In 2014, Seth Rogen nearly dismantled a Hollywood studio by accident when his Kim Jong-un send-up The Interview brought down the wrath of North Korean hackers on the heads of executives at Sony Pictures. A decade and a bit on, the wheel has turned full circle, with Rogen playing the head of fictional Continental Studios … Read more
A few ground rules and a few apologies. First, this is a list of the most unlikely Academy Award results on the evening, not a compilation of the most inexcusable decisions. So you won’t see mention of, say, the sappy Forrest Gump, a considerable favourite, beating the ground-breaking Pulp Fiction to the best-picture Oscar in … Read more
Towards the turn of the millennium, Conleth Hill, then a theatre actor in his mid-30s, found himself at a juncture. After a decade working regularly in Belfast, he had finished ticking off a list of roles he had had in mind since leaving drama school. It was a period when, against the extraordinary promise of … Read more