Fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are beyond smitten with Rachel Brosnahan’s character, Midge, but some have found fault with the lack of interaction the ambitious comedian has with her children. Midge is often seen hustling to work or to a club, leaving her kids in her ex-husband’s or parents’ care and rarely is seen spending quality time with them. […]

Let’s face it – most musicians don’t like President Donald Trump. That was underlined on Friday, when R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills took to Twitter to protest the use of his band’s song Everybody Hurts on a video from the State of the Union speech. Mills reacted when President Trump retweeted the video to his massive online following. So today, the […]

Does anyone out there have Rob Delaney or Sharon Horgan’s phone ­number please? Give them a quick ring and ask them to explain the ending of their whip-smart C4 comedy Catastrophe before I lose ­another night’s sleep. Or perhaps we could start a petition or stalk them on Twitter? But ­something must be done. Endings are a notoriously difficult beast. […]

When Harrison Ford went onstage to present best picture at the 1999 Oscars, it seemed obvious that he would be handing the statuette to his old “Raiders of the Lost Ark” pal Steven Spielberg for the World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan.” After Ford opened the envelope, the director John Madden recalled, “in my head, he seemed to take […]

In 1929, one of Ireland’s best playwrights and arguably England’s greatest film director embarked on a most unlikely collaboration. Alfred Hitchcock was much taken with Seán O’Casey’s Civil War epic Juno and the Paycock when he saw it on the London stage in 1926, and thought it might make a great film. Bizarrely, he planned a silent version, but by […]

In case you somehow missed the global frenzy the first time round in 2013, the musical tale of Snow Queen Elsa and her fearless sister Anna became one of the highest grossing animated movies ever. This week saw the release of the first two-minute trailer for the sequel, which notched up more than 116million views in 24 hours. Frozen 2 […]

The New Zealand comedy “The Breaker Upperers” adds some welcome irreverence to the homogenized mix of Netflix comedies. This collaboration between Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami — who wrote, directed and star together — exhibits their fairly irresistible comic chemistry, even if the conceit of the movie wears a bit thin. Their characters, Jen (Van Beek) and Mel (Sami), […]

I finally binged Killing Eve and I can now definitively join my colleagues in calling the BBC America series one of the best TV shows of 2018. Now that I’ve watched it, I can’t stop thinking how badly I want to prance around Villanelle’s visually stunning Paris apartment draped in designer finery, a bottle of champagne in hand — all while trying to track down a killer. This spy-action […]

But just who is the 8 Out Of 10 Cats team captain and host of Wedding Day Winners, and what else would you know him from? Here's the lowdown… Who is Rob Beckett, how old is he and what is his background? Essex boy Rob, who's been dubbed the "Mouth of the South", was born on January 2, 1986. The […]

When Bumblebee hit theaters towards the end of last year, one of the most exhilarating sequences for fans of the original Transformers was finally seeing Cybertron in all its wartorn glory. Helping that sequence stand out was an assembly of Autobots and Decepticons with their G1 character designs intact. There have been rumors of an animated movie tackling Cybertron at […]