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Hundreds of high-profile figures from the global cinema industry called Wednesday for Iran to release actor Taraneh Alidoosti, who was jailed over her support for the country's three-month-old protest movement. Actors Emma Thompson, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Ian McKellen and directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh were among a…

It isn't Matilda's absurdly lousy parents.

Award-winning actress Dame Emma Thompson and celebrity chef Nadiya Hussain have backed our Christmas appeal to help people struggling with the rising cost of living as freezing temperatures prompt worries about families forced into impossible choices between heating and eating.

Clémence Michallon leads the backlash to the backlash, seeking to defend ‘the most repellent festive film ever made’

Over the years, Richard Curtis’s schmaltzy holiday romcom has become our go-to seasonal whipping boy. Get a grip, writes Jessie Thompson – no one ever said ‘Love Actually’ should be a manual for a life

The romcom’s stars have appeared in major franchises from Harry Potter to Pirates of the Caribbean

The movie knocked Black Panther Wakanda off the top of the box office on opening weekend. The musical movie stars Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull and Stephen Graham as Mr Wormwood.

On the Breadline: ‘No one should be choosing between putting food on the table or putting the heating on,’ says Dame Emma Thompson

The scene where Emma Thompson's character discovers her husband is having an affair still manages to move viewers - and the actress herself - 20 years on