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THE (SERIOUSLY) ALL-STAR FLICK

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David O Russell, eh? Where’s he been? American Hustle was ages ago. Nine years ago to be exact. He had Joy in 2015, but yeah, it has been a while. Maybe because there were lots of not-nice reports about his on-set behaviour, Hollywood needed to decide whether it was still okay to work with him.

And what did they decide? Well, Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro and, um, Taylor Swift all decided they could be in Amsterdam and still sleep well.

Why, um, Taylor Swift? There’s this scene where she… no, I won’t spoil it.

What? Tell me! Trust me: soon you won’t be able to look at Twitter for five seconds without seeing a meme of it. It’s the most meme-able thing since… well, since ‘The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now, she’s dead.’

Do you want to, you know, explain what it’s about? It’s a whodunnit set in the Thirties. There’s loads of whodunnits right now — See How They Run, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — but not many feature Taylor Swift being…

‘Amsterdam’ opens in cinemas on 7 Oct

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