Black Bag review: Soderbergh’s spy flick starring Blanchett and Fassbender beats streaming rivals hands down
Those going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequel
Harold Pinter
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
Written in clear-eyed anger: Harold Pinter’s anti-war poems
Slaughter in Ukraine sent me back to poems Pinter wrote about US-led invasion of Iraq
Patrick Stewart: ‘I had difficult patches... I’d drink alcohol until I passed out’
As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the actor talks about his career
James McAvoy: ‘We can’t define ourselves by our relationship with England’
He came blazing out of Glasgow like a rocket, now he returns to stage as Cyrano
It’s no time to die for Daniel Craig the actor. How to have a post-Bond career
There has long been a myth that the role of James Bond swallows careers whole
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Christopher Plummer never hid his dislike of The Sound of Music
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
I’m Thinking of Ending Things review: Netflix’s brilliant, frustrating, daring Charlie Kaufman film
While there are typically bleak comic diversions, there's an atmosphere of surreal gloom that is very much Kaufman’s own
Sporting Poetry: Seeing far beyond the scoreboard
From George Best to Christy Ring, theirs is an eye that picks up things others do not
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
George MacKay: ‘My influences? Conor McGregor and wallabies’
After his turn in 1917, the actor is tackling the role of iconic Australian outlaw Ned Kelly
Jane Casey: On My Culture Radar
The author on watching Tom Hiddleston on stage, and how Andrew Scott influenced her new novel
Who wants to be a TV game show genius?
My licence fee isn’t paying for The Wall with Danny Dyer – someone else has that pleasure
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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