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How Hollywood buried the original version of Meet the Parents

by Darren Richman

In 1992 Greg Gli­en­na released a film about a man meet­ing his girl­friend’s par­ents for the first time. Eight years lat­er, a Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro com­e­dy with the same premise made a for­tune. What happened?
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Review

The Fall Guy review – good stunts, appalling script

by Hannah Strong

In David Leitch’s bom­bas­tic salute to the Hol­ly­wood stunt indus­try, Ryan Gosling becomes inad­ver­tent­ly embroiled in a nefar­i­ous plot while try­ing to regain the trust of his for­mer lover.

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In Retrospect
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How music supervisor became the hottest job in Hollywood

by Carly Mattox

With some insights from the peo­ple curat­ing the per­fect sound­tracks, we take a look at how a rel­a­tive­ly new role in film­mak­ing has become essen­tial to cre­at­ing a mem­o­rable music moment in movies.
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Review

Maestro review – as heady and bombastic as a golden-age Hollywood musical

by Lillian Crawford

Bradley Coop­er soars in this lov­ing­ly craft­ed biopic of leg­endary com­pos­er Leonard Bernstein.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed review – gossipy, entertaining look at a mythological man

by Patrick Sproull

Stephen Kijak speaks to Rock Hud­son’s friends and lovers to build a lov­ing – but per­haps a lit­tle one-note – por­trait of a Hol­ly­wood star.

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In Retrospect
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Hollywood’s enduring fear of Artificial Intelligence shows no signs of letting up

by Victoria Luxford

As Gareth Edwards’ The Cre­ator storms into cin­e­mas, we trace the film indus­try’s obses­sion with the idea that a robot upris­ing looms on the horizon.
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In Praise Of

The enduring joy of Dick Cavett’s Old Hollywood interviews

by Sarah Cleary

Stars includ­ing Kather­ine Hep­burn and Glo­ria Swan­son appeared on Dick Cavet­t’s sem­i­nal Amer­i­can talk show – a reminder that the tele­vised inter­view is some­thing of a lost art.
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In Praise Of

How Saving Private Ryan changed the war movie

by Sam Moore

Twen­ty-five years on, Steven Spiel­berg’s World War Two epic com­plete­ly rev­o­lu­tionised the way Hol­ly­wood thought about depict­ing con­flict on screen.
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Close to dogliness: the Christian undertones of canines in Hollywood

by Daisy Steinhardt

Man’s best friend has pro­vid­ed ample enter­tain­ment across cin­e­ma’s his­to­ry, but in the all-Amer­i­can fam­i­ly film pan­theon, canines take on a more beatif­ic significance.
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This Just In

The past proves that Hollywood’s unions are powerful – and that striking works

by Jessica White

As ten­sions mount between the WGA, SAG-AFTRA and the ATFP, it’s worth look­ing to past exam­ples for proof that Tin­sel­town’s unions have changed the indus­try for the better.