The director’s films have often stirred discontent. With his latest political thriller, Shoshana, set in 1930s Tel Aviv, he knows he must be ready for pushback
Dinard Film Festival 2023: David Holmes’s score is emblematic of a film that is trying to do too much
Michael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of UK’s Covid response portrays Boris Johnson as buffoonish and vain yet essentially well intentioned
The actor dived in the deep end to play a newly deaf drummer in Sound of Metal
‘People are still up for challenging telly,’ says Sky. But ‘chocolate ice-cream’ appeals too
‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan
Winterbottom’s latest is not completely without merit but we deserve more creative satire
Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael
End your film with shocking statistics? No way, the studio told Michael Winterbottom
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders
Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever
Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta
New film ‘Rosie’ focuses on ‘ordinary’ family staying in hotel accommodation
Sex isn’t everything, but it deserves more attention than the titillation it’s often consigned to
The actor says ‘pornographic’ scenes were filmed after she left the ‘London Fields’ set
The most popular ‘arts’ story of 2017 was this history of bad sex scenes
With a background in avant garde theatre, the actress broke big with ‘The Mummy’. Now she plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on Holocaust denier David Irving
Former TV presenter (79) famously adopted child orphan smuggled out of Sarajevo
Brangelina got together on ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ and seemed to finish with ‘By the Sea’
Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition
Kercher from Surrey in the UK was stabbed to death in Italy in November 2007
Lifelong friends Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer make their relationship awkward in a new sitcom, the latest comedy to feature people portraying distorted versions of themselves
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
