Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars

Tim Davie wants to tackle left bias on comedy shows, good luck with that

The star explains why he is returning to stand-up and the big screen in Dolemite Is My Name

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Review: Spike Lee also manages something unexpected from a political film: warmth

He will always be introduced as the screenwriter behind ‘Taxi Driver’, but there are many more points of interest to Paul Schrader

Jennifer Lee Pryor confirms Quincy Jones claim. ‘It was the ’70s! Drugs were still good’

Former Chelsea coach alleged to have horrifically abused youth team players

Harris Dickinson, the rising British actor, has been praised for his performance in the Sundance prizewinner Beach Rats

Rather than channelling anger at Harvey Weinstein, he giggled like a schoolboy

“Comfort is the poison” reads the on-screen message, as Rock wrongfoots his audience at every turn during an incendiary show

Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Denis O’Brien will have to wait another year to be entered on to prestigious list