Andrea Riseborough: ‘I was shredding a duck and I had a moment of clarity’
She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors
Maureen Dowd: Once more unto the breach for Britain and France
Hundred Years’ War still raging in the French and British Embassies in D.C.
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Patrick Freyne: Loki entertains, but soon all art will be sucked into the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Disney+: Five of the best new shows for June
Loki, The Gloaming, Pride, Genius: Aretha and more available on streaming service
Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online
Art house classics rub shoulders with Palme d’Or winners and critically acclaimed works
Jane Casey: On My Culture Radar
The author on watching Tom Hiddleston on stage, and how Andrew Scott influenced her new novel
Joanna Hogg: Back to the 1980s – without the rose-tinted lens
The director on her semi-autobiographical new film The Souvenir, starring her friend Tilda Swinton’s daughter, and how Batman stole her leading man Robert Pattinson
Jim Jarmusch: ‘The Dead Don’t Die cast were paid in oatmeal’
The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the world
EU queries Disney/Sky deal over concerns about cross-border rights
Commission seeking assurances that TV shows will be available across the EU
Good sex scenes: when actors play it safe
How do you safely act having sex? Welcome to Intimacy on Set, the safe sex code for actors
James Bond: Daniel Craig with Danny Boyle directing confirmed for 007’s latest mission
The ‘Trainspotting’ director will take the reins on 25th James Bond film – and Craig’s fifth
Thor Ragnarok: ‘For anybody who likes the scent of the herb’
Review: A smashing film of inter-galactic significance and of no importance at all
Donald Clarke: Class still rules – it’s just harder to tell
Being born to the right family is still invaluable when trying to hold the levers of power
Is Christopher Nolan directing the next Bond film?
He made sense of Batman. He is bossing Dunkirk. Is Nolan signed up for Bond 25?
Do fortune tellers really favour the brave?
Why do fortune tellers hold people in such thrall? Gemma Tipton attempts to see if she – or the psychics – can find the answer
Kong Skull Island review: a rip-roaring retro monster-movie romp
Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson go ape in this irresistible Godzilla prequel, which sees Kong bigger and meaner than ever before
Top tips: How to get ahead at university
Comedian Gráinne Maguire has some valuable advice for soon-to-be third-level students
‘La La Land’ pushes Golden Globes rivals into the dust
Irish nominees come up short, Meryl Streep gives searing critique of Donald Trump
Thank God Hiddleswift is here to distract us from the apocalypse
The image of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston entwined on a photogenic rock had all the earthy veracity of an Andre Rieu album cover
Television: Bob Geldof busts his baggage allowance in a poetry-political broadcast
Review: ‘A Fanatic Heart’, ‘Children of the Revolution’ and ‘The Night Manager’
TV: Loki brings le Carré up to date
Review: ‘The Night Manager’, ‘Operation Transformation’, ‘Prime Time Leaders Debate’
Television: Let’s go Bronco, as OJ Simpson goes on the run again
Review: ‘The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story’, ‘One Child’, ‘Big Dream, Small Spaces’
The Night Manager review: a pitch perfect, lavish thriller
Expect those ‘Tom Hiddleston is the next James Bond’ rumours to fly thanks to the BBC’s slick new spy drama, while Hugh Laurie makes for a superb villain
The princess and the frog
She is jarringly frank and confrontational. He does his best to steer a path towards harmony. Together they are Piggy and Kermit, clearly the most volatile couple in showbiz. Our reporter asks the questions . . . carefully
Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"
As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie
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