Kate MossKate Moss helps to cast Ellie Bamber to play her in biopicBritish supermodel has hand in choosing rising actor in film that recounts how she sat for Lucian Freud in 2002
Kate Moss – one of the most recognisable faces in the world – has helped to cast the British actor Ellie Bamber to play her in upcoming biopic, Moss & Freud.
The film, directed by James Lucas, tells the story of the supermodel sitting for painter Lucian Freud in 2002. Read More...
ObituaryMichael AkintaroFearless seaman who stood up to gangsters and racists in London's wartime West EndMichael Akintaro, who has died aged 86, was one of the last remaining members of a pioneering generation of African seamen who helped lay the groundwork for the establishment of London's postwar black community. A Nigerian who settled in Britain in the 1930s, he was a prominent fighter in the little known racial conflict that developed with the arrival of the segregated American army during the second world war. Read More...
Michael Caine in Get Carter. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy Stock PhotoAs The Italian Job gets a 50th anniversary re-release, we have painstakingly charted the charming hardnut’s 50 greatest performances, from Alfie to Zuluby Andrew Pulver50. Escape to Victory (1981)There’s much to find risible about this Hollywooded-up footballers-against-the Nazis yarn, but Caine’s avuncular presence keeps it watchable, bridging the gap between Sylvester Stallone’s sub-Rocky histrionics and the sheepish line readings of the real-life footballers involved. Read More...
