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Will Dune: Messiah be Villeneuve’s crowning achievement, or the moment the spice runs dry?

www.wakaticket.com – Denis Villeneuve has already done the well-nigh impossible, making two brilliant big-screen versions of Dune, but given the history of sci-fi film sequels, another could be a terrifying sandworm too many…
Will Dune: Messiah be Villeneuve’s crowning achievement, or the moment the spice runs dry?
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September Says review – intense sisterly bond leads to things getting strange in rural Ireland

www.wakaticket.com – There’s a lot to grab your attention here, but strong performances struggle to save Ariane Labed’s adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s novel Sisters…
September Says review – intense sisterly bond leads to things getting strange in rural Ireland
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Why Emilia Pérez should win the best picture Oscar

www.wakaticket.com – Despite the controversy this is a wildly inventive and ambitious film. Completely absurd, subversive and never, ever boring, it still deserves to be in the discussion…
Why Emilia Pérez should win the best picture Oscar
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The Birthday review – cult Corey Feldman movie arrives after 20 years in film wilderness

www.wakaticket.com – Given a boost by Jordan Peele, this hyped ‘lost’ movie from Eugenio Mira about freaky goings-on at a hotel finally gets a proper release…
The Birthday review – cult Corey Feldman movie arrives after 20 years in film wilderness
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Escape from the 21st Century review – teenagers fast-forward to the future in barmy sci-fi

www.wakaticket.com – Three school friends discover their adult selves in this fast and flashy adventure debut from director Li Yang…
Escape from the 21st Century review – teenagers fast-forward to the future in barmy sci-fi
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James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007

www.wakaticket.com – Exclusive: Property developer making trademark challenge claims the spy franchise is in mortal danger…
James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007
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What Marielle Knows review – teenager’s telepathic powers reveal parents’ secrets and lies

www.wakaticket.com – In this fantasy-satire of bourgeois family life, a girl is suddenly able to see everything her messed-up parents are up to…
What Marielle Knows review – teenager’s telepathic powers reveal parents’ secrets and lies
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‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock

www.wakaticket.com – ‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’…
‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock
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People (Ludzie) review – multi-thread epic offers raw tales from the Russia-Ukraine war

www.wakaticket.com – The brutalising reality of the battlefield connects five different stories in this anti-war drama…
People (Ludzie) review – multi-thread epic offers raw tales from the Russia-Ukraine war
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Girls on Wire review – Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle

www.wakaticket.com – A stunt double who plays roof-bouncing ninjas before the lead steps in for the closeup is stuck in a family/mob triangle in Vivian Qu’s occasionally silly thriller…
Girls on Wire review – Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle
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Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine

www.wakaticket.com – Recordings of fighters’ wiretapped phone calls are juxtaposed with images of wartime destruction in Oksana Karpovych’s compelling war documentary…
Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine
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Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar

www.wakaticket.com – In the first of our annual Oscar hustings, here’s why RaMell Ross’s incredibly tender film of Colson Whitehead’s novel should take the top prize…
Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar
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A Picture to Remember review – memories of a Donetsk happy childhood before the war

www.wakaticket.com – Olga Chernykh’s portrait of life in war-torn Ukraine, based on home videos, examines how bonds and memories persist through trauma, loss and distance…
A Picture to Remember review – memories of a Donetsk happy childhood before the war
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‘It has it all’: why The Wedding Singer is my feelgood movie

www.wakaticket.com – The latest in our series where writers draw attention to their favourite good-time watches goes back to the 90s when Adam Sandler went back to the 80s…
‘It has it all’: why The Wedding Singer is my feelgood movie
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‘It was like she was possessed’: how Q Lazzarus made Silence of the Lambs’ most bewitching song – and then vanished

www.wakaticket.com – Her track Goodbye Horses soundtracked one of the 90s thriller’s most memorable scenes, but the singer ended up driving cabs and dying in obscurity. Now a new documentary lets her tell her story…
‘It was like she was possessed’: how Q Lazzarus made Silence of the Lambs’ most bewitching song – and then vanished
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‘All this attention is old hat’: Oscar-hopeful Orin O’Brien on making music – and history

www.wakaticket.com – She caused a sensation in 1966 when she joined the New York Phil and its 103 male musicians. Now the double bassist is the star of The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a documentary nominated for an Academy Award…
‘All this attention is old hat’: Oscar-hopeful Orin O’Brien on making music – and history
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‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando

www.wakaticket.com – As the film that caused havoc at its Paris premiere resurfaces, the great French actor looks back on an extraordinary career, from the furore of Meetings With Anna to the meltdown of Apocalypse Now…
‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando
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Baftas 2025: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – as it happened

www.wakaticket.com – It was goths galore on the red carpet, while David Tennant sang on stage and Conclave locked horns with The Brutalist. Here’s what happened at the 78th British academy film awards…
Baftas 2025: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – as it happened
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Demi Moore, Ralph Fiennes and Gromit: nine key Bafta snubs and surprises

www.wakaticket.com – Mikey Madison’s best actress victory, Emilia Pérez staying in the race, Bob Dylan getting no love: we round up the top marmalade-droppers from British film’s biggest evening…
Demi Moore, Ralph Fiennes and Gromit: nine key Bafta snubs and surprises
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‘Dame Judi Dench has just signed on to play the egg timer’: the best quotes from the 2025 Baftas

www.wakaticket.com – David Tennant’s Trump jokes, Conclave’s Edward Berger on the crisis of democracy and Stephen Merchant on Boggle…
‘Dame Judi Dench has just signed on to play the egg timer’: the best quotes from the 2025 Baftas
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