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Kermit and Fozzie: ‘I’d like to try The Great British Bake Off – especially if it was custard pies’

The Muppets’ top entertainers answer your questions about festive traditions, Miss Piggy and working with their good friend Michael Caine

The Guardian - UK

The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30: how the film became a cult classic

“Cult” is often indiscriminately applied to film and television. In Cult Movies (1981), film critic Danny Peary argued that it should be reserved for “special films which for one reason or another have been taken to heart by segments of the movie audience, cherished, protected, and most of all, enthusiastically…

The Conversation

The best TV of 2022: From ‘Abbott Elementary’ to ‘The Bear’

Here we are, nearly at the year’s end and — as with recent years before it — 2022 was absolutely packed with TV options. This is why I tend to side-eye “best of” lists these days. More than 500 scripted shows came out over the past 12 months. Yes, we…

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How Muppets' Christmas Carol became festive classic as it returns to cinemas 30 years on

As The Muppet Christmas Carol returns to cinemas this month, Amanda Killelea explores the story behind how one of the best adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel overcame doubters to become a much-loved festive classic

Daily Mirror

The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30: why the movie, coming to Disney+, is the best Christmas film bar none

The Muppet Christmas Carol is 30 years old on Saturday - it’s the best Christmas film ever and this is a hill I will die on

Evening Standard

The Euros 2024: the 12 best football films of all time, from Bend It Like Beckham to Gregory's Girl

Want more footy? We have you covered with these top films about the sport

Evening Standard

‘I squeamishly refuse to rewatch’: Guardian writers on their scariest movie endings

From the final moments of Don’t Look Now to Midsommar to Men, critics pick the endnotes that caused the biggest nightmares

The Guardian - US

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Medieval review – a Bohemian rhapsody of merry bruisers and brutal bloodshed

The costliest Czech film of all time features epic battles, royal conspiracies, hungry lions –and Michael Caine in a neckruff

The Guardian - UK

The posh still rule, says York, as Tatler announces end of the Sloane

Is it the end of the Sloane ranger? That’s what Tatler seems to think. The magazine’s latest Little Black Book of society’s ‘most eligible’ men and women, once once full of aristocrats, is different this year. The top spots this time are filled by Chelsea footballer Mason Mount and Love…

Evening Standard

Sir Michael Caine pictured playing war veteran as he films for new movie in Camber Sands

Hollywood star Michael Caine was spotted at Essex Sussex's seaside town of Camber Sands as he undertook his new role as a British war veteran for his latest film The Great Escaper

Daily Mirror

Critics lament cuts to BBC radio drama – seedbed of UK talent

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints

The Guardian - UK

Production firm behind Layer Cake, Stardust and Kingsman gets green light for studio and stunt school

Marv Studios has worked with Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert de Niro

Birmingham Post

The Muppet Christmas Carol's deleted scene will be restored in time for Christmas

Fans of The Muppet Christmas Carol can look forward to watching the film in all its glory on Disney + as a key scene featuring an heartbreaking song has been reinstated

Daily Mirror

White Night spectacle lights up Bendigo's rich history as thousands flock to show

White Night returned to Bendigo last night, sending displays onto the regional city's Victorian architecture that highlighted its gold mining, Chinese, and First Nations history.

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The Independent UK

Inception: The truth behind Christopher Nolan movie’s final scene explained

Was it a dream or was it reality?

The Independent UK

Inception at 12: The truth behind Christopher Nolan movie’s final scene, according to Michael Caine

British actor claims he knew the answer all along

Daily Mirror

Sir Michael Caine, 89, uses walking frame on day out in London with his wife Shakira

Legendary actor Sir Michael Caine has been spotted using a walking frame while enjoying a day out in London with his wife Shakira, after revealing he has a spine problem

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Tom Courtenay

Ahead of the release of The Railway Children Return, here’s your chance to ask the legendary actor about his extraordinary career. Leave your questions in the comments – all aboard!

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The Guardian - UK

Lose the Sheen: can you identify the film stars from their real names? – quiz

Martin Sheen says he regrets changing his name from Ramón Estévez. So can you spot the superstars from their real names in our quiz?

Daily Mirror

Beyonce did backing vocals on Corrie star's single - and she was nothing like she is now

Former Coronation Street star Matthew Marsden, who played Sally Webster's lover Chris Collins, got Destiny's Child to do his backing vocals and said Beyonce was 'super shy'

The Independent UK

Jeopardy: Fans baffled by contestant confusing Michael Caine for Mick Jagger

This ‘might be the worst Jeopardy answer of all time’, one fan tweeted

The Guardian - UK

The nasty world of Get Carter was inspired by the appalling poverty I saw in Britain

Letter: Mike Hodges, the writer and director of the 1971 film, describes how he was radicalised while on national service in the navy

Chicago Tribune

‘The Ipcress File’ review: The 1965 British spy thriller is adapted into a TV series — but still set in the early '60s

Based on the 1965 Michael Caine espionage thriller of the same name, “The Ipcress File” on AMC+ (by way of ITV in the U.K.) keeps the Cold War action set in the early 1960s. Harry Palmer is a young Brit with clever instincts but not much spy experience, and he…

The Guardian - UK

Get Carter review – Michael Caine delivers in stone-cold crime classic

Mike Hodges’ Brit-crime magnum opus from 1971, which gave Caine the role of a lifetime as gangland enforcer Jack Carter, can be savoured again on re-release

Manchester Evening News

11 of the best true crime podcasts that will have you biting your fingernails in suspense

From a fake German heiress who cons the New York glitterati to a woman so afraid to speak out about her stalker that she hires a security specialist - here are some of our favourite true crime podcasts

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