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<p>‘Get away from her you b****!’: Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in ‘Aliens’ </p>

Flashbacks

Aliens: How James Cameron made the greatest sequel in sci-fi history

A director with few credits to his name. A leading lady the studio didn’t want to pay. A mutiny by the British crew. As new sequel ‘Alien: Romulus’ hits cinemas, Tom Fordy looks back on the troubled production of what would become the gold standard for franchise follow-ups

<p>Buying what they’re selling: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the New York premiere of ‘It Ends with Us’ this month</p>

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are no longer actors – they’re influencers

<p>Ilana Glazer: ‘I’ve been told my whole career my work is political’ </p>

Interview

Ilana Glazer on being a non-binary woman: ‘Femininity felt like drag’

<p>Man of the people: Tom Cruise poses for selfies with fans during one of his (many) public appearances this summer, this time at the Paris Olympics</p>

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Tom Cruise’s surreal summer has only added to his oddball mystique

Inside Film

<p>Children of the Cornetto: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in ‘Shaun of the Dead’</p>

How Shaun of the Dead overcame the chaos and redefined horror comedy

Edgar Wright’s film is one of UK cinema’s great success stories – but when you know the story behind it, you can understand how miraculous it was that it came out at all, writes Geoffrey Macnab

<p>‘I’ll be back’: Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator</p>

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Why The Terminator has never felt more relevant, 40 years on

James Cameron’s classic sci-fi is back in cinemas to mark its 40th anniversary. Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making and legacy of film that hard-wired itself into the public psyche

Reviews

<p>Breath mint?: Cailee Spaeny is menaced by a Xenomorph in ‘Alien: Romulus’</p>

Alien: Romulus starts well, but becomes increasingly problematic

<p>Claptrap: Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Cate Blanchett in ‘Borderlands’</p>

Cate Blanchett actioner Borderlands is a total disaster

Interviews

<p>‘It’s the whole point of the film, the sharing of who I am. I dug deep!’ </p>

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Faye Dunaway: ‘I have, we might as well say, a bipolar diagnosis’

<p>‘I don’t think anyone else has ever become a doorknob'</p>

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Joan Chen: ‘I asked David Lynch to write me out of Twin Peaks’

<p>‘No studio wanted to pair me up with a female lead after playing a gay role – I did nothing but studio features before that. It took 40 years after that movie to do another one’ </p>

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Harry Hamlin: ‘Clash of the Titans was fraught – the producers didn’t speak to me again for 25 years’

<p>‘No matter your age, there is still life to live’ </p>

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June Squibb on becoming an action star at 94: ‘I’ve fought convention tooth and nail’

<p>Anthony Ramos: ‘At the end of the day, it’s a blockbuster movie. People come to see some s*** get torn up'</p>

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Twisters’ Anthony Ramos: ‘We were in the middle of tornado season’

<p>‘I’m not going to see “Longlegs”. I know that’s not me up there’ </p>

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Alicia Witt: ‘My Longlegs character came into me and used me as a vessel’

<p>‘There are times I’m frustrated or not getting a job I want, and I’m like, man, if I was just in EastEnders…’ </p>

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Ben Hardy: ‘I felt myself getting lazy as an actor on EastEnders’

<p>‘We’re all victims of people caring more about shareholder value than human value’ </p>

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Judge Reinhold on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – ‘I’m proud to play a cop’

Features

<p>Films to be watched behind a cushion: (clockwise, from top left) ‘The Shining’, ‘The Ring’, ‘Get Out’, ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘The Birds’</p>

I watched my first horror film aged 12 and haven’t been the same since

<p>Shelley Duvall in 1977’s ‘3 Women’, which brought her to the attention of ‘The Shining’ director Stanley Kubrick </p>

Tribute

Shelley Duvall was a star whose wide eyes showed vulnerable depths

<p>Cool riders: Austin Butler in ‘The Bikeriders’, Peter Fonda in ‘Easy Rider’, and Marlon Brando in ‘The Wild One’ </p>

Features

Mad, bad and dangerous to wear: The wild history of the leather jacket

<p>Donald Sutherland, circa 1975</p>

Tribute

Donald Sutherland was a chameleonic actor who combined charm with menace

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Be warned, Marvel fans – Deadpool & Wolverine is using you

<p>Claw of averages: Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’</p>

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Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t just bad – it’s changing what ‘movies’ are

<p>Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell in ‘Twisters’ </p>

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Glen Powell’s rise proves audiences don’t really care about age gaps

<p>Eddie Murphy is back on screens with the legacy sequel ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’</p>

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Hollywood has finally solved its Eddie Murphy problem

Flashbacks

<p>Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren in ‘Caligula'</p>

Features

Is the X-rated cult 1970s movie Caligula a lost masterpiece?

<p>Utterly cutlery: Hank Azaria wields forks as crime-fighter the Blue Raja in ‘Mystery Men’ </p>

Mystery Men was the flop superhero comedy that deserved better

<p>Disaster in the making: Ryan Reynolds and Wesley Snipes in ‘Blade: Trinity’ </p>

Ryan Reynolds, Wesley Snipes and how Blade: Trinity became Marvel’s biggest disaster

<p>Long and windy road: Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in ‘Twister’ </p>

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Flying cows and a very angry Spielberg: the tortured making of Twister

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