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Television: Like a musical without a song, the story of Benjamin Franklin in Paris fails to lean into its potential
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April 6th-12th: From Michael Douglas in Franklin to the big reveal in Home of the Year
The Movie Quiz: When did Michael Douglas win his first Oscar?
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Fatal Attraction reboot: this bunny boiler-free retread is all fur coat and no knickers
This show has beamed in from a pre-#MeToo era
Never mind the host, the real chatshow conundrum is how to lure the best guests
Laura Slattery: In today’s fragmented media, even the most fascinating of stars will seem dull by the end of a publicity blitz
Michael Douglas: ‘I haven’t read the small print but if they decide to end it, I want a big death’
Icon of post-Reagan Hollywood masculinity, scion of a Hollywood dynasty, Michael Douglas is now a serene but busy septuagenarian with a recurring role in the MCU
Emer McLysaght: To the person in front of me at airport security . . .
I beg of you, put your tray back at the end of the belt. We are not animals
Deep Water: Neurotic, not very erotic and pretty pathetic return from Fatal Attraction director
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And for a family getaway for the midterm break, how about living in a pod in Mayo?
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations: The list in full
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names are among the nominees for the 28th SAG awards
Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted as a teenager by Kirk Douglas, her sister claims
Lana Wood identifies the long-suspected assailant in a memoir coming out next week
Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations
Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix
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
Joel Schumacher, Veronica Guerin and Batman Forever director, dies aged 80
Filmmaker’s hits include The Lost Boys, Falling Down, St Elmo’s Fire and Flatliners
Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar
Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?
No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag
Cameron Douglas: I can’t go back and undo all the destruction I caused
Michael Douglas’s son on the drug-fuelled ‘death wish’ that sent him from privilege to prison
Netflix: The 10 best new shows and films to watch in October
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Living With Yourself, The Laundromat and Big Mouth season 3
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Golden Globes 2019: full list of winners
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ beats runaway favourite ‘A Star Is Born’ to best drama film
Robert Zemeckis: ‘There’s a power of being in an audience’
‘Back to the Future’ director on creating original ideas in Hollywood for 40 years
Nine of the best Netflix shows and films to watch in November
House of Cards, new Coen Brothers movie, and a double bill of Orson Welles
HPV and flu vaccines: who needs them? What are the risks if you don’t get them?
Finding the information you need can prove difficult amid all the arguments today
Kathleen Turner: ‘I’m f**kin’ angry man – about everything’
In a typically frank interview, Kathleen Turner has said she would ‘shoot herself’ if she were like [unnamed very rich actress]
Ant Man and the Wasp: unapologetically goofy. That will do nicely
The tiny man serves up summer’s second best superhero-as-househusband movie
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books
‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’
Helen Mirren on a motorbike? That’s a ‘grey pound’ movie
‘The Leisure Seeker’ is the latest undemanding, patronising film aimed at oldies
Ruben Östlund: ‘I worry that left-wing people misunderstand Marx’
An encounter with homeless children in Ireland spurred the director to make films that challenge political beliefs
Quentin Tarantino has questions to answer about his Roman Polanski rape comments
Over the last few weeks a mass of interwoven accusations have pushed the movie director into an increasingly uncomfortable place
Steven Soderbergh said he’d quit film. So why is he back?
And what is the mystery behind “Rebecca Blunt”, the unknown talent who has written his latest film?
Malala Yousafzai in key UN role promoting girls’ education
UN Messenger of Peace post comes four years after Taliban gunman shot schoolgirl in head
Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas turns 100
Son of Russian Empire immigrants grew up in poverty in New York before Navy and film careers
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