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BBC series, which also stars Dublin actor Niamh Moriarty, dances between comedy and tragedy in a remarkable way
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Keith Duggan: With Yma o Hyd, a far cry from the usual tournament pop song, Dafydd Iwan joins Michael Sheen in stirring their country’s nationalist spirit
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Pep Guardiola calls the Leeds boss ‘the person I admire the most in football’
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This ‘film’ doesn’t even have the good grace to be a bad movie. It’s far worse than that
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Neil Gaiman on honouring Terry Pratchett’s last request: ‘You have to do this’
The writer explains how his four years of intense devotion to ‘Good Omens’ will never happen again
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Ben Stiller is gratingly effective as a self absorbed executive who envies his son
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Brad’s Status director Mike White on the blurred lines between comedy and drama
Will this film finally put the rom-com out of its misery?
The format has been on the wane for years. Home Again could be its nadir
Kate Beckinsale: Phone taps and Austen super powers
Kate Beckinsale might be a go-to girl for Jane Austen adaptations, in between badass superhero roles. But her family life growing up had more to do with miners’ marches, Trotskyism and having their phone tapped
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Opinion: repulsive William Masters was the opposite of Tony Blair and David Frost
Television: Drop the dead cat. Nidge’s nine lives keep us watching ‘Love/Hate’
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