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Today — 27 February 2025Latest Entertainment News

The French Connection: Why audiences root for Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle against all odds

27 February 2025 at 00:55

More than half a century after William Friedkin’s revolutionary action film stunned viewers, Geoffrey Macnab looks at how the rogue cop at its centre manages to be so perversely sympathetic

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Yesterday — 26 February 2025Latest Entertainment News

Jodie Whittaker shines a light on another hidden British scandal in Toxic Town

26 February 2025 at 22:03

It’s ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ all over again as Jodie Whittaker heads a fine cast bringing a historic injustice to wider attention

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Conclave: Why ‘Mean Girls with popes’ deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture

26 February 2025 at 22:00

Filled with dramatic popes and nuns backstabbing one another behind closed doors, Edward Berger’s surprisingly spicy thriller – starring Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini – should be rewarded on Hollywood’s biggest night, writes Lydia Spencer-Elliott

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Christina Hendricks and Chris O’Dowd on Small Town, Big Story: ‘There has to be extra-terrestrial life out there’

26 February 2025 at 22:00

As a new Irish dramedy series comes to Sky Atlantic, Helen Coffey sits down with the show’s creator and leading lady to talk alien encounters, Celtic history and the siren call to return to our roots

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