Jack Higgins, the ‘useless’ Belfast schoolboy who went on to write The Eagle Has Landed, dies at 92
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Joel Schumacher: the director who made Colin Farrell a star and helped invent the 1980s
The late film-maker defined an age, made movies whole generations hugged to their bosoms
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Review: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuff
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’
Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter
Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp
Steve Wickham: On My Culture Radar
The Waterboys member on his favourite restaurant and Game of Thrones predictions
Walton Goggins: ‘I’m very grateful Quentin Tarantino saw something in me’
The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard III
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Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
Why ‘Gone With The Wind’ isn’t a great film any more
Empire’s 100 greatest films list has no pre-1940 movies. Yet ‘Hot Fuzz’ makes it
Godfather cast reunites to mark film’s 45th anniversary
Francis Ford Coppola recalls that Paramount wanted to make something ‘quick and cheap’
A beautiful bald dome beats a hairy head any day. I should know
‘The comb-over is a testament to man’s inexhaustible capacity for self-delusion’
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