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Scene Stealers: Piano practice stand-off in The Power of the Dog

By Marina Ashioti

Our series on the most spell-binding moments from 2022’s Best Picture Nominees continues with Jane Campion’s tense take on the Old West.

The Power of the Dog

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Jane Campion’s claustrophobic, slow-burn western dials up the queer subtext of Thomas Savage’s source novel.

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The Power of the Dog – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Jane Campion doesn’t so much dissect masculinity as explode it in her dirt-smudged adaptation of Thomas Savage’s western.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a dastardly cowpoke in The Power of the Dog trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He stars with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons in the new Western from Jane Campion.

Black female empowerment in Bring It On

By Ayoola Solarin

The cheerleading comedy has aged better than most early-2000s teen movies, especially in how it tackles systematic inequality and cultural appropriation.

Watch: A Beginner’s Guide to Sofia Coppola

By Will Webb

A video celebration of this acclaimed American filmmakers, ahead of the release of her latest, On the Rocks.

Drop Dead Gorgeous at 20: The cult teen movie 1999 wasn’t ready for

By Beth Webb

How the “most smartest” comedy overcame a box office bashing to find a devoted fanbase.

The continued saga of bringing ‘The Bell Jar’ to the big screen

By Emma Fraser

Kirsten Dunst is the latest star to attempt to adapt Sylvia Plath’s novel – but will we ever see it?

The Beguiled

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sofia Coppola’s steamy Southern potboiler is her most arresting and assured movie to date.

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Coming of age with the cinema of Kirsten Dunst

By Adam White

From Small Soldiers to her collaborations with Sofia Coppola, a generation of moviegoers have grown up alongside the American star.

Girlhood and sexual repression in The Virgin Suicides and The Beguiled

By Lauren Thompson

Both films deal with difficult themes relating to female coming of age.

Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man is a great New York movie

By Henry Bevan

The director’s 2002 franchise opener is a tribute to this iconic city and the people who live in it.

The Beguiled – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sofia Coppola stuns the Cannes crowd with an intoxicating film about repressed female sexuality.

Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m telling the same story but from the women’s point of view’

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/director tells us how she toyed with gender politics and screen hunks for her new film, The Beguiled.

Watch the psychedelic first trailer for Woodshock

By Amy Bowker

Kirsten Dunst is submerged in a dream world in this hypnotic horror-thriller.

Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled gets a stunning trailer

By Little White Lies

Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell star in the director’s racy period remake.

Yorgos Lanthimos is directing Kirsten Dunst in a surreal sounding new TV show

By Lena Hanafy

The Fargo actress will star in On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

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