Andor season 2 review: Irish actors shine in taut Star Wars prestige TV
Television: Disney was slightly off kilter with season 1 but is back on course with latest addition
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Star Wars’ Andor season two is here. Here is a recap of season one
Self-centred lone wolf protagonist develops sympathy for the rebellion while taking care of business for volatile spymaster Luthen Rael
Val Kilmer, Top Gun and Batman star, dies aged 65
Actor received critical acclaim for portrayal of musician Jim Morrison in 1991 film The Doors
Captain America: Brave New World – Harrison Ford has great fun as he insists it’s just a movie about ‘guys in suits who can fly’
‘I always want to be involved with people who are ambitious,’ says veteran actor
Jedis were once a seasoning, like salt. We liked the salt, and now Disney is serving us big bowls of salt
The Acolyte, Disney’s emotionally and visually flat new Star Wars spin-off, needs to stop with all the confusing lightsabre fights
Disney wins out in historic boardroom battle
Major investors Vanguard and BlackRock among those who backed Disney for control against activist investor Trian Partners
The Movie Quiz: How many films has George Lucas directed outside the Star Wars universe?
Plus: What was the last film for which Meryl Streep gained an Oscar nomination?
Young people might own a house now if they hadn’t watched so many Star Wars spin-offs
Patrick Freyne: A year doesn’t pass without a Star War being beamed to our eyeballs. This week, with Ahsoka, it’s Rosario Dawson’s turn
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
Al Pacino: ‘The Godfather gave me a new identity that was hard to cope with’
Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone
Christopher Walken: ‘I’m not disturbed. I pay my bills. I’ve been married for 55 years...’
In 1964, a nightclub dancer named Ronnie Walken changed his name to Christopher
Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story
Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away
Cannes film festival 2021: Irish-produced movie secures place in prestigious Directors’ Fortnight
Element Pictures’ The Souvenir Part II stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton
Ewan McGregor: I’ve been sober a long time. Addiction is part of my life
The actor has drawn on his experience of addiction to portray the fashion designer Halston
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
Maureen Dowd: Hollywood’s bleak conveyor belt obscures the dream factory
This year’s Oscar contenders are less about escapism and more about our sad reality
Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse dies aged 85
Prowse won Vader role due to his physique but part was voiced by James Earl Jones
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is a hoot – for children and adults
Disney+ tempts back fans with precision-tooled chuckles. Could this be a New Hope?
Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘Dads changing diapers is still somehow revolutionary’
The actor has made a film about fathers – including her own, the Hollywood director Ron
The Mandalorian does an excellent job of living up to expectations
The new Disney+ show combines tight action with the dinginess of the original Star Wars
Disney cuts lesbian kiss from Star Wars in Singapore
Sex between men illegal in Singapore, punishable by prison but law does not apply to women
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – For fans, there are things to love in this film
It has a good baddie, spectacular battles and the outstanding Adam Driver
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker review. It’s unworthy of the word ‘cinema’
This isn’t a proper film – just a nondescript, boring component in the Star Wars machine
Star Wars: Every movie ranked – including The Rise of Skywalker
As Episode IX arrives, how does it stack up against the other 10 films in the saga?
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – ‘It’s a war to do a movie like this’
JJ Abrams, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac on making Episode IX
Baby Yoda: the charismatic floppy-eared one will surely be the next Bond
Patrick Freyne: A list of the most notable Star Wars non-humans from a galaxy far, far away
Star Wars: The Mandalorian is just a spaghetti western in space
The Disney+ spin-off loses its building blocks’ sense of wonder on its way to the screen
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – final trailer released
Hamill and Fisher feature in film with tag line ‘The saga will end. The story lives forever’
Apocalypse Now returns to cinemas, minus the Playboy Bunnies
Francis Ford Coppola’s disaster-struck Vietnam epic has had yet another recut
If The Great Escape were made today, Twitter would go berserk
Re-released this week, the ‘absolute rubbish’ film is one of the most entertaining movies ever
Robert Rodriguez: ‘I don’t live in Hollywood. There’s nobody to tell me I’m doing it wrong’
Alita: Battle Angel director on his guerilla approach to making the long-awaited anime film
Toy spin-offs aren’t child’s play for content makers
Media & Marketing: Licensed products triumph in the aisles, but not all stories lead to merchandising empires
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed
Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics
Remake ‘The Last Jedi’? You’d really have to be a nutter
Do not judge 'Star Wars' fans by this stupid campaign. Not all of them have lost the plot
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