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Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 13:30

Andrea Riseborough: ‘I was shredding a duck and I had a moment of clarity’

She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors

Wed Feb 16 2022 - 05:00

Drop the needle, it’s the 1970s on screen – again

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

Sat Jan 08 2022 - 05:00

Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary

Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer

Sat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00

Jonah Hill: ‘Everyone’s full of shit basically’

‘This isn’t a goof’: Actor and director talks Mid90s and the power of writing

Thu Apr 11 2019 - 05:00

‘A Star Is Born’: Bradley Cooper isn’t really into talking to me

In his first film as director the star wrangles with the celebrity industrial complex. So you can imagine how this interview goes

Fri Sept 28 2018 - 14:57

James Bond: Daniel Craig with Danny Boyle directing confirmed for 007’s latest mission

The ‘Trainspotting’ director will take the reins on 25th James Bond film – and Craig’s fifth

Fri May 25 2018 - 13:24

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’

Fri Jul 29 2016 - 12:30

Life of Crime review: Elmore Leonard gets the funny treatment, again

Fri Sept 05 2014 - 14:54

Donald Clarke's predictions for the Academy Awards

Putting his reputation on the line. Donald Clarke predicts the big prizes at the Academy Awards tomorrow night - and who deserves to win in each category

Sat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00

Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”

Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...

Fri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00