Andrew Pulver, The Guardian

Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams said that it had been his intention from the start that a woman should be at the centre of the film.

A Kansas schoolteacher says he has changed his mind about resigning after showing a graphic anti-bullying short film to his history class, which led to vociferous complaints from parents.

Former Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has suggested a boycott of the just-announced Disney film about the celebrated English naturalist Charles Darwin, during an episode of his nationally syndicated radio show.

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Actor-director Tommy Lee Jones said that his new film, The Homesman, set during the mid-19th century western expansion of the United States, was about "American imperialism" across the continent. Speaking to journalists at the Cannes film festival after the world premiere screening, he said: "I won't try to hide the fact that a consideration of American imperialism on the west side of the Mississippi river is the film's underlying theme."