What kind of Christmas songs are Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland? Funny you should ask
It’s a swizz: both belong to a large class of winter songs that have been shuffled cynically on to the Christmas playlist
Frank Capra
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Paddington 2 the ‘Greatest Film Ever’? Giving any film that tag is not worth the effort
Donald Clarke: Rating what movie is best is fun, but a waste of intellectual energy
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
No more sex scenes: Film-makers advised to revert to chaste style of golden era
There’s a touch of pearl-clutching in report aimed at keeping ‘intimacy’ safe in the pandemic
Irresistible: Soft-focus political satire in small-town America
Review: Jon Stewart directs a witty and neatly drawn look at politics and big money
Banzai Japan! A country wraps the world in its unique embrace
Tournament sometimes dwarfed by the scale and beautiful strangeness of its host country
Trial over diet drug that led to deaths of ‘up to 2,000’ begins in France
Servier accused of knowingly marketing Mediator despite apparent heart and lungs hazard
Of course Darth Vader voted for Trump. Get over it, libs
Donald Clarke: All the Friends voted Democrat, right? No wonder the party is in trouble
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Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins (70), who shared the screen with Newman and Pacino, is finally ready for the limelight
Tom Hanks: The most famous man we know nothing about
The actor has written a book of short stories. Do they contain any clues to the real man?
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Marina Hyde: José Mourinho fast becoming much ado about nothing
The Chelsea manager is hardly the leading player in a Shakespearean tragedy
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