Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit Trap
Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026
Bradley Cooper
John Bishop: ‘I went into a mad depression because I realised I was a man being told what to do by another man’
The Liverpudlian comedian on inspiring Bradley Cooper’s new film Is This Thing On?
Is This Thing On? review: A sincerely felt origin story for comedian John Bishop moved from Liverpool to New York
Director Bradley Cooper’s approach takes us closer to an improv night than a session of disciplined joke-telling
Cillian Murphy wins best actor at SAG awards as he now looks near-unstoppable favourite for Oscar
Corkman wins at 30th Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles for lead role in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Oppenheimer
Smoking hot: The strange story behind the return of cigarettes to the movies
Hugh Linehan: Cillian Murphy puffs his way through Oppenheimer, as Bradley Cooper does through Maestro. Blame cigarettes’ classification as ‘adult content’
Golden Globes 2024: full list of winners
All the winners from the 81st annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California
Golden Globes 2024: Cillian Murphy wins best actor as Oppenheimer takes home five awards
Cillian Murphy triumphed over Barry Keoghan, nominated for Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Maestro: Carey Mulligan steals this Leonard Bernstein biopic from under Bradley Cooper’s controversial nose
Director Cooper struggles to rise above impersonation in his portrayal of the great American conductor and composer
‘We thought, Oh wow, we hit the big time: they mentioned Dad on The Flintstones’
Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s film about the West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein, has been an emotional experience for his daughters
Venice International Film Festival: An Irish film becomes favourite to win the Golden Lion
An opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael Fassbender
Venice film festival 2023: Few Hollywood stars but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
The Movie Quiz: Whose nose created some kerfuffle in the last week?
Plus: Barbie just passed $1 billion. How many films have now made that much?
The Maestro mess: Did Bradley Cooper really need to tamper with his nose to play Leonard Bernstein?
Donald Clarke: A class of dull pedantry seems to have taken over in the production office
Grammy Awards: struggling to stay relevant, can the show please anyone?
The Grammys have been plagued by a slew of issues such as race and gender – and, oh yes, the music
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