The 40-year-old actor on living with Frodo, coping with fans and why he loves fatherhoodI grew up in a blue-collar, working-class family in Cedar Rapids in Iowa. My dad worked at the box factory, and my mum worked at the Quaker Oats factory. Eventually…
Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’
Cinema’s classiest actor on being wooed by Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch, playing Bond’s CIA buddy Felix and why he’s fighting for thinkers in an age of vulgarityWith his soulful gravitas, rich vocal tones and understated cool, Jeffrey Wright is…
Welcome to Britain
In 1943, film star Burgess Meredith hosts a U.S. Army training film instructing soldiers departing for service what to expect when they arrive in Britain, exploring the generosity of British people suffering under war time privation, the local pub, dif…
‘I eat greasy fried eggs at least once a week’: Daniel Craig on Bond, being buff and crying at British Gas ads
With his final turn as James Bond in No Time to Die filling cinemas, the actor takes questions from readers and fellow actors about the role, from being smacked around his nether regions to getting over his fear of heightsMost movie stars look tiny up …
Frida. Viva la Vida review – impressionistic dive into Kahlo’s headspace
This unconventional and sometimes indulgent investigation of Frida Kahlo’s psyche via her paintings highlights the key themes of her life and workHere is an intense, almost painfully reverential film about Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist who – as this …
‘I’ve been waiting so long’: 007 fans await first public screening – at midnight
Filmgoers are excited to be among first in world to see 25th Bond film, No Time to Die, in BirminghamFor a film spanning 163 minutes – the longest James Bond movie ever made – it takes serious dedication to watch it at a midweek midnight showing.But th…
Flags, flowers and futurist film: the Jarman award shortlist – in pictures
From supermarket dancers to disembodied oracles, the work of these nominees represent some of the UK’s most exciting artist film-makers Continue reading…
‘Call It’: app takes aim at sexual harassment in the film industry
Exclusive: UK producer Kate Wilson hopes it will force film executives ‘to take their head out of the sand’When she was 24, the film producer Kate Wilson was sexually harassed at work so badly, she left the United States and returned to the UK, at a co…
Tell us what you think of James Bond’s No Time to Die
We would like to hear your thoughts of Daniel Craig’s final film as James Bond and how you have found the cinema experienceSix years since the last Bond film, Daniel Craig returns for the final time in No Time to Die which is released in cinemas on Thu…
No Time to Die review: Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles
The long-awaited 25th outing for Ian Fleming’s superspy is a weird and self-aware epic with audacious surprises up its sleeveThe standard bearer of British soft power is back, in a film yanked from cinemas back in the time of the toilet roll shortage, …