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Donald Clarke: As a cyclist, I have the right to despise cyclists
Do you hate fair-weather cyclists? No, you hate me and my exclusionary attitude. I do too
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Review: This impressive drama has the compact shape of an elegant short story
In a Word: Helicopter
A Christmas present long ago prompted an effort to learn how to spell the gift’s name
Christopher Walken: ‘I’m not disturbed. I pay my bills. I’ve been married for 55 years...’
In 1964, a nightclub dancer named Ronnie Walken changed his name to Christopher
Barbara Hershey: ‘I wish I could say I breastfed my son on TV for some badass reason’
The Beaches star on Woody Allen, chick flicks v ‘real’ films, and women making movies after 40
Kirsten Dunst: ‘I haven’t slept through the night in months. I have an eye twitch, too’
She has just given one of her best performances – no mean feat with two young children
Free Guy: When the game starts fighting back
Ryan Reynolds plays a video game character who’s not going to take it any more
Johnny Depp to get lifetime achievement award from film festival, despite assault finding
San Sebastián festival praises Depp as ‘one of contemporary cinema’s most talented actors’
Jennifer Garner: ‘I want joy in my life and in the world’
Her new family comedy suggests otherwise but the actor insists she’s not always a fun mom
Filming a live play during Covid: ‘We were playing Russian roulette’
Producing David Ireland’s Sadie at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for TV was nerve-wracking
Woody Allen denies abuse claims in Allen v Farrow HBO documentary
The film-maker and wife Soon-Yi Previn claim film is ‘hatchet job riddled with falsehoods’ on allegations
Martin Scorsese says we are overusing the c-word (no, not that one)
The word ‘content’ has come to cover any moving image you can stick before punters
Don’t tell me now that you never liked Woody Allen or Phil Spector’s work
If you hate everything now and you will escape future accusations of hypocrisy
You could fill a book with doubleplusungood uses of ‘Orwellian’
George Orwell is common shorthand for ‘mean people are being mean to me because they’re mean’
Simon & Schuster cancels plans for US senator Josh Hawley’s book
Trump loyalist hits out at ‘Orwellian’ decision linked to his bid to overturn election result
Moses Farrow: ‘I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. The abuse at home reinforced that’
Mia Farrow and Woody Allen’s son on family hatred and the problems with being adopted
Thunder Enlightening – Frank McNally on unravelling the mysteries of Finnegans Wake, with help from Marshall McLuhan and Woody Allen
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There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?
Hollywood regularly confounded that myth that grim times generate merry, escapist art
On the Rocks: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones are perfect in Sofia Coppola’s latest film
Exasperated, bewildered Jones is at least the equal of her older costar in this exquisite film
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Seán Moncrieff: I’ve fallen out of love with America
There’s a darkness I never saw before. Perhaps it was papered over by all that positivity
Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
Sarah Silverman, Reginald D Hunter and more on a ‘profoundly stupid, completely brilliant’ comic
Joel Schumacher: the director who made Colin Farrell a star and helped invent the 1980s
The late film-maker defined an age, made movies whole generations hugged to their bosoms
Joel Schumacher, Veronica Guerin and Batman Forever director, dies aged 80
Filmmaker’s hits include The Lost Boys, Falling Down, St Elmo’s Fire and Flatliners
The box-office champ of early summer is a drive-in theatre hit
Donald Clarke: A film you’ve probably never heard of has topped the US charts for five weeks
‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting
The film-maker, accused of sexually assaulting his child in 1992, is done treading carefully
Amy Schumer’s lockdown: ‘I watched Normal People, a beautiful show. So much sex’
‘If 10 is totally fine, I’m a 7. It’s nice to have a baby, because he doesn’t know what’s going on’
Larry David’s quarantine: ‘I’m reading Woody Allen’s memoir. It’s fantastic’
US TV’s great misanthrope is relieved that social life and handshaking are out of fashion
Woody Allen: ‘I’d welcome Dylan Farrow with open arms if she’d ever want to reach out’
Film director says being deprived of raising adopted daughter ‘one of saddest things of my life’
Woody Allen’s controversial autobiography published in the US
The controversial film director’s memoir was dropped by first publisher after protests and backlash
Staff at Ronan Farrow’s publisher walk out in protest over Woody Allen book
Journalist critical of decision to publish his father’s autobiography after sex abuse allegations
Mel Brooks: ‘I got friendship, love and free food. Free eats are very important’
The actor and his fellow giant of US comedy Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship
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