Warwick Davis’s wife died as hospital planned to discharge her, inquest finds
Actor and dwarfism charity founder Samantha Davis suffered cardiac arrest after surgery complications, coroner concludes
Super troupers! How do stars of long-running hits from Mamma Mia! to The Lion King keep the pizzazz pumping?
Can you imagine starring in Mamma Mia! for 10 years? Or The Lion King for 17? Or Blood Brothers for 26? Theatre’s epic endurance performers reveal how they keep the magic alive night after night
Eddington: first trailer released for Ari Aster’s Covid-set, Cannes-bound comedy western
Much-anticipated black comedy western from Midsommar director stars Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal
How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’
‘I wanted to do an Australian Mike Leigh film. I was convinced it was terrible – but we showed it at Cannes and they went crazy. Audiences had never seen a character like that treated sympathetically’
Hanks had Castaway, De Niro Raging Bull, now Alec Baldwin reveals he lost 10kg for Blue Jasmine
The great revelation from the finale of The Baldwins was that the actor had looked moderately slimmer for a bit part in 2013 and plans get back into that shape
Abortion Dream Team review – dynamic study of activists resisting Poland’s near-total ban
Karolina Domagalska’s film follows the tireless work of an activist group founded to battle the country’s legislation against reproductive rights
The Rock to co-author true crime book about Hawaii mob boss to be adapted by Martin Scorsese
Dwayne Johnson is working with investigative journalist Nick Bilton on the project, with a film in the pipeline starring Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio
Nicky Katt, Dazed and Confused and School of Rock actor, dies aged 54
‘Nicky was an absolute joy on and off camera’ said director Robert Rodriguez, among those including Richard Linklater paying tribute to the late actor
Kaiju No 8: Mission Recon review – the fury and rawness of battle as monsters keep coming
A high school-style training academy is the setting for Tomomi Kamiya and Shigeyuki Miya’s punky anime tale of a volunteer army’s battle against the Godzilla-like kaiju
‘Beautifully, awfully funny’: why Withnail and I is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of comfort movies is a pick for Bruce Robinson’s cult British comedy
Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death
Conti plays twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of the other’s murder, in this dreamy but frustrating fable
The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives
Paweł Łoziński’s documentary collects conversations with passers-by he talks to from the window of his Warsaw flat
‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness
Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a prescient gem
Mickey Rourke ejected from Big Brother house over ‘unacceptable behaviour’
Actor, 72, understood to have used behaviour and language considered threatening against housemate Chris Hughes
Tony Nicholls obituary
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