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<p>Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel jump and grin and siiiiing in the artwork for Disney’s ‘High School Musical’</p>

Flashbacks

12-year-old girls were never the same after High School Musical

Kenny Ortega’s all-singing tween extravaganza was critically sniffed at upon its 2006 release – but the reverberations of ‘High School Musical’ are still being felt in Hollywood today, argues Lydia Spencer-Elliott

<p>Kristen Stewart at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Chronology of Water’ this month</p>

Inside Film

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is pretentious but magnificent

<p>‘I thought that I would live the rest of my life making movies for a small minority of people in Korea’</p>

Interview

Oldboy’s Park Chan Wook: ‘Korean film is in a state of great danger’

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>

Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

Inside Film

<p>Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’</p>

Inside Film

How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective world views – but it’d be too easy to claim they’ve simply misunderstood the text, writes Xan Brooks

Inside Film

Timothée Supreme: How Chalamet finally escaped boy-next-door purgatory

The ‘Dune’ star’s new, Golden Globe-winning role as ping-pong prodigy Marty Mauser is a watershed moment for an actor whose ascendant career has not been without its teething issues, writes Xan Brooks