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The Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7
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The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchise
Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity
Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations
Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix
Marion Davies was as big as Valentino. Then she had a scandalous affair
Mank, David Fincher’s new film, goes some way to rehabilitating the film star's reputation
The Crown offers a ‘Now That’s What I Call The Troubles!’ version of Irish history
The Crown season four review: The ‘angry Nordie’ stereotype is long past its sell-by date
Fanny Lye Deliver’d: The dampest spectacle you will see this year
Review: Thomas Clay’s latest film is a home invasion horror with a Cromwellian twist
Four new films to stream this weekend
Irresistible, Eurovision Song Contest, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
The Crown season three trailer shows a country and a queen in turmoil
Olivia Colman takes over from Claire Foy as Netflix’s hit royal saga reaches the 1970s
The highest-paid actors of 2019 revealed
Dwayne Johnson, Robert Downey Jr, Bradley Cooper make Forbes list
Lena Headey: I was ‘gutted’ at how Cersei died
All tattoos and earthiness, she couldn’t be less like her Game of Thrones character
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland
Godzilla: King of the Monsters – More cliches than a 1970s disaster movie
Review: The monsters don’t need to eat the scenery, as the main cast have that covered
O’Shea Jackson jnr: ‘I want to take the family name to new heights’
The ‘Godzilla’ star on Hollywood typecasting, being a geek, and his famous dad
Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog
Cannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for mutts
New comedy: ‘Cup your genitals and just hold them’
In Channel 4’s ‘Hang-Ups’, Stephen Mangan plays a therapist who takes his practice online
Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books
‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’
Five shows to watch on TV this weekend
Late Late Show remembers Big Tom while Benedict Cumberbatch joins Graham Norton
Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Charles Dance return to the Gate for Michael Colgan’s farewell programme
The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter
Kat and Alfie: ‘We didn’t speak for five years’
Jessica Wallace and Shane Richie – Kat and Alfie in EastEnders – are headed for a Dublin stage. They talk about Irish stereotypes and how the press damaged their friendship
Review: Game of Thrones, season five episode one
Political powerplays, slick swordplay, plenty of sex and one mean dragon lady
The Imitation Game review: the highest form of flattery
Alan Turing and his colleagues get the popular tribute they deserve in this pacy tale of derring-do
Television: Great fire of London? This one never quite catches light
ITV’s four-part series is overly complex and struggles for authenticity
Cork Film Festival to open with Australian film Charlie’s Country
Irish romantic comedy ‘Standby’ also to feature in extensive festival programme
There will be Vlad: an audience with young Dracula in Antrim
The Northern Irish set of Universal’s latest take on a horror legend seems to hark back more to a place called Westeros than to 15th-century Romania
Washington has nothing on ‘Game of Thrones’
Opinion: US senate seems tame after the cut and thrust of one of Barack Obama’s favourite series
Renowned actors to gather in Dublin for first world forum on their profession
Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Michael Gambon among those taking part in public event
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