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Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup

silverguide.site – The 51st edition of the Canadian festival will also feature world premieres starring Taron Egerton, Amanda Seyfried and Chase Infiniti…
Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup
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Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out

silverguide.site – From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem…
Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out
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Acting the fool: why have Hollywood press tours become so gimmicky?

silverguide.site – From playing would you rather to ranking snacks, A-listers navigating the promo trail are now forced on a set schedule of silliness…
Acting the fool: why have Hollywood press tours become so gimmicky?
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‘Justice, morality and triumph’: why Matilda is my feelgood movie

silverguide.site – The latest in our series of writers picking their most meaningful comfort watches is a tribute to the inspiring power of the 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation…
‘Justice, morality and triumph’: why Matilda is my feelgood movie
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Brenda Fricker obituary

silverguide.site – Actor who was the first Irish woman to win an Oscar for her role in the 1989 film classic My Left Foot…
Brenda Fricker obituary
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‘Maybe the best pumped-up sequel ever made’: James Cameron’s Aliens hits 40

silverguide.site – The director’s more-is-more approach to the 1986 sequel gave us seat-edge action and an indelible performance from a rule-breaking Sigourney Weaver…
‘Maybe the best pumped-up sequel ever made’: James Cameron’s Aliens hits 40
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Homer’s Odyssey transformed in film and in translation | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Alex Dickie on Uberto Pasolini’s 2024 film, Darryl Accone on differing translations of the Greek original, and Roberto Breña on the excitement around Christopher Nolan’s new version…
Homer’s Odyssey transformed in film and in translation | Letters
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Chastity, nodding and enormous pores: will women also love Nolan’s Odyssey?

silverguide.site – Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation has been met with almost universal acclaim – from mostly male film critics. Might women find the journey less comfortable?…
Chastity, nodding and enormous pores: will women also love Nolan’s Odyssey?
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‘I don’t play around’: Nolan fans fly into London to see The Odyssey at BFI Imax

silverguide.site – Film fanatics arrive from US, Switzerland and Ireland for midnight premiere of director’s critically acclaimed epic…
‘I don’t play around’: Nolan fans fly into London to see The Odyssey at BFI Imax
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Heartstopper Forever review – sanitized sex scenes won’t let the Netflix lovebirds grow up

silverguide.site – The film-length finale to the teen LGBTQ+ show has poignant moments but feels like fan service by numbers…
Heartstopper Forever review – sanitized sex scenes won’t let the Netflix lovebirds grow up
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‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey - and getting a puppy

silverguide.site – How do you follow Oppenheimer? By spending £250m bringing Homer’s epic poem to the big screen in Imax. Today’s most powerful director talks big swings, trauma-bonding and the healing powers of chocolate labrador Charlie…
‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey - and getting a puppy
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‘A masterpiece in every way’: The Odyssey earns near universal acclaim as full reviews published

silverguide.site – Christopher Nolan’s epic was given five stars by the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph, while the New York Times called it a ‘monumental adaptation’…
‘A masterpiece in every way’: The Odyssey earns near universal acclaim as full reviews published
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Letter: Patricia Greene obituary

silverguide.site – Sean O’Connor writes: She was thrilled, then completely stunned to be offered the lead role in the film…
Letter: Patricia Greene obituary
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‘From the father of the guy who made Obsession’: is the nepo dad the new nepo baby?

silverguide.site – With Dane Cook set to star his new film, Curry Barker’s dad joins Lana Del Rey’s dad and Tom Holland’s dad in a new wave of nepo daddies…
‘From the father of the guy who made Obsession’: is the nepo dad the new nepo baby?
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Sam Neill’s cause of death revealed to be pneumonia

silverguide.site – Neill’s longtime representative says the actor’s family agreed to release the information due to ‘inaccuracies and outright falsehoods’ in media…
Sam Neill’s cause of death revealed to be pneumonia
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The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis

silverguide.site – Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition…
The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis
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George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

silverguide.site – Star Wars director calls AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and says ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’…
George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar

silverguide.site – The passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close…
Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
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Confessions of a Shopaholic: a charming Isla Fisher romcom worth taking to the checkout

silverguide.site – The PJ Hogan-directed film may not have the polish of The Devil Wears Prada but it has new relevance in the buy now, pay later era…
Confessions of a Shopaholic: a charming Isla Fisher romcom worth taking to the checkout
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‘It wasn’t a dream, it was a threat’: the film festival celebrating pan-Africanism’s rich and complex history

silverguide.site – Project a Black Planet: Film, a new season of screenings at the Barbican in London exemplifies how the movement was an act of solidarity, resistance and fierce creativity…
‘It wasn’t a dream, it was a threat’: the film festival celebrating pan-Africanism’s rich and complex history
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