34 h. ago The most striking British film debut of 2025 is a queer immigrant love story

‘I have been through the system,’ says filmmaker Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, ‘and my goal here was to tell a story of asylum seeking from the point of view of an asylum seeker’

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4 d. ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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7 d. ago ‘Proud father’: Robbie Williams on daughter Teddy’s debut in Christmas film Tinsel Town

Robbie Williams has spoken of his pride as his daughter Teddy makes her acting debut in new Christmas movie Tinsel Town.

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8 d. ago Robbie Williams and wife Ayda support daughter Teddy, 13, for red carpet debut for first film

Robbie Williams and wife Ayda were every inch the proud parents as they supported their daughter Teddy, 13, on the red carpet for the premiere of her first film, Tinsel Town

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8 d. ago Paddington Bear declares his iconic duffle coat 'in Vogue' as he shares fashion advice with the glossy magazine who laud him as poster boy for 'immigrants making good'

The loveable character and British institution, recently made his West End debut in his own musical, after 29 book and three film appearances.

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2 w. ago Wicked For Good sountrack release date as film makes global debut

Wicked: For Good is here, bringing Elphaba and Glinda's story to a close one year after the first film had cinema-goers in tears.

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2 w. ago 'So brave, so proud': Harry Potter's Jason Isaacs supports screen son Tom Felton as they enjoy a Malfoy reunion at Broadway show

The actor has reprised his role as Draco Malfoy, 15 years after wrapping the film franchise and made his emotional debut at New York's Lyric Theatre last week

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2 w. ago Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink to make West End debut in Romeo and Juliet

The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in MarchStranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Romeo and Juliet, opposite British film star Noah Jupe, in a production directed by Olivier award-winner Robert Icke.Sink, who plays Max in the Netflix sci-fi hit, started her career on stage. She was cast in the lead role in the musical Annie when she was 10, and remained in it for 18 months in New York. “I was a Broadway kid, so I’ve always dreamed about doing a show in the West End,” she said. “To get to do that in one of Shakespeares’s most famous plays under Rob’s direction with Noah will be such an exciting challenge. London theatre has this incredible energy, and I can’t wait to be a part of it.” Sink becomes the latest in a line of US stars who have made their West End debuts in recent years, including Sigourney Weaver (The Tempest), Brie Larson (Elektra) and Susan Sarandon (Mary Page Marlowe...

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3 w. ago Desert raves and apocalyptic doom collide in 'Sirāt,' one of the year's most talked about films

Since its prize-winning debut at the Cannes Film Festival, “Sirāt” has been one the year’s most talked about films

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3 w. ago Celebrity Traitors star Charlotte Church's teenage son makes acting debut in BBC film as he abandons following in his dad's footsteps by playing rugby to 'try something different'

Dexter Henson, who the singer shares with Welsh rugby legend Gavin, was part of the cast of short film Waiting for Burton, which hit screens on Monday night.

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4 w. ago As his debut film Once Were Warriors showed, Lee Tamahori was a director of guts and flair

Tamahori was the outstanding director of Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day – but his first film was his greatest workIn 1994, the New Zealand film-maker Lee Tamahori made one of the biggest debuts of the decade, firing on all six cylinders with his gut-wrenching social-realist melodrama Once Were Warriors. The Mekes are a working-class Maori family in South Auckland: Temuera Morrison is the boozing, brawling, bragging alpha-male welfare claimant Jake, who comes home from drinking in the pub with his pathetic sycophant mates to terrorise and assault his wife Beth, played by Rena Owen, and their five children. He is entirely indifferent to the fate of his two elder sons who have drifted into gangland culture and crime, as well as his sensitive daughter Grace, who has talent as a writer. One son gets gang tattoos; the other is taken to a juvenile reformatory where he is at least tutored in the ways of Maori culture – the haka and the taiaha warrior spear – and learns dignity and ...

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4 w. ago James Bond film director Lee Tamahori who also worked with Alec Baldwin and Melanie Griffith dies at 75 after long illness

His feature directorial debut, Once Were Warriors, was a widespread critical and commercial success, and is considered one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made.

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4 w. ago Lee Tamahori, director of Once Were Warriors and James Bond movie Die Another Day, dies aged 75

New Zealand film-maker became a Hollywood fixture in the 90s and 00s, including making Pierce Brosnan’s last 007 movie, before returning to his home country Lee Tamahori, the New Zealand director of Once Were Warriors and Die Another Day, has died aged 75.In a statement to Radio New Zealand, Tamahori’s family said he had Parkinson’s and died “peacefully at home”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago James Bond legend dies after glittering Hollywood career as family pay tribute

Die Another Day director Lee Tamahori has died at home at the age of 75 after battling Parkinson's disease, with his family confirming his passing in a heartfelt statement

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