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In a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick’s satire; Lily Collins totters through a bland night in Spain; and Ruth Negga graces a trance-like hour

In September last year, the Stanley Kubrick estate announced that actor, impressionist and comedian Steve Coogan would be taking the lead role (all four of them) in a play of Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This is the first ever stage adaptation…

3/5 Armando Iannucci and Coogan team up to bring Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire to the West End, but the production is constrained by aiming too hard for cinematic perfection

Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation

Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called ‘sick’. Iannucci explains why – in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk – this madcap story is as relevant as ever

Shirley MacLaine was in an open relationship with her ex-husband but one famous star she failed to attract was Morgan Freeman.

Once again there is a lot of loose talk about the possibility, and practicality of nuclear war — in northern Europe, the Middle East, and maybe even the United States. “There is serious concern now that the old theories of deterrence are failing, and nuclear war is now a viable…

The screen icon shows her range in roles ranging from Italian sirens to an Oscar-winning turn as a mother fleeing wartime horrors

Music producer, arranger and songwriter who worked with everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Tom Jones, and was behind many pop hits of the 1960s and 70s

Streetwise entertainment agent and producer who worked with stars such as Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland and Joan Collins

Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles