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Experts warn making the anti-vaccine activist health secretary ‘is going to cost lives’. Plus, Paul Mescal interviews Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott is calling his upcoming Roman epic “Gladiator II" his best film

Appearing in many of the landmark gritty dramas of the era, the actor, who has died aged 87, stood out for portraying vulnerability combined with a canny intelligence

Here are some stories behind A Christmas Carol, both the novella and its various adaptations.

Oscar-winning screenwriter of films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Scent of a Woman

The director worked with his friend Julian Sands on eight films – and one fitness regime. Here he remembers an actor unlike any other: impish, charismatic and unafraid to shock

Dramatist and screenwriter whose best-known stage play, Alpha Beta, is a scorching study of marriage and morality

With films such as 1960’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Karel Reisz was a pioneer in reshaping perceptions of ordinary Britons. I think there’s still lots to learn from them

Peter O’Toole was famed for his commanding, Oscar-nominated turns. Mark Linn-Baker was a fledgling stage actor. Richard Benjamin, who’d made a leading-man splash in "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Westworld," had a few TV directing credits. The sum of these unlikely parts was the zesty 1982 movie comedy "My Favorite Year," starring…