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In Heightened Scrutiny, the fight driving activist and lawyer Chase Strangio is backgrounded by a deep dive into how the media has helped to push an anti-trans agenda ...

As his sequel to Wicked prepares to storm Christmas, the director talks about the dynamism of Grande and Cynthia Erivo - and why his Wizard of Oz riff is quite simply one of the greatest stories of our time ...

Johnson Wen, who jumped over a barricade at Universal Studios Singapore and rushed at the Wicked star, has been convicted of being a public nuisance ...

The Hollywood star - who had been nominated for multiple Oscars but never previously won - was honoured at the Academy's annual Governors awards, along with Dolly Parton, Wynn Thomas and Debbie Allen ...

The director has taken fresh aim at the new film, saying that producer Seth MacFarlane 'totally missed' the spoof-comedy style that defined the original Naked Gun franchise ...

Sofie Benoot's film opens out from the film-maker's medical problem to a diverting reflection on humankind's deep roots in ancient minerals ...

Igor Bezinovi uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist's ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city ...

The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort movies is a trip back to 1980s London and the predatory music industry ...

Williamson stars in a debut feature that feels more like an elongated music video than a fully realised drama, but it's redeemed by some hilarious moments and strident imagery ...

This story of emancipated young women escaping draconian social strictures brims with enthusiasm and features a cameo from Phoebe Waller-Bridge ...