Eileen Atkins
'I know what I should be paid. Now let's see how close to that we can get'
June 1, 2021, 06:00
Even virtually, Cush Jumbo's energy enters the room before she does, which is at a run, with the force of someone just ejected from a cannon. "I don't(...)
Diana Rigg: the husky voiced, leather-clad star who made England hip
Donald Clarke
Dame Diana Rigg, who died on Tuesday aged 82, will have long known that all her obituarists would find space for Mrs Emma Peel in their opening p(...)
TV comfort culture: Feeding viewers period dramas since the 1960s
Cult enthusiasms don't come any more niche than that for the UK Independent's television listings of All Creatures Great and Small during the lat(...)
Vita & Virginia: A tale of literary lovers fails to make waves
July 5, 2019, 05:00
Here we have a film torn between brave experiment and on-after-Lovejoy heritage telly. The source material gestures in the safer direction. Chanya But(...)
Oscars 2019: My money's on Lady Gaga and 'A Star Is Born'
It was a very special edition of Toronto International Film Festival for the Irish director Carmel Winters. At the screening of Float Like a Butterfly(...)
Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary
It seems as if we've been complaining about Michael Moore preaching to the converted since he turned up to pester Benedict Arnold for betraying the Re(...)
On TV this weekend: Ethan Hawke, Gino D'Acampo and Tracey Ullman
The Graham Norton Show Friday, BBC One, 23.05pm The guests on Graham's sofa are Ethan Hawke, who stars in First Reformed, Toni Collette, starring in(...)
Magic in the Moonlight review: Woody does it again – unfortunately
It's 1928 and the master illusionist Wei Ling Soo enjoys an international reputation as a disappearer of elephants and debunker of mystics. Followi(...)
Colin Farrell: "Lothario! There's a nice word for a slut. Imagine what they'd say if I was a woman"
'I've been at home in Los Angeles for the past two months with nothing on but the two kids," says Colin Farrell as he stretches into his chair. "He(...)