4 h. ago First look at James McAvoy's directorial debut about hoax Scots rap duo

James McAvoy directed the true story film about Scottish rap duo Silibil N' Brains, which is set to be released in April 2026

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7 d. ago Netflix fans have days to watch 'gripping' comedy with 'best' James McAvoy performance

The beloved book adaptation is available to stream on Netflix for just five more days

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8 d. ago ‘A Thanksgiving classic’: why Stuck in Love is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their all-time favorite comfort films is a 2012 indie romcom that begins and ends on the November holidayI’ve watched this movie almost every November for about the last 10 years. It’s something of a rarity, a film about Thanksgiving, celebrating the awkward in-between holiday in a sea of clearcut Halloween and Christmas classics. Stuck in Love is an indie romcom from 2012, the directorial debut of writer-director Josh Boone, who would later go on to make The Fault in Our Stars. It boasts a stacked cast featuring Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff, Jennifer Connelly and Logan Lerman (and smaller roles for Kristen Bell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Glen Powell, as well as a cameo from author Stephen King).The movie follows Bill Borgens (Kinnear), an unhappily divorced novelist who fosters his two teenage children’s literary ambitions by encouraging them to write – though he hasn’t written in years since becoming a divorcee – while he obs...

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1 week ago The World of Tomorrow review – Tom Hanks returns to the stage for time travel charmer

The Shed, New YorkThe actor indulges his love of the past in a breezily enjoyable play about a man falling for a woman from the 1930s, played by a standout Kelli O’HaraTom Hanks is a star who’s always had one foot squarely in the past. As an actor he’s forever been likened to James Stewart, a reincarnation of the charming, essentially good American everyman, a from-another-era lead who’s increasingly been more comfortable in period fare (in the last decade, he’s appeared in just four present-day films). As a producer, he’s gravitated toward historical shows such as Band of Brothers, John Adams and The Pacific; his directorial debut was 60s-set music comedy That Thing You Do! and his undying obsession, outside of acting, is the typewriter, collecting and writing about its throwback appeal.In his new play, The World of Tomorrow, his fondness for the “good old days” has led to the inevitable, a story about a man with a fondness for the “good old days” who actually gets to experience on...

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2 w. ago Trailer for Kate Winslet’s directorial debut Goodbye June has fans ‘bawling’

Winslet stars in new holiday drama alongside Helen Mirren, Toni Collette and Andrea Riseborough

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2 w. ago 'They've butted heads': Liz Hurley is 'distant' from son Damian and spending all her time with Billy Ray Cyrus, as insiders tell ALISON BOSHOFF how model has moved out of his mother's home

No mother and son have been closer than Damian Hurley and his model mother Liz. Their lives have always been remarkably intertwined with Damian even casting her in his directorial debut.

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2 w. ago Ewan McGregor and David Tennant among stars to attend Bafta Scotland awards

The ceremony takes place in Glasgow on Sunday.

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3 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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3 w. ago ‘I could eat this podium with a fork and knife I’m so angry’: Kristen Stewart blasts neglect of female film

The actor, whose forthcoming directorial debut The Chronology of Water spent eight years in development, said women in the industry should ‘print our own currency’Kristen Stewart has spoken out against “the violence of silencing” female directors in the film industry, which she described as being “in a state of emergency”.Speaking at the Academy Women’s Luncheon on Tuesday, Stewart said her fellow women in film should reject tokenism and “print our own currency”. Continue reading...

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last month Imogen Poots: ‘This is an industry of absolute Looney Tunes parading as if they’re normal’

The US-based star talks to Patrick Smith about attitude problems, rites of passage, acting in Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, and why Oasis make her want to return to Britain

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