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Neeson turns producer to bring Tuam's mass grave scandal to the screen

The Lost Children of Tuam dramatises Catherine Corless's fight to expose Ireland's mother and baby home scandal, released as forensic teams continue digging up the evidence itself.

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Madness restore Take It or Leave It, the film they made instead of buying a country pile

Forty-five years on, a 4K restoration revives the ska band's guerrilla origin-story film - proof that spending pop money on art house cinema rarely pays, even when the band can't stop being nutty.

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A wife's iPhone diary becomes the spine of a new Alex Gibney film on Rushdie's survival

The film pairs intimate recovery footage with a Dennis Potter-inflected structure, but a documentary's power doesn't settle the questions around it.

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Cumberbatch fronts eco-documentary, but the industry questions remain off-screen

The actor is touring a new climate film assembled from Alaska to the Amazon - yet who paid for it, and who will see it, stays unclear.

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Rhys makes Emmys history as double win exposes streamers' awards arms race

A first-of-its-kind night for Matthew Rhys says as much about platform strategy as it does about acting.

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Ten Years of Motherland: The Sitcom That Made the School Run Look Like a Horror Film

A decade on from its debut, the BBC comedy's anniversary is a reminder of how rarely British sitcoms get the chance to build an audience at all.

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Almodóvar plays the villain in Bitter Christmas, but the real risk is the release strategy

The Spanish auteur's 24th film promises a reckoning with autofiction, Trump and Netflix, though the interview itself offers more sty than substance.

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Hayden Panettiere, 36: the child star who made a network rewrite the plot

The actor behind Heroes' regenerating cheerleader has died, prompting a reminder of how rare it is for a performer to bend a show's entire arc around them.

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The Diplomat is now an awards machine, and Keri Russell still has not won

Netflix's Washington drama collected a spread of acting and writing nominations for the 78th Emmys on 14 September. Its lead has eight nominations and no statuette, which is a fact about the Academy more than about her.

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