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  The Mummy review: Tom Cruise’s monster movie shuffles off all signs of life

  Universal Studios’ mission to reboot its classic monster cycle as a new cinematic Dark Universe begins in chains with this desperately enervated first instalment, says Kim Newman.

  Kim Newman
  Sunday 11 June 2017

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  Film of the week: My Cousin Rachel, a gothic conjugal intrigue

  Rachel Weisz’s is she/isn’t she killer bride bewitches this sleek Daphne du Maurier adaptation, says Lisa Mullen.

  Lisa Mullen
  Sunday 11 June 2017

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  Fugitive variations: Philippe Garrel’s elliptical cinema of a life

  For more than 50 years, the French director Philippe Garrel has condensed, refracted and reimagined the highs and lows of his life on film, write Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin.

  Cristina Álvarez López , Adrian Martin
  Sunday 11 June 2017

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  10 great German Expressionist films

  From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Nosferatu, the trend for shadows, angst and exaggerated sets in 1920s German cinema laid the foundations for everything from film noir to the horror genre.

  Pamela Hutchinson , Alex Barrett
  Thursday 8 June 2017

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  Visions of a better Europe: Jean Renoir’s pacifist masterpiece La Grande Illusion turns 80

  Among the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s First World War drama La Grande Illusion – released exactly 80 years ago – still packs a powerful punch as a film about humanity’s common bonds.

  Pamela Hutchinson
  Thursday 8 June 2017

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  Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 1-4 recap – so far, so wayward

  David Lynch’s game-changing TV mystery show Twin Peaks is back on our screens after 26 years – and on the evidence of the first episodes, it’s a shiftier beast than ever. Tom Huddleston joins the investigation.

  Tom Huddleston
  Thursday 8 June 2017

  TV

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  Dean Martin centenary – In praise of Dean Martin in Howard Hawks’ joyous western Rio Bravo

  On the centenary of Rat Pack legend Dean Martin’s birth, we sing the praises of his immortal turn as the drunken Dude in the classic western Rio Bravo.

  Matthew Thrift
  Wednesday 7 June 2017

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  Iconic 1980s and 90s British films released on Blu-ray and DVD

  My Beautiful Laundrette and key films by Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are coming to BFI Blu-ray and DVD this summer.

  Wednesday 7 June 2017

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  Where to begin with the Universal horror cycle

  Your next obsession: the gothic monster movies of Universal Studios

  Christopher Machell
  Tuesday 6 June 2017

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  Lost in the filters: social media past and present at Oberhausen 

  The German short film festival celebrated examples of ‘social’ media before the age of Twitter, Facebook et al. So how better for Kevin B. Lee to report on the event than via Instagram?

  Kevin B. Lee
  Tuesday 6 June 2017

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