Kelly Macdonald: ‘I’m beyond sex scenes now. I just play detectives’
She shot to fame in Trainspotting, and has starred in Gosford Park, Boardwalk Empire and even as a Disney princess. So why did the Scottish actor panic about her new role in Line Of Duty?
December 2018
Mary Poppins, The BFG and Spectre: your complete Christmas film guide
The best festive films, from the classic The Grand Budapest Hotel, to modern favourites such as Up and Brooklyn, plus the creepy baby from Twilight and everything in between
November 2015
Five best moments
Maggie Smith: five best moments
She’s menaced Muggles, dominated Downton and now found a new vehicle as Alan Bennett’s muse in The Lady in the Van, but here’s the best of Maggie Smith’s less well-known work
March 2015
Robert Altman: the genius who ‘reinvented the language of cinema’
He was a maverick innovator ‘kicking Hollywood’s ass’, says Bruce Willis. A new documentary shows how, by breaking all the rules, Altman became one of America’s greatest ever film-makers
February 2012
Julian Fellowes: captain invincible
He won an Oscar for Gosford Park, scored a worldwide hit with Downton Abbey and now he's retelling the Titanic story. Rachel Cooke meets him
May 2004
Bred and bored
Why does Gosford Park scriptwriter Julian Fellowes employ nothing so vulgar as a plot in Snobs? Catherine Bennett investigates
July 2002
Gosford Park
Rental and DVD EV Cert 15
March 2002
In brief: Gosford Park picks up screenplay award from Writers and Producers Guild
Plus: Opera singer Russell Watson to play Mario Lanza, and more Harry Potter casting news
February 2002
Rival runs rings round Harry Potter
Fiachra Gibbons
They came, they got soaked, they squeezed into the Leicester Square Odeon with only a complimentary bottle of mineral water for company - and wished they were at the Oscars.
In brief: Gosford Park wins British prize
Plus: The Others causes controversy at the Goyas, Connery signs for Victorian adventure, and Friel honoured by the Canadians
Gosford Park review – country house murder mystery is beautifully observed period piece
Director Robert Altman works to a muscular, ambitious script, crammed with sparkling lines and terrific cameo turns for a star-studded cast
