Dominic Cooper: ‘Working with ex-girlfriends? What's the alternative? Sulk in a corner?’

How he nearly didn’t go for Mamma Mia! and why we need more women on film sets

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun

Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun

Eight of the best TV shows this week

Ruth Negga returns in Preacher. UK grime sensation Big Narstie gets his own show

Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

The Harry Potter ‘Big Seven’ – Where are they now?

Potter gave some young actors a leg-up, but it created few genuine stars. Where did the broomsticks take the ones JK Rowling called ‘The Big Seven’?

Oscar nomination for Ruth Negga: ‘I became an actor to hide’

The quiet Irish actor may be on the cusp of mega-stardom but she hasn’t lost sight of her craft

Ruth Negga: ‘There aren’t many black people on film sets’

The actor, who is an early Oscar tip for Loving and also stars in the ‘entrancing’ Iona, talks about the ‘white Oscars’ controversy and her desire to move home

Dracula Untold review: you'll be Vlad you didn't

There will be Vlad: an audience with young Dracula in Antrim

The Northern Irish set of Universal’s latest take on a horror legend seems to hark back more to a place called Westeros than to 15th-century Romania

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Television: Light on their feet – plus-size dancers who soar above their limitations

It could have turned into a cruel, fat-shaming contest, but Channel 4’s ‘Big Ballet’ treated its subjects with a light touch

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