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Oscar-winning film Conclave was released last year.

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Hunger Games readers react as fan favorite actor cast in key Sunrise on the Reaping role

Forthcoming adaptation slated for release in November next year

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How accurate is Conclave? What the film gets right (and wrong) about selecting a new Pope

The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, has enjoyed a surge in popularity since the death of Pope Francis

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The holy screen: a brief history of popes on film and TV, from Peter O’Toole to Robbie Coltrane

Jonathan Pryce was humorous, O’Toole capricious, Liv Ullman secretly female and Jude Law memorably Speedo-clad – onscreen pontiffs have come in all forms

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Conclave viewership rose 283% on day of Pope Francis’s death

Ralph Fiennes was Oscar-nominated for his role in the thriller which follows cardinals wrangling to replace a fictional pontiff after his death

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‘Conclave’ viewership soars after Pope’s death – How accurate is the Oscar-winning film?

Edward Berger's Oscar-winning film 'Conclave' has re-entered the cultural conversation following Pope Francis' death. The 2024 film feels prescient considering the upcoming conclave – something mirrored in viewership numbers. But how accurate is the film? Here’s everything you need to know.

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‘A bloke called Kevin from Dublin’: Irish-American cardinal who will run papal conclave

Kevin Farrell rose through the ecclesiastical ranks to be made camerlengo by Pope Francis, whose death has thrust him into the global spotlight

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How to watch Conclave, the film streaming now about the secret and mysterious ritual to elect a new Pope

Oscar-winning film documents the sequestering of the Vatican’s religious leaders as they select the new Pope

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Experts talk realism of Conclave movie: ‘Gets a lot of the details right’

After the death of Pope Francis, experts weigh in on how much the real-life papal election will mirror the hit Oscar-winning movie

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How accurate is Conclave? Five things the film taught us about the process after the Pope’s death

As Pope Francis dies aged 88, the 2025 BAFTA-winning film Conclave has never been so relevant

Evening Standard

'I wanted to look good for Juliette' — Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for The Return

They’ve been friends for 30 years — now Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes are reprising their on-screen romance in a retelling of the greatest epic of them all: the Odyssey

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Danny Boyle's star-studded 28 Years Later explosive trailer with Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson drops

The upcoming zombie apocalypse film reunites Oscar-winning director Boyle with writer Alex Garland

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson terrified by crazed zombies in 28 Years Later

The highly anticipated sequel to 28 Days Later did not reveal the fate of original character, played by Cillian Murphy.

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Hollywood Icon Ralph Fiennes Unrecognizable With Ripped Physique At 62

Ralph Fiennes revealed he was on a “tough” diet and had a strict exercise regimen for months as part of his body transformation.

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Ralph Fiennes stuns fans by getting into ‘phenomenal’ shape for new role

Ralph Fiennes has undergone a striking physical transformation for his latest role as Odysseus

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Juliette Binoche knows Ralph Fiennes' 'dark sides'

Juliette Binoche has been friends with Ralph Fiennes for years and she knows his "dark sides", his "desires" and his "beauty".

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The Return review – Ralph Fiennes’s Homeric hero finds his way home to outstanding Juliette Binoche

The stars of The English Patient are reunited to electric effect in Uberto Pasolini’s handsome retelling of the Odyssey

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Juliette Binoche on reuniting with Ralph Fiennes: ‘I know his desires. I know his dark sides’

INTERVIEW: The Oscar-winning French star talks to Adam White about her new film ‘The Return’, why it is dangerous to be a ‘prisoner’ to directors, and how on the set of ‘The English Patient’ she was ‘trembling all the time’

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Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways

What Hi-Fi?

This year's Oscar-winning thriller is finally streaming this weekend – and it’s a terrific TV picture tester

2025’s Best Adapted Screenplay is coming to Prime Video

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The Return subverts Homer’s The Odyssey to dull ends

2/5 It won’t be hard next year for Christopher Nolan to best this flawed reunion between stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

The Guardian - UK

The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

Uberto Pasolini’s raw and urgent drama, from a draft by Edward Bond, sees a traumatised Odysseus face the shameful aftermath of war

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The New Sunrise On The Reaping Trailer Dropped & The Odds Aren’t In Haymitch’s Favour

Effie Trinket, you will ALWAYS be a star.

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OPINION - It's the great debate — can a cat or dog really make you as happy as having a husband?

So, tough one: which gives you greater life satisfaction, your spouse or your cat/dog? More to the point, is your dog/cat worth as much to your happiness as an extra £70,000? Ooh, even tougher. It was interesting, incidentally, that in the new film with Ralph Fiennes, The Return, about Odysseus…

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‘The violence is relentless. I don’t understand it’: Simon Russell Beale faces up to Shakespeare’s goriest play

The celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that ‘teeters on the edge of acceptability’ – but he’s made a few changes

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