Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

An Irishman’s Diary

He was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinity

The Scottish actor, voted ‘sexiest man alive’ for decades, started as a milkman and became ‘the greatest’ James Bond

Letters reveal government objections to classic movie set in Japanese prisoner of war camp

Neither Claire Foy nor Colman look much like the queen, so does ocular continuity matter?

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

The 1949 Ealing classic starring nine Alec Guinnesses is getting a welcome reissue

The spy novelist is 87, but his star has never shone brighter, with a BBC adaptation of ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ about to start

Artist Janet Pierce divides her time between Portugal and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre gate lodge

With the release of The Last Jedi imminent, a look back at how the ‘Star Wars’ juggernaut started in a ‘galaxy far, far away’

The actor knows all about standing up for his principles. Can he take that to Westminster?

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is out on December 17th. Here’s your Star Wars guide