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The film-maker answers your questions on his famous collaborators, whether Brazil is a Christmas movie – and what he really thinks about baked beans

Willem Dafoe has made more than 150 movies, but in a forced break from filming he leaned into a new role. He talks about art, his new film Poor Things – and gentleman farming

The world, heading into 2024, has never looked better?

This is Ortiz Jr’s first foray into the 154lbs weight class

Slackers, hackers, and fashionable teenagers dominated the big screen in the '90s

The Evening Standard columnist has infantilised Rupert Murdoch once before, in 2008’s The Man Who Owns the News, a magnificent biography that many in his family are still fuming about; so this fabulously gossipy book is a sequel of sorts, even if it does have a broader remit. And while…

The actor makes an underwhelming first feature as film-maker, a thinly etched adaptation of Cheryl Della Pietra’s semi-autobiographical book

Politics has long been fueled by recreational substances of all kinds. This is fake news about a non-issue

Just a year ago, the image of Johnny Depp smiling and waving atop the Palais steps at the Cannes Film Festival would have been unthinkable to most — including to Depp, himself

Despite being ordered to pay magazine writer E. Jean Carroll £3.9 million in damages, after being found liable for sexually abusing her in a dressing room in the 1990s, Donald Trump is now counter-suing her for defamation. Here’s everything you need to know about the woman behind the headlines

A look at the American’s drug- and alcohol-fuelled writing from his legendary heyday in the 60s and 70s. Plus: there are deep-seated tensions in Rain Dogs. Here’s what to watch this evening