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Michael Gambon: the authorised biography review – a brilliant actor, and a master deceiver

From the National Theatre to Harry Potter, Gambon’s shapeshifting life leaves many questions still unanswered

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27

‘If you can’t understand what sex is, it’s irrelevant if you seem to be enjoying it’: how Queen at Sea upended the dementia drama

Lance Hammer’s first film in 18 years is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about family, mental decline and sexual consent. He and supporting actor Juliette Binoche discuss how they brought unabashed realism to a condition rarely seen on screen

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4

Tom Cruise, Olivia Colman and the return of Rocky: the best films of autumn 2026

Old favourites Shaun the Sheep, Dune, Jane Austen and Godzilla join Charles de Gaulle, the Peasants’ Revolt and queer identity in Spain

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30

Coronation Street actor and Bafta winner Paul Seed dies aged 78

‘I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought the world of him,” Sir Tom Courtenay wrote in a tribute

The Independent UK · Apr 8

Yellow Letters wins Golden Bear at Berlin film festival dominated by Gaza row

Wim Wenders says German director İlker Çatak’s Turkey-set warning against creeping authoritarianism gave jury ‘chills’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21

Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy

Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

In The Seagull, Cate Blanchett and Thomas Ostermeier could make small details seismic

The Oscar winner stars in the German director’s production of the Chekhov classic where ‘everything is open to interpretation’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025

Emily Richard obituary

Actor who toured with the RSC, played Tess of the d’Urbervilles on radio and starred in Lorna Doone on television

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024

King and Country review – Joseph Losey’s brutal reflection on the futility of war

Tom Courtenay is unforgettable as a first world war private on trial for desertion. But it is Dirk Bogarde, dripping with distaste for his defendant who delivers a horrific coup de grâce

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023

Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2023