The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Clint Eastwood
Show Clint Eastwood some respect. His new film Juror #2 is no dud
The way Warner Bros has handled the veteran star’s 40th film as director is in keeping with Hollywood studios’ new approach to the movie economy
The Movie Quiz: What three Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Plus: What was the first film Clint Eastwood directed in which he did not act?
Bruce Willis: A chilling anecdote lays bare the illness that ended his long and successful career
The actor’s increasingly patchy career has been cut short by the disorder aphasia
Oscars: The last 22 best picture winners – in order of greatness
Where does this year’s winner, CODA, sit in our ranking of 21st-century Oscar winners?
The Story of Film: A New Generation – there’s hope for cinema yet
Mark Cousins offers an optimistic view of the contemporary cinema landscape
Cry Macho: Clint the old cowboy sings one more swansong
The 91-year-old's gift for expressing everything by doing almost nothing gets better with age
Clint Eastwood wins $6m in damages in CBD lawsuit
Dirty Harry actor and director was falsely claimed to have endorsed cannabidiol products
When Pelé, Stallone, and Ipswich Town took on the Nazis at the beautiful game
Escape to Victory a cult classic despite Stallone wanting the goalie to score winner
Arrested Development star Jessica Walter dies aged 80
Emmy-winning actor was famous for her role as family matriarch Lucille Bluth
Hoosiers: True story of underdog basketball team still charms
Sincere storytelling paired Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper at height of their powers
Maureen Dowd: Trump’s taste for violence bloodies Congress
Criminal charges would be welcome after craven Republicans refused to convict him
Different Strokes: Rory McIlroy’s issues plane to see as he looks to sharpen game
Amateurs get boot at Pebble; Twitter Twaddle; On this Day; In the Bag; Know the Rules
A Christmas Story never took off here, but its time will come
Some US films fail to travel – Bob Clark’s 1983 comedy, however, is worth your attention
Suspected jihadist goes on trial in Paris over train attack foiled by US tourists
Ayoub El Khazzani faces terror charges for incident that ‘could have killed 300 people’
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Sporting upsets: Shadow of ‘Susie’ still lingers over seismic rugby shock
1995 Rugby World Cup final: South Africa 15 New Zealand 12 (aet)
Trusting the advice of experts and politicians amid this pandemic
Hague Letter: ‘I needed to know before I took a potentially lethal risk, is it safe?’
Bad Boys for Life review: The funny bits are funny. The serious bits are even funnier
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in a noisy, inconsequential violent romp
Clint Eastwood’s film tells a lie, but shows us the true Clint
In the film, a real-life female journalist sleeps with a source. There’s no evidence it happened
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
RWC moments: Brave Blossoms bloom in Brighton
Japan beat South Africa in 2015 in the biggest shock in Rugby World Cup history
How can you spot a deepfake, and if you can’t is that a problem?
A harmless doctored video of Bill Hader becoming Tom Cruise has triggered full-on panic
Darragh Ó Sé: If Tyrone put as much into football as the dark arts, they'd be some team
Dublin are awesome but Kerry's young players will still be expected to perform against them
Whatever happened to the wonderful Rocky Elsom?
It is a decade since the flanker inspired Leinster to a first Heineken Cup triumph
Ironman: How a simple box of papers turned into a billion-dollar industry
A legal battle every bit as gruelling as the races themselves has ensued over 40 years
The Mule: Clint Eastwood snarls and frowns through another geriatric meltdown
Review: The actor is unsure how to play a nonagenarian transporting drugs for cartels
Sondra Locke: toxic relationship with Clint Eastwood defined talented actor
Locke, an excellent performer and serious-minded director, became trapped by her involvement with Eastwood and bitter legal disputes
Sondra Locke, Oscar-nominated actor, dies aged 74
Locke, who had turbulent relationship with Clint Eastwood, died on November 3rd after battle with cancer
Siya Kolisi and South Africa speaking to the hope of 1995
Mandela didn’t lead South African rugby to the mountain top, he gave a glimpse of it
‘A Star Is Born’: Bradley Cooper isn’t really into talking to me
In his first film as director the star wrangles with the celebrity industrial complex. So you can imagine how this interview goes
Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?
Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years
Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston
Donald Clarke on the film’s enduring legacy, literary roots and Willis’s breakout role
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts: The feminist western you need to see
Review: A vicious, Sergio Leone-style tale of one woman’s revenge on a rapist
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