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Was Thatcher right to ban ‘video nasties’?
I binged Zombie Flesh Eaters and Slaughtered Vomit Dolls to find out

The ‘obscene’ movies once banned in the UK are now mostly freely available. Are these tales of cannibals and the undead antiquated schlock?

Picks of the week

Back to the Future at 40
‘The film wouldn’t even be made today’

Maxine Peake
‘I have a healthy balance of inferiority complex and slightly prickly ego’

‘I have sympathy for Elon Musk’
Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead

Austin Powers? The Godfather?
Our writers on the franchises they would like to revive

Can the new Fast and Furious movie really ‘reunite’ Vin Diesel and Paul Walker?

Stuart Heritage

Michael Madsen
Tarantino unlocked his brooding charisma

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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

The Shrouds
David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief

Elaborate necrophiliac meditation on loss and longing stars Vincent Cassel as an oncologist who has founded a restaurant with a hi-tech cemetery attached

This week's reviews

Jurassic World Rebirth
Scarlett Johansson runs show as near-extinct franchise roars back to life

Scarlett Johansson runs show as near-extinct franchise roars back to life

Hot Milk
Fiona Shaw a fierce fly in simmering erotic soup

Fiona Shaw a fierce fly in simmering erotic soup

Monsters of California
Three friends search for a missing father in this sci-fi slacker comedy

Three friends search for a missing father in this sci-fi slacker comedy

Exodus
Broadside against Erdoğan’s Turkey takes the multi-narrative route

Broadside against Erdoğan’s Turkey takes the multi-narrative route

Jungle Trouble
Utterly charmless kiddie cartoon