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Netflix: 10 of the best new TV shows to watch in May

Stranger Things isn’t the only exciting thing to return to our screens, Mike Myers is back

Mon May 02 2022 - 06:00

Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 13:30

Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman and Green Book triumph in a night of shocks

Green Book is best film, Bohemian Rhapsody wins most. Glenn Close overlooked for 7th time

Mon Feb 25 2019 - 06:28

Everyone’s talking about ‘Saturday Night Live’, but who’s laughing?

Saoirse Ronan’s Aer Lingus sketch shows SNL’s humour is trapped in a liberal-elite bubble

Fri Sept 28 2018 - 05:00

Rock star Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years

Silkscreen from Death and Disaster series sat in storage among other artefacts

Mon Jul 24 2017 - 19:44

The bamboo ceiling: Hollywood’s problem with Asian actors

Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Matt Damon in ‘The Great Wall’: even after #OscarsSoWhite the movies still stereotype and whitewash Asian actors

Sat Feb 25 2017 - 05:00

How did Amy Poehler become Hollywood’s favourite person?

She’s got an acerbic wit, frequently speaks her mind, and has burned almost everyone at the Golden Globes: so how did Amy Poehler become Hollywood’s most-loved?

Fri Jul 24 2015 - 05:00

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon review

"Party time . . . Excellent": Who'd have guessed? In Mike Meyers' documentary, one of the great masters of rock'n'roll PR comes up smelling of roses

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:37

Sex, drugs & a rocker with a soul - Alice Cooper's old hippie handler gets his own movie

It all began when a young Jimi Hendrix enquired: “Are you Jewish? You should become a manager.” Five decades later, Shep Gordon has few regrets as he looks back on one of the most successful careers in rock’n’roll

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:00

Screen by screenwest

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

Sat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00

Steve Carell: cool with bright spots

Best known for playing the boss in the US version of The Office, Steve Carell is reprising his turn as the crazy weatherman in Anchorman 2. And yes, he’s just as nice as he seems, writes Tara Brady

Fri Dec 20 2013 - 00:00