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View to a kill

Is <i>Series 7</i> a high-minded satire of reality TV — or the usual screen violence tarted up for the arthouse crowd?

Johnny be good

He’s hardly a stranger to class A drugs. But as he takes the lead in a movie about a cocaine baron, Johnny Depp says he has put his ‘years of confusion’ behind him. He talks to…

Too much too young?

At the age of 10 Liv Tyler realised the man she called daddy was not her father. At 14 she started modelling; at 16 she became an actor. Did it all turn her into yet another…

Desert island risks

He had to put on 18kg and he wound up in hospital with a septic knee. Cast Away was tough for Tom Hanks but, he tells Danny Leigh worth it.

The Lars picture show

There’s nothing tame about Lars von Trier. Even his car is brazenly penile and his latest movie is a harrowing musical. Danny Leigh meets the madman of European cinema.

Stone on a roll

As Oliver Stone’s dissection of American football is released on circuit, Danny Leigh discovers it’s impossible to separate the film-maker from his films.

Hot tickets for 2000

Philip French</b> and Danny Leigh preview 15 of the top movies you can look forward to seeing in the next few months.