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Monsieur Spade's Clive Owen talks his transformation into Sam Spade

Monsieur Spade star Clive Owen spoke with What to Watch about his transformation into legendary gumshoe Sam Spade.

WhatToWatch

The Last Movie Hollywood's Biggest Stars Shot Before They Died

From massive blockbusters to movies largely forgotten, here are the final projects from some of Hollywood's biggest names.

Cinemablend

Archie: Cary Grant's complicated masculinity was key to his star power

Like most of the enduring stars of golden age Hollywood, Cary Grant can be reduced rather effectively to a single image. Marilyn Monroe has her white dress. Humphrey Bogart has his trench coat and trilby. And Grant has his debonair suit, his glasses and his immaculate side parting.

The Conversation

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‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ an engrossing achievement by the late, great William Friedkin

Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Clarke star in Showtime’s crisp version of the classic, updated to the present day to allow for more diversity.

Chicago Sun-Times

Amid the Hollywood strikes, Tom Cruise's latest 'Mission: Impossible' reveals what's at stake with AI in movies

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike has been going for over 130 days. Joined by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Hollywood writers are protesting several issues.

The Conversation

Diana gowns sell for more than £1m at US auction

The Legends: Hollywood And Royalty auction, featuring more than 1,400 items, ended on Friday evening.

The Independent UK

20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

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The 20 best films about doomed love – ranked!

As Past Lives, a tale of lost love and roads not taken, hits cinemas, get out the tissues as we recall some of cinema’s most heart-wrenching, tortuous romances

The Guardian - UK

What links octopuses and grain crops? The Saturday quiz

From She-who-must-be-obeyed to Humphrey Bogart, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Iron Man helmet and Harry Potter wands to be sold as Hollywood items auctioned

The Legends: Hollywood And Royalty event in Beverly Hills, California is celebrating 100 years of Warner Bros

Evening Standard

While I wait for Phantom Liberty, I'm replaying Cyberpunk 2077 as a hardboiled detective

Just call me V, Night City PI

GamesRadar

Whoever said print was dying forgot to tell Graydon Carter

AMID the welter of the weekend press, there’s one guaranteed Saturday morning treat.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Whoever said print was dying forgot to tell Air Mail’s Graydon Carter

Air Mail is now big enough to support ‘a large-scale print magazine’ later this year. It will be heading for coffee tables everywhere.

Evening Standard

Movie fans show love for Turner Classic Movies with #SaveTCM

Amid layoffs for Turner Classic Movies, movie lovers have been sharing what the channel, and its never-ending run on classic movies, means to them.

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Double-feature: ‘Noir Bar’ pairs classic films with their perfect cocktail counterparts

Along with the film and beverage lore, author and Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller explains how to stock a home bar and the basics of mixing cocktails.

The Guardian - UK

Bros to Casablanca: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Why not try a delicious and hilarious queer rom-com, or let Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sweep you away in one of the greatest romances of all time

The New Daily

Marlowe: The real crime isn’t the dead body in this soft-focus stab at a familiar genre

Marlowe is set in 1930s Hollywood, where deceptions are a dime a dozen and dark corners hold secrets. But the real crime's the film itself.

Cinemablend

5 Classic Movies You'll Love, Even If Black And White Films Aren't Normally Your Thing

Even if you don't like classic, black and white films, you'll like these movies. I guarantee it.

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The Guardian - US

Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive

To celebrate 100 years, the studio is letting reporters into a protected vault of movie treasures. Just don’t try and find it on Google maps

Evening Standard

Liam Neeson on his 100th film, Marlowe on Sky: ‘where have the years gone? I’ve been blessed’

The Irish actor is appearing in Sky’s new hardboiled detective film, Marlowe , based on the work of Raymond Chandler

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Marlowe’: Liam Neeson suitably world-weary as the tough private eye

Following in the gumshoe footsteps of Bogart, Mitchum and other greats, Irish actor leads outstanding cast in convoluted but enjoyable film noir.

Evening Standard

Gina Lollobrigida: Italian film star once dubbed ‘most beautiful woman in the world’ dies aged 95

She achieved international stardom during the 1950s and ‘60s

The Independent UK

Gina Lollobrigida death: Italian actor who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra dies aged 95

Actor was often described as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’

The Guardian - US

Casablanca at 80: a golden age classic that remains impossible to resist

The involving and affecting romantic thriller is a sterling example of collaboration and how the studio system can often excel

The Conversation

Watching Casablanca on its 80th anniversary, we remain in awe of its simplicity – and profound depth

In November 1942, a romantic drama directed by a Hungarian immigrant and starring an ex-naval officer and an obscure Swedish actress was released. The film began shooting without a finished script.

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