 20 music documentaries

For our festival-averse film critic, movies about concerts and musicians are essential viewing – and he believes we are living through a golden age for the form

Daily Mirror

Upset Simon Mayo predicts more names will go in BBC bloodbath after O'Grady exit

Simon Mayo has expressed his upset over how his departure from the BBC and he predicts that the corporation will forcing more of its stars out

Evening Standard

Blackbird: Michael Flatley’s ‘mind-bendingly terrible’ film already a cult success in London

Blackbird has been a surprise success and is already on the way to being a cult favourite - because it’s so bad

The Independent UK

Blackbird: Mark Kermode fans in hysterics as critic rants about ‘one of the worst films I’ve ever seen’

Critic’s review is being highlighted as one of his funniest ever

The Independent UK

Mark Kermode fans celebrate as critic hilariously reviews ‘one of the worst films I have ever seen’

Kermode’s rant is being highlighted as one of his funniest ever

Daily Mirror

Ex-Radio 2 star Simon Mayo says working for BBC was 'soul destroying' in scathing claim

The radio host moved from Radio 2 to Scala Radio in 2019 but continued to work with the BBC for his popular film-review show – but that came to an abrupt end this year and he now says the Beeb was too restrictive to work with

The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

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