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Esther Rantzen: The best bits from a brilliant TV career (opens the original)
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Esther Rantzen, who has died aged 86, broke all kinds of new ground through a long career. As presenter of Thatâs Life, a singularly odd BBC magazine programme, from 1973 until 1994, she championed a blend of light and serious material that had not previously occupied adjacent airtime. The show would move from hard-hitting reports to utter fluff in the flicker of an eyelash. That contrast continued to define her in later years as she alternated light entertainment with campaigns on profoundly
Try! review: In this charming Irish documentary, everyoneâs a winner (opens the original)
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Even the biggest wiseacre will happily forgive the on-the-nose pun in the title of this charming Irish documentary from OisÃn Mistéil. Try! is, you see, about mixed-ability rugby. The title references how teams gain advantage and also the effort players expend. How could you call it anything else? Mistéilâs debut as feature director goes among four Irish players as they prepare for the 2025 International Mixed Ability Rugby Tournament, in Pamplona. Richie Philpott, of the Sundays Well Rebel
Digger review: Tom Cruise canât be faulted for effort. But itâs still wasted (opens the original)
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Is it coincidence that, mere weeks before the release of Digger, Tom Cruise announced an imminent sequel to his 1990 racing-car flick Days of Thunder? Probably. But that statement will reassure Cruise traditionalists that this yaw into crude agitprop auteurism constitutes no more than a temporary diversion. The 21st century has, for Cruise, largely been a blur of mainstream glitz. The fine turn in Paul Thomas Andersonâs Magnolia, from 1999, now feels as distant as the 100 Years War. He was due
Donald Clarke: The anger Meryl Streep and Greta Gerwig have triggered over Narnia is biblical (opens the original)
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We should have seen this coming. It was reported as long ago as April of 2025 that Meryl Streep was in talks to voice Aslan, the lion, in Greta Gerwigâs upcoming Narnia: The Magicianâs Nephew for Netflix. There was some rolling of eyes. Then the story went away again. Now, four months before the film is scheduled for cinema release, Gerwig confirms Streep will indeed be taking over voicing duties most recently carried out by our own Liam Neeson. We are used to nerds complaining when some act
Four new films to see this week: Sense and Sensibility, The Lost Children of Tuam, Her Private Hell, Stupid August (opens the original)
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Directed by Georgia Oakley. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, CaitrÃona Balfe, Frank Dillane, Herbert Nordrum, George MacKay, Fiona Shaw. PG cert, gen release, 132 min Perfectly respectable, adequately acted new take on Jane Austenâs first published novel from the director of the acclaimed Thatcher-era drama Blue Jean. Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles play the two elder Dashwood sisters. MacKay and Nordrum are their hopeful suitors. The new film â not a patch on Ang Leeâs famous 1
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