Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants
Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars
Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars
Tim Davie wants to tackle left bias on comedy shows, good luck with that
The star explains why he is returning to stand-up and the big screen in Dolemite Is My Name
Test your knowledge of the past 12 months with these 100 questions – and you could win a prize
Review: Spike Lee also manages something unexpected from a political film: warmth
He will always be introduced as the screenwriter behind ‘Taxi Driver’, but there are many more points of interest to Paul Schrader
Jennifer Lee Pryor confirms Quincy Jones claim. ‘It was the ’70s! Drugs were still good’
Former Chelsea coach alleged to have horrifically abused youth team players
Harris Dickinson, the rising British actor, has been praised for his performance in the Sundance prizewinner Beach Rats
Rather than channelling anger at Harvey Weinstein, he giggled like a schoolboy
“Comfort is the poison” reads the on-screen message, as Rock wrongfoots his audience at every turn during an incendiary show
Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project
While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’
Denis O’Brien will have to wait another year to be entered on to prestigious list
Comedian Marc Maron was an embittered recovering alcoholic before he found his way as a podcast interviewer of brutal honesty. Not even Obama refused the call
The world’s biggest-grossing comedian is everywhere at the moment. He talks about new film The Wedding Ringer, ‘the knack’ of success and growing up in a tough part of Philadelphia
So, women aren’t funny, eh? We talk to four funny females playing the Vodafone Comedy Carnival to get their take on that lazy trope
Comic never recovered consciousness after suffering cardiac arrest during surgery last week
He always said he was most liberated when doing stand-up – protected by the force field of genius the way he was not when he was ‘Robin Williams’ walking down the street
Walcott’s range went from Marley to Pryor and from Gauguin to Yeats
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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