THOR: RAGNAROK ★★★★ Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Ka(...)

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What a wash of light. What a draft of colour. What dammed reservoirs of emotion. Luca Guadagnino’s sun-dappled romance just about deserves the extrava(...)

The film that has ended up being Andy Serkis’s debut feature (after his version of The Jungle Book got kicked back a year) opens in an idyllic version(...)

British author Philip Pullman: miscreant or mothereffing maverick? Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

A recent fulmination in the Daily Mail called up unexpected memories of Mrs Doyle quoting an imaginary bonkbuster on Father Ted. “Then there’s the bad(...)

Andrew Garfield: “I still am a very emotional child.” Photograph: Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times

“Even when you’re busy you’re worried,” says actor Andrew Garfield. “You are always frightened that you will be found out. It’s healthy to feel that w(...)

Here is a necessary documentary on something we think we know a little about. Federica Di Giacomo has turned her attention to exorcists in the vicinit(...)

Rob Pinnington, a member of the British Spartathlon team in The Road to Sparta

Next weekend the world will come to Ireland for the admirable torture that is the Dublin marathon. There are few activities more gruelling for the e(...)

The King’s Speech

It seems tasteless to talk about money in the wake of the accusations still buzzing around Harvey Weinstein’s walking corpse. But business will contin(...)

Welcome newcomer Valkyrie is given a boozed-up, kicking-out-time vigour by Tessa Thompson

The eccentric Kiwi director Taika Waititi has been set loose on Thor and – praise be! – he seems to have been allowed to do pretty much what he wishes(...)