He hung out with real-life mercenaries for his turn as an action hero in new spy thriller Liaison. Here, the ‘super-French’ star opens up about staying buff, missing Camembert and what it means to be a man
Actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio were once happy to hang with the Russian leader
The multilingual Italian actor is overcoming stage fright to play opera diva Maria Callas
Review: Mainstream Kristen Stewart is almost as bad as mainstream Julianne Moore
Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme
Dolan’s entry into the Weekend in Family Hell genre is certainly adventurous, but woefully miscast, and ultimately fails in its ambitions
It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?
The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers
‘Once’ director John Carney’s new film has been dubbed ’Twice’ as it is about a couple making music around a city, this time New York, but he says it is part of a portfolio
Danny Boyle’s follow-up to the Olympics ceremomy is lurid, crazy, twisty and hard to entirely resist
While crafting his epic Olympic opening ceremony, director Danny Boyle also had a film on the boil. He might be the hardest working man in cinema, but he’s also the nicest
James McAvoy, the Scottish star of Danny Boyle’s new film Trance, reveals why he prefers fish and chips and nights in to glitzy premieres
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
