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TV tonight: a heartwarming Welsh drama about the first Viagra trials

Iwan Rheon and Joanna Page star in the funny and touching feature-length drama. Plus, it’s Hogmanay Gone Fishing! Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Famous fans and their clubs

A look at some well-known public figures with a passion for football and the teams they support...

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Die Hard and Carry On? Britain’s most-aired films over Christmas revealed

Analysis of five decades of festive TV schedules shows that only one in eight films were Christmas-related

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‘Hypnotically terrible’: readers on 15 so-bad-they’re-brilliant Christmas movies

Whether you want to watch the story of a killer shark, a royal romance or a long-eared donkey, these films have got you covered

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: Past Lives and the best immigrant stories on film

One of the year’s best films, Celine Song’s Korean-American love story, now on streaming and DVD, continues cinema’s rich tradition of immigrant stories, from Chaplin to Persepolis

The Guardian - UK

A Christmas Carol: 8 Facts You Might Not Know About Charles Dickens’ Story And Its Many Adaptations

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

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The 19 most problematic movies ever made, from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Forrest Gump

Louis Chilton selects some of the most controversial movies ever released

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The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

Terry Hayes’s gripping second novel was worth the 10-year wait, while Michael Caine’s first thriller has bags of energy and rises above cliche – plus a creepily compelling tale of reality TV and a cryptic cracker

The Guardian - UK

17 awful performances by great actors, from Robert De Niro to Leonardo DiCaprio

Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep and Tom Hardy feature on this list by Louis Chilton, of brilliant acting talents who at one point in their careers bit off more than they could chew...

The Independent UK

OPINION - Deadly Game review: Michael Caine is a peerless actor, but how’s his first novel?

Perhaps he was inspired by Alan Garner who, at 88, last year became the oldest ever person to be nominated for the Booker Prize. Maybe as “a life-long reader of thrillers” he thought, as most life-long readers of thrillers do at some point, that thrillers quite often seem formulaic and…

Evening Standard

17 weirdly underrated performances by great actors

Louis Chilton picks 17 performances from talented thespians that never got the respect they deserved

The Independent UK

Virgin cabin crew applying to vote on strike action

Virgin cabin crew will apply for a protected action ballot to vote on taking possible industrial action, including strikes, over pay and conditions.

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The Great Escaper: Michael Caine's final film is Britain's answer to Saving Private Ryan

The Great Escaper is an engaging exploration of love, loss, memory and trauma. It’s also the final film for its star, Michael Caine, as he has recently announced his retirement. The film tells the real story of Royal Navy veteran, Bernard Jordan, who “escaped” from his care home in June…

The Conversation

Michael Caine’s song, dubious art and pesky crabs – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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George Orwell was a very problematic man, but he was also a complete genius

George Orwell stood up for democratic socialism and against totalitarianism. He praised lucid writing and condemned euphemistic language. Many of the phrases with which we analyse politics and culture today — from the concept of Newspeak to the idea of Big Brother — come from Orwell. He is like a…

Evening Standard

Could Christopher Nolan direct the next James Bond?

The rumour mill is turning as London Film Festival closes

The Guardian - UK

Rebellious, irascible, horny. Older people are reassuringly off the rails these days

Don’t try arguing with this skydiving, Channel-swimming generation. They’re a jump ahead

The Independent UK

Sir Michael Caine announces retirement from film acting: ‘You don’t have leading men at 90’

Academy Award-winning actor concludes a decorated film career that spans eight decades

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The Guardian - UK

Michael Caine confirms his retirement at the age of 90

Actor brings seven-decade career to close, saying he wants to go out on a high note after his last role in The Great Escaper

Evening Standard

Sir Michael Caine confirms his retirement from acting

The announcement comes after his new film The Great Escaper was released in cinemas on October 6

The Independent UK

The Great Escaper’s John Standing says ‘great comedians were always offensive’

Actor, 89, also criticised ‘Game of Thrones’, which he briefly starred in

The Guardian - UK

The Great Escaper review – Michael Caine is gruffly heartbreaking in this veteran adventure

A moving story and terrific performances from Caine and Glenda Jackson, in her final role, lift this melancholy real-life tale of a pensioner’s escapade in France

The Canberra Times

The one-stop button shop favoured by film scouts and fashion designers

Explore the history of the humble - and not so humble - button.

Evening Standard

The Great Escaper movie review: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson carry this sweet story with ease

Given British cinema’s enduring love of the Second World War and cheekie chappies it’s surprising this stranger-than-fiction story took so long to make it to the screen

The Independent UK

The Great Escaper review: Mawkish patriotism lets down the wonderfully paired Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson

Oliver Parker directs the real-life story of World War Two veteran Bernard ‘Bernie’ Jordan

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