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<p>‘Karate Kid: Legends is not too violent. In this movie, when you fight, it’s like dancing’</p>
In Focus

Jackie Chan at 71: ‘Jump off a building? I need a stunt double now’

As a revival of the cult franchise hits cinemas, Louis Chilton speaks to the Hong Kong superstar, the original ‘Karate Kid’ Ralph Macchio and new ‘Kid’ Ben Wang about the legacy of the first film, dangerous stunts, and ageing as an action star

Inside Film

<p>A touch of the Tooch: Stanley Tucci, actor and celebrity foodie</p>
Inside Film

Stanley Tucci’s acting career is stuck in a spiral of mediocrity

One of Hollywood’s most-liked character actors has revelled in a second career as a celebrity foodie – while appearing in a nearly unbroken run of lacklustre films. Louis Chilton asks where Tucci’s career will go from here

<p>Lily Collias in 'Good One'</p>
Inside Film

Cinema’s new trend? The frustrated descendants of the American western

New drama ‘Good One’ follows a father and daughter on a fraught hiking trip in New York’s Catskills. Xan Brooks looks at an emerging sub-genre of films – and the death of a long-held American tradition

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