Pauline Collins obituary
Actor who earned an Oscar nomination for portraying Shirley Valentine, a dissatisfied housewife who sets off on a romantic quest in Greece
Film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors
Participants ask for their films not to be shown at IndieChina event, which was due to launch this weekend
Campaign director: Zohran Mamdani’s ideas are indebted to the films of his mother, Mira Nair
The passionately inclusive politics of the newly-elected New York mayor have clear echoes in boundary-breaking movies such as Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding
In Your Dreams review – Netflix dreams up solid sub-Pixar adventure
Echoes of Inside Out and Coco in streamer’s engaging enough caper about a brother and sister journeying through their dreams
The ‘Kelvin-verse’ is history. Where do the Star Trek movies go from here?
One of the new Paramount ownership’s first acts has been to end the Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto series of Trek movies. But surely they can’t stop making them forever?
‘If you’re unhappy with Reform, this is a soothing balm’: Gurinder Chadha on her reboot of A Christmas Carol
She has directed cross-cultural versions of Pride and Prejudice and It’s a Wonderful Life. Now, the film-maker is reworking Dickens’s A Christmas Carol – with an Asian Scrooge
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
While promoting new film Eternity, the actor outlined a specific end-of-life scenario that should be cold, wet and include one cheese shop
‘Why don’t you believe Palestinians?’: the Israeli comedian putting the conflict on stage
In documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, Noam Shuster Eliassi uses humor and honesty to turn a one-woman show into something politically radical
Mickey 17 to Belén: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson star in Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-laden Parasite, while Belén is the moving true story of a woman’s fight against a legal injustice that looks set to sweep this year’s Academy Awards
Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’
Midway through the Broadway run of Waiting for Godot with his Bill & Ted co-star Keanu, the actor-director talks about his new film, Adulthood, overcoming the abuse he endured as a young performer, and why we’re wrong about artificial intelligence
From fiasco to feted: the story of the Dream of Gerontius, the revolutionary music of The Choral
The Choral depicts an amateur choral society in wartime Yorkshire taking on Elgar’s trailblazing and controversial work. But how much does Alan Bennett’s fiction reflect actual fact?
Shirley Valentine gave Pauline Collins a role to match her talent. She seized it with style and glee
The film for which the actor, who has died aged 85, is best-remembered is also that in which she was afforded most airtime. If only more film-makers had managed to channel her warm, sharp charm
Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85
Family pays tribute to actor who was a ‘bright, sparky, witty presence on stage and screen’
Tchéky Karyo obituary
Turkish-French actor who played the dogged, philosophical detective Julien Baptiste in the BBC TV thriller The Missing
Giving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one-star shockers I’d downgrade
A singularly horrendous TV show has crashed the star-rating review economy. But if zero stars is the new normal for critical rage, three films deserve the big 0