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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…

A movie that takes a fond look back at the original golden age of TV has reached a milestone

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You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for…

Paul Routledge picks his favourite black and white movies after a poll found that younger people are now falling for famous movies such as Casablanca and Brief Encounter

The celebrated actor answers your questions about the train scene in Doctor Zhivago, the joy of working on The Royle Family, and his love of the ukulele

The musical comedy film Annie (1982) celebrates the 40th anniversary of its release this year and we take a look at where the stars that made Miss Hannagan and billionaire Oliver Warbucks come to life are now

Her turn presenting best picture at the Oscars with Lady Gaga was a bit overshadowed, so ahead of the 50th anniversary of Cabaret, we give you the all-singing, all-dancing Minnelli Top 20

Hercule Poirot is one of those literary heroes, like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes, whose image blazes brightly in the popular imagination.