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Period dramas are not thought “serious” because they tend to focus on women characters, claims Keira Knightley. “There’s a negativity around them because predominantly they’re female,” she said at the Toronto Film Festival. The British star of Atonement, Pride and Prejudice and The Imitation Game is back in period garb in Colette, a biopic of the French novelist. She said ...

Robert Redford has received a standing ovation at the Toronto premiere of the swansong film that’s being tipped to win him his first acting Oscar. The Old Man and the Gun tells the fact-based story of a serial bank robber and jail escapee who spurns going straight. Last month the Hollywood veteran said the film, out in the UK on ...

Jesse Eisenberg, Christina Hendricks and others have joined Jason Reitman for a live reading of The Breakfast Club at the Toronto Film Festival. Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul and Britain’s Richard E Grant also took part in the tribute to John Hughes’ teen classic. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson starred in the 1985 original, which told of five high ...

Bradley Cooper has paid tribute to the UK’s “magical” Glastonbury music festival, where part of his upcoming film A Star is Born was shot. “I didn’t want to make a movie about music without it being an element,” the actor turned director told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday. Cooper, 43, surprised fans in 2017 by appearing ahead ...

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan have reunited at last… performing Especially For You on stage in London. Kylie, who was headlining Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, teased the audience by starting the duet on her own, with a gospel choir singing Donovan’s lines. After the second chorus she sighed, “I need a dance partner,” at which point Donovan emerged ...

The star of the film version of novel The Hate U Give has admitted she found it hard to have her casting queried because she is not darker-skinned. “It was the first time in my life that I’d ever had my blackness questioned,” Amandla Stenberg told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival. “I’ve never thought of myself as not being ...

A simmering feud between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj came to blows at a New York Fashion Week party on Friday evening. The scuffle began after rapper Cardi approached Minaj over “lies Nicki was spreading”, celebrity website TMZ said. She was allegedly elbowed in the face by a security guard, before throwing a red-heeled shoe at Minaj, who appeared unscathed ...

Women of colour are being “written off” as film critics, a study into film reviewers’ demographic profiles says. Not only are they under-represented, but they are also denied the chance to review major film releases, the report released on Friday has found. White male critics outnumber female critics of under-represented racial and ethnic identities by 31 to 1, it adds. ...

Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds, who died on Thursday, had a long list of impressive films to his name, including Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance and Boogie Nights. But he could have had even more. During his 60-year career, he claimed to have turned down several huge roles, including James Bond and Han Solo. Obituary: Burt Reynolds Reynolds was eyed up ...

BBC presenter Rachael Bland has died at the age of 40, almost two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her family confirmed she died peacefully at home in the early hours of this morning. Bland was a familiar voice on Radio 5 Live as a newsreader and presenter, and won praise for co-hosting You, Me and the Big C, ...