Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Michael Winterbottom

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon announce The Trip’s return with season five in the Northern Lights

Series was previously thought to be over after the pair’s Greece-set instalment in 2020

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan spared driving ban after plea to save new series of The Trip with Rob Bryson

Steve Coogan said crew on The Trip with Rob Brydon would be affected if he received a driving ban

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘It’s normalised. I was gawping’: Imogen Poots on making a movie in the West Bank

The actor was told to act like smoke by Terrence Malick and watched Peter Bogdanovich soak his cravat in iced water every day before he wore it. But nothing shocked her as much as filming her new drama set in a Palestinian school

The Guardian - UK

Shoshana review – Michael Winterbottom’s compelling romantic thriller set in 30s Palestine

This partly factual drama about the bright young things of British Mandate Tel Aviv offers insights into the politics of the time

The Guardian - UK

Shoshana review – a quiet love story entangled in deadly Middle East politics

Michael Winterbottom’s drama centres on the romance between a British police officer and a socialist Zionist writer but puts history-telling over emotion

The Guardian - UK

A Farewell To Arms: Everything We Know About The Ernest Hemingway Adaptation Starring Tom Blyth

A Farewell to Arms, one of Ernest Hemingway's best novels, is getting the film treatment... again.

Cinemablend

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Hunger Games star Tom Blyth cast in new adaptation of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

The film will be written and directed by The Trip’s Michael Winterbottom

The Independent UK

Michael Winterbottom: ‘Studying English at Oxford University was a mistake’

The director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about vertigo, risk aversion, shouting to get attention and how Steve Coogan makes things easy

The Guardian - UK

UK Jewish Film Festival 2023: our pick of this year's stellar line-up, from One Life to The Goldman Case

The festival's 27th edition will showcase an incredible variety of feature films, shorts and documentaries

Evening Standard

Shoshana review: Timely look at the birth of Israel doesn’t know what it wants to be

The events of Shoshana are painfully relevant once again - it’s a shame Michael Winterbottom isn’t sure what he wants to say with his historical political thriller

Evening Standard

TV tonight: a fantastic film about Sinead O’Connor takes on fresh poignancy

The singer spoke in a fascinating new interview before her death. Plus, Irish thriller Clean Sweep. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Death of Dick Long to Greed: the seven best shows to watch on TV this week

Daniel Scheinert’s unsettling comedy takes a dark turn as three Alabama buddies go on a bender; while Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan serve up a loaded, semibiographical satire

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve never been one of the cool guys’: Rob Brydon on mortality, jealousy and writing to Kevin Costner

In his new podcast, the best-connected man in showbusiness gently grills stars like Matthew MacFadyen and Noel Gallagher. So what has he learned about the secrets of success?

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘I did my climactic speech – then took half an E’: Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People

‘We re-created the Haçienda nightclub in a Manchester warehouse,’ says the film’s director, Michael Winterbottom. ‘It was chaos – people were crying because they were so nostalgic’

Evening Standard

Exclusive: Kenneth Branagh and Michael Winterbottom discuss the making of Boris Johnson drama This England

“The story reminds us of the whirlwind into which we were placed,” the actor says

Daily Mirror

Mirror's starring role in TV drama featuring Dominic Cummings Covid lockdown breach

The final episode of Sky Atlantic's This England, a drama about the Covid pandemic, focuses on the turmoil caused by the Mirror's front page revelations relating to Dominic Cummings

The Guardian - UK

I will never forget the brutal realities of the pandemic - This England brushes them aside

I saw abject failure, arbitrary death and utter helplessness. This is quite a different story, says former ambulance driver and academic Rod Dacombe

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The New Daily

October streaming guide: Kenneth Branagh as PM, The White Lotus, witches and vampires galore

Kenneth Branagh plays former UK prime minister Boris Johnson in This England, there's a host of Halloween shows and The White Lotus goes to Italy

The Guardian - UK

This England review – so sympathetic to Boris Johnson it is absolutely bananas

Kenneth Branagh’s impression of the former coward-in-chief is spot on, but Michael Winterbottom’s Covid drama is leaden, artless and a disservice to all those who died

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson is television at its most triggering

Michael Winterbottom’s pandemic drama is sickeningly accurate. Plus: risky business for Catherine in the season finale of The Great. Here’s what to watch this evening

Evening Standard

This England on Sky review: Michael Winterbottom’s drama is splendid television, history distilled on screen

A methodically damning drama about the government’s response to the Covid crisis

Evening Standard

This England: how to watch the Boris Johnson drama series

Director Michael Winterbottom says he does not think the ex-prime minister will be ‘flattered’ but hopes he will still tune in

Belfast Live

This England: Director says Kenneth Brannagh did "great job" in portraying Boris Johnson

"I hope that he was flattered when he heard that Kenneth Branagh was going to be playing him...he's a great actor"

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson may not be flattered by portrayal in This England, says director

The series will follow the former prime minister during the first weeks of the pandemic response

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.