Six Minutes to Midnight: Who do you think you are kidding, Eddie Izzard?
Not even Judi Dench can save writer and star Izzard’s prewar romp from drab mediocrity
King of Thieves: Three films rolled into a single heist movie
Review: With Michael Caine, Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon, it couldn’t be boring
Black ’47: Brain-twitching Great Irish Famine revenge thriller
Review: Lance Daly’s movie rattles along at the pace of a hungry dog pursuing a healthy rabbit
Anthony Hopkins: ‘I’m happy I’m an alcoholic. It’s a great gift’
Alcoholism and ambition fuelled the actor’s rise
Seven of the best TV shows to watch this week
Anthony Hopkins plays Lear, Gay Byrne takes a trip down memory lane and Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope comes to a friendship-wrecking close
Mary and the Witch’s Flower review: We are not in Hogwarts anymore, Toto
This tale of spells and broomsticks in the Studio Ghibli spirit will sweep you away
‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’
Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry
Game of Thrones, episode 2: Bloody, brutal and lovely to watch
Who can you trust these days in war-torn, backstabbing, deeply divided Westeros?
Ozark review: A show with plenty of ideas, none of them original
Jason Bateman plays a straitlaced man who turns to crime in desperate times. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before ...
The Sense of an Ending review: A smart piece of translation
Julian Barnes’s dryly comic Booker winner is nimbly adapted to suit the demands of mainstream cinema
Television: Undercover in London, behind bars in Dublin
Review: ‘London Spy’, ‘The Joy’, ‘Ballyfin’, ‘Downton Abbey’
Get Santa review: Santy in the slammer
Jim Broadbent stars as Santa Claus in this somewhat strange holiday kids movie
‘Downton Abbey’ star Hugh Bonneville on working with Paddington
Tara Brady talks to the English actor about going from lord of the manor to friend of the bear
Philomena stars nominated for British Independent Film awards
Saoirse Ronan is also shortlisted for the Best Actress awards in London next month
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