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<p>‘The film’s obviously gonna push the buttons of a certain pocket of people’: ‘Pillion’ actors Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling</p>

In Focus

Inside Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s very kinky romcom: ‘People can’t believe the BBC funded it’

Nothing else is quite like ‘Pillion’, a sub-dom romance as sexually transgressive as it is heartwarming. Adam White speaks to its two leading men and their director Harry Lighton about raunch, love scenes and prosthetic appendages

<p>Ben Foster: 'I become very obsessive on a subject and want to go as far as I can'</p>

Interview

Christy’s Ben Foster: ‘Sydney Sweeney is in a unique position. And she’s handling it incredibly well’

<p>The AI critic is an irksome presence, flooding the zone with his mediocre critiques, constantly trawling for clicks and likes</p>

Inside Film

Film critics are great because they’re flawed. AI critics are nothing

Tig Notaro: 'You could feel the sold-out audience along for the ride through the funniest moments and the most devastating moments, and that just put Andrea at ease'

Interview

Tig Notaro: ‘Don’t wait for that diagnosis to turn things around’

Inside Film

<p>And starring as himself: George Clooney is Jay Kelly in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

Inside Film

George Clooney basically plays himself in Jay Kelly, and it’s wildly unconvincing

Noah Baumbach’s new comedy drama ‘Jay Kelly’ casts Clooney as a wealthy, handsome, pampered and indulged A-lister, and like many films in which fake stars opine about the miseries of celebrity, it quickly wears out its welcome, writes Xan Brooks

<p>Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s new psychodrama ‘Die My Love’</p>

Inside Film

How America stole our best international directors – and neutered them

The psychodrama ‘Die My Love’, starring Jennifer Lawrence, is the latest trip to the US for Scottish director Lynne Ramsay. But, like Pedro Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai before her, leaving her homeland has slightly sanded off her edges, argues Xan Brooks