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Louis CK in I Love You, Daddy: ‘It’s about a guy who found out too late that he didn’t do his job as a dad’
Louis CK courts critical praise and controversy in Toronto
  • Film
  • September 13, 2017, 11:30

“It’s not a safe space, it’s not a triggerless place, it just isn’t,” said Louis CK, describing his squirm-inducing new movie, I Love You, Daddy, whic(...)

Aisling Bea: “People go to me ‘oh, you’re doing acting now? And would you be interesting in keeping up the acting?’ And I’m there with tears rolling down my face.”
Aisling Bea: ‘In terms of comedy, I’m not Heston Blumenthal. I’m like ‘chips and a side’’

Aisling Bea is drinking a pint of beer outside a bar at the edge of Hollywood next door to an Upright Citizens Brigade venue and across the road from(...)

Tina Turner has lived in Switzerland for nearly two decades and gave up her US citizenship in 2013.
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Penguins of Madagascar review: cracking jokes keep these birdbrains flying high

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Bill Hader: “What I liked about the script was that he has lots of problems, but being gay isn’t one of them”

IF you don’t know who Bill Hader is . . . No, scratch that; odds are, you actually do know who Bill Hader is. For some 10 years, Hader has lurk(...)

Julia Pierson prepares to testify before a White House committee last month. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Secret service chief’s sacking had nothing to do with gender

Did Julia Pierson get pushed off the glass cliff? Writing in the New Republic, Bryce Covert suggests that Pierson’s sex – she was the first woman to r(...)

Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”

Dressed in a sharp grey suit and crisp white shirt, Spike Jonze does not seem properly attired for a one-man food fight. But 20 minutes after he si(...)

Plein Soleil
Plein Soleil

Compilers of film trivia quizzes enjoy asking what links Alain Delon, Matt Damon, John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper and a few others. The answer, of cours(...)

Red 2

Well, I suppose it’s as well for them all to enjoy a bit of fresh air. It can’t be good for these veterans to sit around the house eating mints and sh(...)