3 h. ago Ralph Fiennes on ‘painful’ comparison between young cast and Ukrainians at war

Fiennes stars in The Choral, which follows his character as he recruits teenagers into a choral society during the First World War.

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23 h. ago TALK OF THE TOWN: The curtain comes down on Ralph Fiennes' swipe at his ex

I wonder whether Ralph Fiennes was served a large dollop of karma after taking a cheeky swipe at ex-wife Alex Kingston on her Strictly debut last week, writes Harriet Dean.

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3 w. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Alex Kingston's potential Doctor Who return and split from Ralph Fiennes

The River Song actress hasn't appeared in Doctor Who since 2015

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3 w. ago Strictly star Alex Kingston's three marriages – affair heartache to fertility woes

Strictly Come Dancing star Alex Kingston has been married three times – including her marriage to Voldemort actor Ralph Fiennes which ended in heartache in 1997

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3 w. ago ‘Always the coolest, calmest man in the room’: friends and film

Everybody loved Robert Redford. Directors and co-stars including Ralph Fiennes, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Judd Hirsch, Norman Reedus and F Murray Abraham explain whyJames Vanderbilt (Truth, 2015) Continue reading...

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3 w. ago A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review – Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play the game of love

Giddy romantic fantasy sends its two commitment-phobe leads on a magical road trip through their pasts that may lead them back to loveKorean-American auteur Kogonada has until now been known for his intriguingly complex, cerebral essayistic movies, such as Columbus and After Yang, whose emotional content, though potent, isn’t immediately obvious. Now he has made the leap into a big, bold, primary-coloured romantic phantasmagoria, as if Chris Marker had remade The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for the American multiplex with two unfeasibly beautiful Hollywood stars. This is a musical without musical numbers (without its own musical numbers, anyway) and a romantic comedy mostly without comedy – an imbalance it shares with most romcoms in fact. The screenwriter is Seth Reiss, co-author of the (much chillier) drama The Menu, with Ralph Fiennes as a scary chef.What Kogonada and Reiss are offering is a likably, if obtusely uncynical, heart-on-sleeve wish-fulfilment spectacular, which gradually r...

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