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Review: The new Ted Bundy film starring Zac Efron feels like high-end telly

The smartest dumb show on TV that everybody will be talking about

The zippy saga about filthy-rich white guys is an antidote to self-serious antihero dramas

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

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Roma, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Dumplin’, The Innocent Man, Springsteen on Broadway

Nicolas Roeg: the director who took the familiar and made it strange

Few directors have made so many films that touch on the status of masterpiece

Mile 22: Mark Wahlberg in an underwhelming glob of generic pulp

Review: The fight scenes are bruising and jaw-rattling. The rest of the film in rubbish

‘U2 thought they were getting Grease. I gave them Apocalypse Now’

Aoife McArdle has made her name with videos for Bryan Ferry and U2. Her debut feature, ‘Kissing Candice’, was made for a much lower budget, and yet is far more challenging

Eight of the best TV shows to watch this week

‘Billions’ returns, Idris Elba’s new comedy series debuts and Irish couple’s wedding dilemmas

Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’

Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel

Louis CK and Hollywood’s canon of creeps

After Weinstein was outed, I made a list of every man who had harassed or assaulted me

Louis CK courts critical praise and controversy in Toronto

‘I don’t think that everybody has to come to a consensus that it’s okay’, he says of his new film, ‘I Love You, Daddy’

Aisling Bea: ‘In terms of comedy, I’m not Heston Blumenthal. I’m like ‘chips and a side’’

Stand-up comedy, acting in ‘The Fall’, writing her own show and now team leader on ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ panel show – Kildare woman Aisling Bea has a lot on

Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers

Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities

Penguins of Madagascar review: cracking jokes keep these birdbrains flying high

Birds of little brain still manage to fly fairly high in funny sequel

Bill Hader: “What I liked about the script was that he has lots of problems, but being gay isn’t one of them”

The Saturday Night Live veteran on comic timing, his acclaimed dramatic turn in ‘The Skeleton Twins’ - and what it was like to work with Justin Beiber

Secret service chief’s sacking had nothing to do with gender

Julia Pierson withheld crucial information and papered over fiascos at a vital agency

Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”

Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...

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