From The Virtues to Raised By Wolves, the Irish actor has a knack for complex roles. As she stars in a new British horror and a TV drama, she discusses working with Shane Meadows and boxing her way on to Ridley Scott’s radarNiamh Algar is sitting in fr…
Dev Patel: ‘The allure of the job is to change’
From Slumdog’s quick-witted hero to a medieval warrior in The Green Knight, Dev Patel has always sought to be an everymanDev Patel was enjoying the ride, but people were saying the horse was too small. It was the winter of 2019. Patel was in Ireland, p…
Sunday with Lesley Manville: ‘Champagne on a Sunday is always a treat’
The actor describes her pleasant laid-back day of rest with kitchen karaoke and friendsHow does Sunday start? With a gasp as I wake up, followed by that relief of remembering I’ve no work commitments. I try to lie in until 9am, then make a fresh ginger…
Review: James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is like The Boys on steroids
The humor is dark, the body count is high, and the finale is just plain bonkers
Stillwater review – thoughtful Matt Damon vehicle hiding inside an action thriller
Damon plays a man trying to extricate his daughter from the French penal system, with help from Call My Agent!’s Camille CottinConstruction worker Bill (Matt Damon) travels from Oklahoma to Marseille to visit his twentysomething daughter Allison (Abiga…
Moonbound review – a mish-mash of folkloric hijinks as kids take trip to the moon
This German-Austrian animation aimed at younger children borrows from vaguely familiar sourcesBased on a well-known German book for children from 1915, this derivative but adequate animated feature fuses together an assortment of vaguely familiar chara…
‘We are pretty bruised’: UK cinemas bounce back from Covid closures
Admissions are almost at pre-pandemic levels despite fears that streaming would wreck businessMoviegoers are flocking to cinemas in numbers not seen since before the pandemic as the return of Hollywood blockbusters to the big screen fuels what theatre …
Netflix is still trying to find its female John Wick with trailer for Kate
Mary Elizabeth Winstead follows up Birds of Prey role with a fierce action thriller.
Mel Brooks announces his first memoir at the age of 95
All About Me!, to be published on 30 November, will cover everything from the film director’s military service to his long comedic partnership with Carl ReinerAt the age of 95, the comedian and film-maker Mel Brooks has written his first memoir. All Ab…
Zola review – pulp-factual viral tweet becomes an icily slick urban thriller
Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells’s viral story of her crazily dangerous 2015 trip to Florida in search of pole-dancing money is brought to the screen with seductive comedyIn 2015, a part-time dancer from Detroit called Aziah “Zola” Wells went viral with a cheeky Tw…