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<p>Éanna Hardwicke by Pip. Styling: Tom O’Dell. Grooming: Alexis Day.</p>
interview

Éanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

The Irish rising star tells Tom Murray about playing another famous Cork man in a film about a notorious moment in World Cup history, the perils of acting opposite one of his heroes, Steve Coogan, and the life-changing impact of ‘Normal People’

<p>Kate Hudson has been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Song Sung Blue</p>
Comment

In defence of Kate Hudson’s shocking Oscar nomination

<p>Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel jump and grin and siiiiing in the artwork for Disney’s ‘High School Musical’</p>
Flashbacks

12-year-old girls were never the same after High School Musical

<p>Kristen Stewart at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Chronology of Water’ this month</p>
Inside Film

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is pretentious but magnificent

Inside Film

<p>Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’</p>
Inside Film

How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective world views – but it’d be too easy to claim they’ve simply misunderstood the text, writes Xan Brooks
<p>Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’</p>
Inside Film

Timothée Supreme: How Chalamet finally escaped boy-next-door purgatory

The ‘Dune’ star’s new, Golden Globe-winning role as ping-pong prodigy Marty Mauser is a watershed moment for an actor whose ascendant career has not been without its teething issues, writes Xan Brooks

Reviews

<p>Lee Byung Hun in Park Chan Wook’s ‘No Other Choice’</p>
Reviews

The director of Oldboy has made a brutal and hilarious murder thriller

<p>Claire Foy in ‘H Is for Hawk’</p>
Reviews

Claire Foy is remarkably grief-stricken in the tender H Is for Hawk

<p>Chris Pratt in ‘Mercy’</p>
Reviews

AI decides Chris Pratt’s fate in the baffling, dismal Mercy

<p>Paul Mescal in Oliver Hermanus’s ‘The History of Sound’</p>
Reviews

Paul Mescal’s gay drama The History of Sound is severely anticlimactic

<p>Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in ‘The Rip’</p>
Reviews

What were Ben Affleck and Matt Damon thinking with charmless The Rip?

<p>Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in ‘Rental Family’</p>
Reviews

Brendan Fraser’s treacly Rental Family doesn’t ask difficult questions

<p>Bone appetite: Jack O'Connell plays a sinister cult leader in ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’</p>
Reviews

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple goes even further than its predecessor

<p>Jessie Buckley in ‘Hamnet’</p>
Reviews

Oscar-primed Hamnet isn’t as manipulative as its critics claim

<p>Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in ‘Rental Family’</p>
Reviews

Brendan Fraser’s treacly Rental Family doesn’t ask difficult questions

<p>Bone appetite: Jack O'Connell plays a sinister cult leader in ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’</p>
Reviews

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple goes even further than its predecessor

<p>Jessie Buckley in ‘Hamnet’</p>
Reviews

Oscar-primed Hamnet isn’t as manipulative as its critics claim

Interviews

<p>‘I thought that I would live the rest of my life making movies for a small minority of people in Korea’</p>
Interview

Oldboy’s Park Chan Wook: ‘Korean film is in a state of great danger’

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>
Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>
Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

‘You have to naturally be as tough as old boots to be in the game this long’
Interview

Pierce Brosnan: ‘I’m 72 – I can feel the tick of time moving on for me’

<p>‘Sentimental Value’ director Joachim Trier with his stars Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård</p>
Interview

Stellan Skarsgård and the cast of Sentimental Value on the year’s most emotional film

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>
Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

<p>‘I think people are missing the relationships they had with ER, or 24, or NYPD Blue. It was something you could rely on’</p>
Interview

Kiefer Sutherland: ‘After 24, there weren’t opportunities staring me in the face’

<p>Delroy Lindo: 'Sinners is telling the larger story of what happens when a community is violated'</p>
Interview

Delroy Lindo: ‘I get tired of my own voice – but never of talking about Sinners’

Features

<p>Paying homage: Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’</p>
In Focus

How Nouvelle Vague recaptures Breathless and its role in a revolution

<p>‘K-Pop?’: DiCaprio in his viral moment at the 2026 Golden Globes</p>
Comment

DiCaprio’s ‘personality reveal’ wasn’t the mask-slip everybody thinks

<p>Jessie Buckley and Joe Alwyn in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’</p>
Comment

Ignore the awards – Hamnet is manipulative Shakespeare fan fiction

<p>Rumoured new Bond Callum Turner in a very 007 get-up at a film premiere last August</p>
Comment

‘New Bond’ Callum Turner is very believable casting for 007

News

Culture

Delroy Lindo reveals sweet way son told him about Oscar nomination

News

2026 Oscar nominations in full

Film

The biggest snubs and surprises in this year’s Oscar nominations

<p>Scarlett Johansson is now the second highest-grossing movie star of all time</p>
News

Scarlett Johansson joins Hollywood stars for anti-AI campaign

<p>Michael B. Jordan earned his first Oscar nod for Best Lead Actor for his performance in ‘Sinners’</p>
News

Sinners makes Oscars history with record number of nominations

<p>Thursday's hearing followed this week's release of thousands of pages of documents, including Lively's claim that Baldoni pressured her unnecessarily to simulate nudity during a film scene in which her character gave birth in a hospital.</p>
News

Justin Baldoni urges judge to toss Blake Lively lawsuit

<p>Scarlett Johansson is now the second highest-grossing movie star of all time</p>
News

Scarlett Johansson joins Hollywood stars for anti-AI campaign

<p>Michael B. Jordan earned his first Oscar nod for Best Lead Actor for his performance in ‘Sinners’</p>
News

Sinners makes Oscars history with record number of nominations

<p>Thursday's hearing followed this week's release of thousands of pages of documents, including Lively's claim that Baldoni pressured her unnecessarily to simulate nudity during a film scene in which her character gave birth in a hospital.</p>
News

Justin Baldoni urges judge to toss Blake Lively lawsuit

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