Todd Haynes: ‘All my movies are critical and financial disappointments initially’

The auteur on his love of whistleblower films and the legacy of New Queer Cinema

David Shire: a Grammy in one fist, an Oscar in the other

The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood

Leo Varadkar and Donald Trump turned me into the Prince of Lies

Patrick Freyne: As Leo Varadkar was siding with Trump on the media, I thought: How did I get here?

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Jane Fonda: From Oscar-winning actor to 50 shades of ****

Fonda may be the greatest actor of her age. What’s she doing in the awful ‘Book Club’?

Donald Clarke: Are we living in a time of Trump-era cinema?

Hollywood has a habit of capturing the political mood before it has emerged

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

‘Spotlight’ illuminates ‘Boston Globe’ clerical sex abuse stories

Film bestows understated nobility on frustrating craft of investigative journalistm

Watergate car park has become an icon to shoe-leather journalism

America Letter: Washington media bubble traps reporters in ‘Beltway provincialism’

Hollywood's JFK

From tragedy to pop-culture punchline

Reinventing Kennedy to suit books, TV and film has blurred his significance

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Upstream Colour

Shane Carruth’s mind-bending follow-up to Primer bewitches as it puzzles