Cinema

Having been around film industry folk for the best part of 30 years means, perhaps inevitably, that I’ve made contact with that burnished metal man known as Oscar.

It may be the only film record of one of the lost buildings of York, a vast prison whose rows radiated like the spokes of a wheel from a hub next to Clifford’s Tower.

Seasonal romcom Love Actually will tour the UK this winter with a full orchestra performing its soundtrack live to picture, in what is becoming an annual highlight of the holiday calendar for many across the country.

Only half a century separated Peter Jackson’s last project from his next. Fifty years to the day since The Beatles played their last public concert, on a London rooftop, he announced plans to do for them what he had done for the troops in the trenches.

EVERY cinemagoer will, of course, take a different view of which films are worthy of an Academy Award, and which are best left behind with the stale popcorn – and the debate will doubtless continue beyond February 25 when the envelopes are opened.

With Mary Queen of Scots out in cinemas, Jon Bradley, a programme manager at Sheffield Manor Lodge, sheds light on her time in the city. Laura Drysdale reports.

Hugh Bonneville is one of our best-known actors. He talks to Nick Ahad about the National Youth Theatre, Downton Abbey and Paddington.

Settle back and watch a new release or film classic in one of Yorkshire’s fantastic independent cinemas.

It was an appearance by a homicidal pot plant which first suggested this was going to be a vintage year for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

They are actors who have proven themselves on the big and small screen alike.

It was the programme filler without which no cinema bill was once complete, but far from having disappeared into history, the short film is thriving – with more than 300 from around the world showcased at a festival in York dedicated to the genre.

Hollywood icon Sophia Loren is to chat with Jonathan Ross and meet fans this weekend in what is being described as a 'once-in-a-lifetime' theatre show.

There may now be more funerals than birthdays but at 85, Sir Michael Caine is relishing every moment of his life . Hannah Stephenson speaks to the legendary actor.

Tom Hardy has said the film industry is “superhero-movie heavy” after starring in upcoming Marvel release Venom.

We Brits generally make a big fuss when one of our own nabs a big acting award. It’s a big deal. Think Colin Firth bagging the Oscar for The King’s Speech and quipping, “I think my career’s just peaked.”

Emily Blunt can be seen descending from the sky with her carpetbag and reuniting with the Banks children in the trailer for Mary Poppins Returns.

Chloe Grace Moretz tells Gemma Dunn that nothing has quite clicked like her latest film The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but I’m something of a devotee of Richard Burton. It was via the voice of the melancholy Welsh lion that I was introduced to Shakespeare, John Donne, Wilfred Owen and Dylan Thomas. Much more importantly and significantly, to me at least, he brought life to HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds as musicalised by Jeff Wayne.