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Hijack: An excellent showcase for Idris Elba - shame about the angry Irishmen
Television: The real-time thriller on Apple TV+ draws on many influences to conjure that is moslty engaging, though predictable
Extraction 2: This barely recycled snuff trash really makes you think (no, of course it doesn’t)
Chris Hemsworth plays hard-boiled mercenary Tyler Rake in a loud, empty action flick that gets by on undeniable chutzpah
Luther: The Fallen Sun – The best James Bond we never had just about holds your attention
Idris Elba’s detective arrives at Netflix in a film about a global serial killer that is as distasteful as it is silly
Idris Elba on Nelson Mandela, Sonic the Hedgehog – but absolutely not 007
From Finding Dory to Zootopia to Cats: The legendary actor takes on the role of Knuckles
World Cup 2022 draw: England could face Scotland or Wales
Former champions Spain and Germany to meet in the group stage
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish man
People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed
The Suicide Squad: Franchise gets welcome jolt of mad energy
Review: James Gunn’s comic-strip fantasy delivers on its own terms
Idris Elba: ‘Man, talk about work as therapy. I would break down on set’
The actor on fighting for his big break, and why acting helped him out of a ‘dark, weird junction’
The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer
Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+
Face spasms, thunderclap headaches, sweating and tears: Inside the League of Fire
Chilli-eating contestants step up for pain and anguish beyond what most of us can imagine
Remember when Ian Botham was going to be ‘the next James Bond’?
Donald Clarke: For 60 years we have been living with Next James Bond speculation
‘Challenging and difficult’: Dwayne Johnson and family test positive for Covid-19
The actor known as ‘The Rock’ is urging people to wear a mask to stop coronavirus spreading
Mel Gibson hospitalised after contracting coronavirus in April
The actor spent a week in hospital after contracting Covid-19
Ghana offering African Americans the chance to move to Africa
Ghanaian politicians to renew their call-outs to people of African descent to ‘come home’
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Will the fur fly when Cats finally hits our screens?
Donald Clarke: The online kerfuffle should do Tom Hooper’s project no harm
Hobbs & Shaw: Fast & Furious needs to get back to basics
Review: Neither Johnson nor Statham has much to work with, but the banter is awful
Cats trailer: It's like if celebrities became deformed mutant cats but were still kind of sexy
Patrick Freyne: A bunch of cats in an alleyway is not remotely as magical as this film depicts
Idris Elba marries Sabrina Dhowre in Morocco
Elba and Dhowre, who met on the set of The Mountain Between Us in 2017, exchanged vows in Marrakesh
Daniel Craig is doing 12-hour workouts. Ian Fleming’s James Bond drank half a bottle a day
At 51, Craig needs to work hard to convince as the UK’s greatest killing machine
Netflix: The 10 best new shows and films to watch in March
Ricky Gervais’s After Life, Idris Elba’s Turn Up Charlie, Woody Harrelson in The Highwaymen
What will win the 2020 best picture Oscar? Probably one of these
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Luther: The renegade cop returns in search of a clown-faced killer
Review: Idris Elba’s brooding bobbie is back with gross-out horror and comic-book peril
Coming soon... 50 films to look out for in 2019
From Ad Adstra to Frozen 2 and Martin Scorsese's latest, there's plenty to look forward to in the new year
Netflix: the 10 best new films and shows in December
Roma, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Dumplin’, The Innocent Man, Springsteen on Broadway
Yes, Piers Morgan, James Bond would totally wear a baby sling
The TV contrarian is at it again, tweeting about Daniel Craig’s ‘emasculating’ papoose
James Bond: How a potentially radical film became a far safer movie
Swapping Danny Boyle for Cary Fukunaga looks like a cautious move by the producers
James Bond: Cary Joji Fukunaga to direct next 007 film
Director of Netflix series Maniac takes over after departure of Danny Boyle
‘Jack Ryan’ is for dads who love blinking wall maps
Seamas O’Reilly: New TV series may satisfy diehard fans but feels like a parody of itself
Yardie: Idris Elba’s directorial debut is messy but promising
Review: Too many violent set-pieces, though well staged, are placed in no lucid context
Could happen to a bishop: Excruciating seconds of dead air
Radio review: Presenter Gavin Jennings asserts his authority on ‘Morning Ireland’
Katie Hopkins’s only talent: being tiresome and repellent
Radio: 4FM’s Niall Boylan invites Hopkins on to discuss race relations. It’s shock-jock overkill
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