Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy thriller One Battle After Another, starring Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, has led the 2026 Bafta longlist with a mammoth 16 mentions.

Movie characters have raised a glass ever since the opening reel. That’s because liquor is a great facilitator. Playwrights ...

Few names are more notorious in the annals of railway history than that of Lord Beeching (1913-85). As the author of the legendary Beeching Report of 1963, he was responsible for the dramatic and wide ...

Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves ...

Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in a rickety Victorian house near London’s King’s Cross railway station. She rents a room to Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness), who claims to be a musician, ...

The journalist Richard Gwyn observed in the 1980s that Canadians had failed in their obvious destiny to become the prime ...

Comedian Matt Lucas has said he had to read a letter informing him he had been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “a couple of times” as he thought it may be a prank.

Sir Alec Guinness’ commanding performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars secured his fame for future generations. Yet after a distinguished career as one of Britain’s greatest actors, the double-Oscar ...

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TIM DUNN takes us on a journey through cinematic history - with the railway as the ultimate muse.

Feel free to connect with him or check out his work. He's everywhere — Upwork, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Collider, LinkedIn, Instagram. Add Us On It’s rare to find comedies that land every joke ...