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Harry and Meghan ‘surprised’ at king’s letter reiterating they are non-working royals First Thing: Trade dispute escalates as new Canadian tariffs on US goods come into effect Richard Alston, trailblazer and guiding light of British dance, dies aged 77 Fourteen men go on trial in Paris over deadliest small-boat Channel crossing Donald Trump’s midterm strategy? Make it all about him More than 100,000 people add names to complaint against Gianni Infantino It was clear Pakistan would struggle in England but they were set up to fail Runner review – Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson thriller is serviceable B-movie camp ‘Everything is against us’: Jaguar Land Rover suppliers voice fears amid carmaker’s cutbacks ‘She blazed in and opened my eyes to the real world’: Readers remember Gloria Steinem US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them ‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population? Skyscrapers and smokestacks: the grittier side of Georgia O’Keeffe Don’t Forget Me review – Eddie Cochran bio-doc boasts top-notch roster of talking heads I went to Ikea with my son – and was confronted with my parenting failures New Hampshire and Rhode Island electorate to vote in state primaries - US politics live Liverpool agree £60m-a-year shirt sponsorship deal with Turkish Airlines Mother flagged faulty smoke alarms before house fire that killed father and five children, court hears How the smaller ball trial in WXV has brought ‘mixed bag of emotions’ Artworks stolen from Renoir Museum on French Riviera in latest heist

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Runner review – Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson thriller is serviceable B-movie camp

silverguide.site – Impressive stunts and tongue-in-cheek flourishes elevate Scott Waugh’s silly Aussie action flick…
Runner review – Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson thriller is serviceable B-movie camp
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Don’t Forget Me review – Eddie Cochran bio-doc boasts top-notch roster of talking heads

silverguide.site – Director Kirsty Bell alternates archival footage with tacky dramatised filler, but it’s the breadth of appreciation, from Keith Richards to Kiefer Sutherland that impresses…
Don’t Forget Me review – Eddie Cochran bio-doc boasts top-notch roster of talking heads
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Knightfall review – low-rent gender-flipped Bond knock-off swaps Aston Martins for Minis

silverguide.site – Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott’s no-nonsense spy heads a game cast that includes Ian Ogilvy and Roger Moore’s son Geoffrey, but this austerity actioner lacks tension…
Knightfall review – low-rent gender-flipped Bond knock-off swaps Aston Martins for Minis
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Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom

silverguide.site – Director Miro Remo journeys deep into the Czech countryside to find two brothers living an isolated life filled with quixotic wisdom in this surreal documentary…
Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom
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The Spiral review – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is hilarious as a demon cutting a deal with a vain matriarch

silverguide.site – Tedeschi gives a career best performance as the mysterious stranger who visits a wealthy Italian family to prey on their pampered weaknesses…
The Spiral review – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is hilarious as a demon cutting a deal with a vain matriarch
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Contemporary Films had a global impact and influenced my career as a director | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Ross Devenish says he owes a debt to the British film distributor, while Kal Hodgson invites Mike Leigh to join the Manchester and Salford Film Society…
Contemporary Films had a global impact and influenced my career as a director | Letters
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The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias review – Slavoj Žižek goes in search of paradise

silverguide.site – Inserting himself into settings from Apocalypse Now to The Handmaid’s Tale, the pop-cultural critic finds it hard to locate the perfect ending – even with spoilers…
The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias review – Slavoj Žižek goes in search of paradise
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Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise

silverguide.site – Luke Lorentzen’s light-touch documentary follows a team of Maine craftsmen constructing a high-spec sailboat for a super-rich guy who seems kind of nice…
Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise
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The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening

silverguide.site – Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew…
The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening
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Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target

silverguide.site – Venice film festival: Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it wants to say about media or morality…
Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target
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Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union

silverguide.site – Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like…
Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union
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Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb

silverguide.site – Laurence Lévesque’s powerful documentary follows a woman who discovers a support network among her mother’s generation of survivors of the nuclear blast…
Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb
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Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong

silverguide.site – Childhood friends claim to have witnessed the disappearance of a schoolkid in this low-budget comedy caper that pushes limits of storytelling…
Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong
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‘Sharks are my film stars’: how the Jacques Cousteau of the North Sea finally unlocked its beauty

silverguide.site – Epic plankton blooms make filming in the North Sea notoriously difficult. But a new documentary gives a rare glimpse of the kaleidoscopic life – seals, sharks, tuna, orcas and shorthorn sculpins – lurking beneath its waves…
‘Sharks are my film stars’: how the Jacques Cousteau of the North Sea finally unlocked its beauty
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Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches

silverguide.site – A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival…
Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches
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Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director

silverguide.site – May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for women…
Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director
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Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship

silverguide.site – Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband…
Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship
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Wim Wenders clarifies that he does not believe film-makers should stay out of politics

silverguide.site – Director’s controversial comments earlier this year warned of films that ‘enter the field of politics’…
Wim Wenders clarifies that he does not believe film-makers should stay out of politics
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The French ‘propaganda film’ about nuclear war with Russia drawing ire from the far right

silverguide.site – Alexandre Smia feels thriller about Nato’s disintegration, which premiered in Venice this week, is far from unrealistic…
The French ‘propaganda film’ about nuclear war with Russia drawing ire from the far right
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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion

silverguide.site – The Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created…
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion
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