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Radical TV director known for Leeds – United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker

Forget management or punditry: once their professional days are over, there are few things footballers love more than making (sometimes acclaimed, but more often ill-advised) forays into acting. As Ian Wright appears in Netflix’s ‘The Kitchen’, Katie Rosseinsky looks back at some memorable performances from players

From "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke as a mum-to-be of a baby grown in an artificial womb in "The Pod Generation", to compassionate refugee drama "The Old Oak" from veteran socialist filmmaker Ken Loach, film critic Lisa Nesselson talks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

Football star will begin his string of live shows in Manchester, a city ‘that has stayed with me so much’

The film caused a sensation in Berlin, when its nine-year-old star became the youngest ever winner of the Silver Bear award. We meet its Basque director, who has been compared to Ken Loach for her humanity and compassion

The Old Oak, about tensions in a former mining village when refugees arrive, has touched a nerve more raw now than when filming began

A young Syrian woman and a pub landlord join forces to unite two traumatised communities in the north-east in the veteran director’s forthright, hopeful film

Speculated to be the British filmmaker’s final film, this isn’t particularly angry nor compelling, but it is an honest piece of work tackling many of the themes that have always driven him

The celebrated filmmaker behind ‘Kes’ and ‘I, Daniel Blake’ speaks to James Mottram about the culmination of his unofficial trilogy of films about modern Britain, his expulsion from the Labour Party, and who he’ll vote for come election time