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Normal People’s Paul Mescal named as actor to watch by Variety
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The actor on staying in character and why starring in Emma is a rite of passage
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From Fifty Shades Freed to sleazy Muppets in The Happytime Murders, the cinematic lowlights of the year
Suspiria: The dullest coven on the face of the Earth
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Bad Times at the El Royale: Up-itself post-Tarantino flop
Review: director Drew Goddard has made a pastiche of a pastiche of a pastiche. Could that be right?
16 film trailers were released last week. Which ones look good?
Animated ‘Spiderman’ looks promising. But ‘Suspiria’, and new films from Steve McQueen and Lenny Abrahamson look breathtaking
Fifty Shades Freed: About as sexy as a 1990s ice-cream ad
Review: Cinema’s dullest couple adjust to married life in this tedious instalment
Is it possible for Hollywood to fix harassment problem while busy celebrating itself?
Each week allegations of sexual exploitation grow as the industry converts them to branding exercises
‘Why do people want to see other people’s penises?’
Italian director Luca Guadagnino's new film, ‘Call Me by Your Name’, is surprisingly coy despite its notorious peach-masturbation scene
Bad sex in the movies: from Top Gun to Fifty Shades
The most popular ‘arts’ story of 2017 was this history of bad sex scenes
Fifty Shades Darker review: dreadful sex saga with no plot and awful dialogue
Film Review: Part two of EL James’s recreational sadism story is even worse than the first
Jamie Dornan: Out of Shades’ shadow
The Irish actor has taken ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, his bonkbuster breakthrough, in his stride. The fundamentals of your life don’t change, he says
A Bigger Splash review: hugely attractive, frustratingly evasive
DeriLuca Guadagnino’s four-hander is awash with cultural recycling - but unhinged enthusiasm from Ralph Fiennes outdoes almost everything else on display
New Fifty Shades novel stolen ahead of release date
EL James’s publisher Penguin Random House says Grey will not be available early
Tobias Jesso Jr: The lovable goon who keeps his songs simple
His star is in the ascendant – but don’t expect him to start taking things seriously any time soon
Paris Fashion Week: well-heeled enjoy liberated Dior
Spirit of this year’s collection ‘more liberated, darker and more sexual’
Oscars 2015: Red carpet laid for battle of Boyhood and Birdman
Neil Patrick Harris expected to bring technological savvy and old-school showbiz oomph
Fifty Shades of Grey whips up Irish box office record
Universal Pictures says film made €1.34m over opening weekend across Ireland
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Appalling script, dire acting, troubling message. Sounds like a hit
The film of EL James’s bestseller, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as Christian and Anastasia, can be vaguely titillating and unintentionally hilarious. Mostly it’s just confusing
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