Canadian director Justin McConnell has created a self-indulgent selfie-fest – I’d pass on his fantasy horror too Justin McConnell is a Canadian indie director who has here created what amounts to a tiring and self-indulgent video diary of the last five years as he tries to get his passion project made (a fantasy horror called Lifechanger). It is interspersed with what feels like hundreds of thousands of interviews with beaming film people, some very famous (such as Paul Schrader and Guillermo Del Toro), some not so famous, but all giving us their well-meant platitudes about getting your films made by following your dream and realising that it’s all about storytelling. Clapboard Jungle suffers from a weird mix of information overload and a lack of actual, usable information that might be of assistance to film-makers or of interest to film audiences. To an extraordinary degree, this film is packed with endless selfie shots of McConnell’s face as – zonked with stress or anxiety or disappointment – he trudges through airport department lounges on his way to festivals, placidly listens to music on a bus, or takes calls from producers and distributors passing on his project.

Noah Wyle and Julianna Margulies will also be at the virtual reunion

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Amusing song also takes aim at TikTok and Zoom

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Actor says he took ‘a moment of consideration’

Smith suggested whoever buys it could ‘simply own a film that nobody ever sees but them’

The YouTuber has been accused of sexually assaulting the TikTok star, but says the claims are false.

Zellweger’s casting was initially met with derision

The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab chooses the best films to have ever won Hollywood's most prestigious award

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Actor says he took ‘a moment of consideration’

‘It’s very important to distinguish what’s real in one’s own life,’ actor said

Former Busted musician was briefly involved with the Church following a 2008 rehab stint

Sleeping sickness, strange behaviour and mass hysteria ... a neurologist makes sense of ‘psychosomatic’ illness

Actor described her ‘painful’ four years on the show

The singer has re-recorded her 2008 track for new album Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

“Am I the only person who thinks that #TooClose is cobblers?”

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Pop star’s comments come amid sustained interest in her court-appointed conservatorship

Album has climbed the charts overnight

Ludwig Ahgren has more than 282,000 paying subscribers after a month-long Twitch ‘subathon‘.

With lockdown restrictions slowly lifting, Roisin O’Connor picks some of the highlights of forthcoming exhibitions

Power is celebrated for his short stories, and his debut novel, about creative theft and Russian intrigue, is full of fine writing

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In docuseries My Love: Six Stories of True Love, film-makers from across the world capture the lives of couples who have found a way to make it work In Spain, an elderly husband gently lifts his wife out of bed in the morning. In the US, a couple sits on a lawn at their town’s Fourth of July celebration, gazing at the fireworks display. In Brazil, a woman wakes her partner and wishes her a happy 65th birthday while peppering her with kisses. It’s long-lasting “happily ever after” that many of us dream of, and it’s explored with detail and diversity in Netflix docuseries My Love: Six Stories of True Love. Based on Mo-young Jin’s My Love, Don’t Cross That River, it’s a composition of six international love stories examining the enduring vitality of love, juxtaposed against the melancholy of ageing and past hardship. Over the course of a year, the couples’ lives and love were documented as well as their tribulations and declining health. All pairs featured have been together for over 40 years, and despite living in different countries, demonstrate striking similitudes.

Skaters, dancers, hustlers, boxers … Swiss photographer Willy Spiller prowled the streets of the Big Apple from 1977 and 1985, capturing characters from all walks of life

A new library of psychological thrillers, sci-fi horrors and wacky comedies to tear into

Joe Lycett introduces a dozen fresh amateur tailors. Plus: Ice-T’s true crime series. Here’s what to watch this evening

She went from Leicester to Los Angeles – and is now bound for outer space. But Intergalactic, which was filmed in Manchester, has made the British star want to return home I can’t tell if the pained expression on Parminder Nagra’s face is because of the bad Zoom connection or the words I can’t help blurting out the moment she appears on my screen. She’s sitting at a table in her home in Los Angeles, the California sun streaming through sash windows into a sitting room dotted with keepsakes from her many films, and all I can think to say is: “I can’t believe I’m talking to Jess from

Sharon Johal says she faced taunts and mockery of her Indian background from other castmates.

‘It’s happening on all of the streaming services’

The Young Vic and Royal Court are rethinking their work practices to unpick centuries of ingrained attitudes – and achieve ‘the miracle of equality’ The Young Vic and Royal Court theatres have entered into a pioneering consultation process that aims to identify and root out systemic racism from their venues. The artistic directors of both London institutions have signed up to a two-year partnership with the social enterprise Sour Lemons that will interrogate the internal structures that uphold institutional racism, raise awareness and accountability, and listen to staff’s experiences of racism inside the buildings. It's going to be painful and slow

‘Usually that happens when I’ve killed off somebody that’s been around for a while’

Justine Paradise says alleged assault, which Paul has denied, happened in 2019 at Paul’s residence

Pike had earned praise from judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan

Ben Pearson was a traffic cop, attending several fatalities every week. But when his mother died and he returned to work too soon, his grief overwhelmed him. He talks to David Barnett about his new book, and how the force deals with mental health problems

The special will be available to stream for a 30-day window beginning on 17 April

Denise Gough and Emily Watson star in a drama that rakes over a full suite of middle-class anxieties, from sex and class to parenting and race

This year’s awards season has officially reached its final stages

The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab chooses the best films to have ever won Hollywood's most prestigious award

With less than a month left until the 2021 Academy Awards, Clémence Michallon looks at roles that were the results of an arduous process – but made Oscars history

Holt made mesmerising works that filtered stars and vanished in the desert heat. But land art was seen as a male preserve. A new exhibition redresses the balance The story of land art is generally believed to be a tale of white men in weathered denim descending on what they thought of as the empty canvas of the American west in the 1960s with bulldozers and big ideas to make their work. But what of the women who were also making their mark? “Today, land art appears as an almost perfect distillation of the art world’s history of male privilege, with its conviction that man is entitled to space to roam, to make his mark,” critic Megan O’Grady wrote in 2018. “It is one of the contemporary art movements most urgently in need of reconsideration.” A forthcoming exhibition at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, centred on the work of the late Nancy Holt, hopes to redress that balance. The Irish venue launches its post-lockdown programming with

"We think audiences will continue to swoon for this show," the streaming giant says.

Fans can expect three more seasons of the salacious period drama

The former England and Manchester Utd star will mentor young players for the series Save Our Squad.

This documentary about the celebrated folklorist also takes a leisurely look at the working methods of the artists he reveres There’s an unmistakable slow-cinema vibe to this scrupulously observational documentary, which seems somehow to go on for weeks despite its 100-minute running time. The ostensible subject matter is

Beyond his work, little is known about the real man behind the legendary – and many say homosexual – painter, but a new Amazon Prime show starring Poldark’s Aidan Turner is aiming to change that. A little artistic license helps, its cast and creators tell Louis Chilton

The Emerald Isle has been making the world laugh for forever, but a recent wave of comedies have found a new level of success. Ellie Harrison meets the stars behind them, including Sharon Horgan and Domhnall Gleeson, to find out why Ireland does dark humour best 

The director dedicated the film to his daughter, Ida, who died four days into filming.

‘Behind the cars. Now! Now!’ shouted someone off-camera

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The YouTuber has not yet commented on allegations from Paradise, a TikTok star.

Episode will air on Wednesday night 14 April

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