Judi Dench

Court challenges over mother and baby homes report adjourned for two weeks

Cases lodged involve claims final report does not accurately reflect evidence given

‘I know what I should be paid. Now let’s see how close to that we can get’

The Good Fight star Cush Jumbo returns home from the US, but now it is on her own terms

If the film's great, who cares if it's faithful to the book?

When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming

Philomena Lee among five given leave to challenge mother and baby homes report

High Court hears a failure to allow submissions on draft report breached fundamental rights

Six Minutes to Midnight: Who do you think you are kidding, Eddie Izzard?

Not even Judi Dench can save writer and star Izzard’s prewar romp from drab mediocrity

Judi Dench: ‘In my mind’s eye I’m six foot and willowy and about 39’

The actor on ghosts, Harvey Weinstein and definitely not being a British national treasure

Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list

But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?

Diana Rigg: the husky voiced, leather-clad star who made England hip

Throughout her long acting career Rigg retained the electric irony that made her such a phenomenon in the 1960s

Sally Potter: the always adventurous filmmaker

Potter explores the fluidity of thought in her new movie about a father and daughter dealing with dementia

Richard Osman: ‘The worst thing in the world is someone telling you they’re writing a novel’

The star of quiz show Pointless on his new novel, being on telly, and why class is crucial

Caitlin Moran: ‘This is still the best time in history to be a woman’

The bestselling author brings her trademark wit and searing insights to a new book, More Than a Woman

Colin the Caterpillar at 30: how a supermarket cake stole a nation’s heart

Since it first appeared in M&S, the larvae-like cake has become a generation’s go-to for birthdays, anniversaries and office parties. But with the baking landscape – and the world of work – transformed, can Colin survive?

‘Staycation’ is just another sad casualty of the war against pointless pedantry

Donald Clarke: The original meaning has gone the way of trolls, rebooters and gaslighters

Hollywood’s a cruel place. But not as cruel as it used to be. Here’s why

Women over 40 are no longer relegated to tweed twinsets. It’s progress, of a sort

Fintan O’Toole: Jack Charlton allowed us to accept the English part of our Irishness

The two countries’ hybrid urban culture was a truth universally unacknowledged

Four new films to stream this weekend

Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl review: Eoin Colfer’s book has been paddywhacked

Much diddly-eye ballyhoo apparently adapted from a tea towel makes it through the fug

Judi Dench becomes Vogue’s oldest cover star – and lets rip at Cats costume

‘My cloak! Like five foxes f**king on my back!’ 85-year-old Oscar-winner says in June issue

Steve Coogan: ‘Come Out, Ye Black and Tans is two fingers to the British’

‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan

Steve Coogan says ‘my Irish passport will be arriving shortly’

The comedian has applied for and expects his Irish passport soon. ‘That’s not a joke,’ he says

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