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Newcastle audiences will be among the first to see much talked-about new film Blue Jean which was filmed in the North East and is set to have its first special screening in the city on January 31 ahead of its general release

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…

DIRECTOR Ken Loach has accused the BBC of playing an “absolutely shameless” role in the “destruction” of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the…

Director says media has ‘rewritten history’ to expunge ex-Labour leader and attacks Starmer regime for ‘manipulating the rules’

Letitia Wright was a rising star of British indie films before Chadwick Boseman handpicked her for the Marvel blockbuster. She talks about his death – and how she turned her life around

Many people on low incomes will have breathed a sigh of relief when the UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt announced, in his autumn statement on November 17 2022, that he would be increasing benefits by 10.1% in 2023. This is almost in line with the rate of inflation.

Northern Stage has announced the first ever stage version of the BAFTA-winning movie - to be written by its star Dave Johns - which will have its world premiere at the city theatre next summer

The story of a widowed joiner and a young single mother has been written by Dave Johns, who played the title role in Ken Loach’s 2016 film

"ONE of the things I was pretty adamant about is not lessening the Scots or the Glaswegian dialect in the literature,” bestselling Scottish…

From philosophy workshops to the need for volunteer nail technicians, there’s a lot you don’t know about Crisis

When Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund won the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for “Triangle of Sadness,” it put him in the rarified class of two-time Palme d’Or winners. The prestigious group also includes Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Haneke, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Emir Kusturica, Shohei Imamura, Bille…