Cinema

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.

Emma Thompson plays a High Court judge facing a tough decision in The Children Act. Laura Harding reports.

A REVOLUTIONARY new cinema technology called ScreenX is coming to Cineworld at the White Rose shopping centre in Leeds next month.

Henry Cavill has joined the Mission Impossible team for the latest edition in the film franchise. He talks to Laura Harding.

Are you a binger or a whinger?

“Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it’s my mother,” says Donna, aka Meryl Streep, in Mamma Mia.

Summer is a time to be spent outdoors.

Veteran stars Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen talk to Laura Harding about Book Club.