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Tom Cruise’s Oscar dream is a disaster (opens the original)
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Tom Cruise is 64. Although Mission: Impossible – the Final Reckoning will be his last outing as Ethan Hunt, he claims he will go on making movies into his hundreds. Cruise’s films have generated $13bn at the box office, but he has never won an Oscar, except an “Academy Honorary Award” for nothing in particular. His three nominations were long ago, the most recent being for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999), his last appearance in a serious auteur drama rather than an action movie. Does he m
Jane Austen, by Gen Z (opens the original)
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The classics always need reviving; what keeps them classic is their adaptability. Even so, making a new Sense and Sensibility is a bit of a poser. The 1995 version, written by and starring Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee, was a corker, rated by many as the best Austen adaptation ever. Thompson’s Englishness melded wonderfully with Ang Lee’s more purely cinematic approach. The cast was fabulous: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet. It still seems just right, and not yet itself a period p
Late Fame is a story of snatched youth (opens the original)
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The Austrian Jewish writer Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Late Fame, written in 1895, came late to fame itself. After he failed to get it serialised, the finished typescript remained in his archive, transferred for safekeeping to Cambridge University Library in 1938. There it stayed, unread, until it was discovered and published for the first time in 2014. It’s a sardonic account of a solitary, elderly Viennese office worker, Saxberger. In his youth, Saxberger had published one volume of poetry – n
Jacob Elordi can't save The Dog Stars (opens the original)
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Ridley Scott doesn’t stop. His current projects in various stages of development include Gladiator III, an adaptation of Treasure Island with Hugh Jackman as Long John Silver, a biopic about the BeeGees, a Western called Freewalkers and a First World War movie, Covenant with Death. Meanwhile, here, at the age of 88, he presents his thirtieth feature. His last two films were epic messes, Napoleon in 2023 and Gladiator II in 2024, the former taking a mere $224 million at the box office, the latter
Death has never been more camp (opens the original)
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The opening credit sequence of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a marvel. We seem to be on a film set, our point of view that of the heavy-breathing menace. Then we’re outside looking on, seeing a horrible killing: the butchering of an innocent couple and a ludicrous geyser of blood. The monster, wielding a spear, has a weird metallic box over its head – a bit like a big film camera, or maybe an entire ceiling vent? This, we quickly realise, is the original Camp Miasma, the founding film
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