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The Big Picture interviews Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt and Benedict Cumberbatch at the premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson’s big screen adaptation of John le Carre’s classic spy thriller. The film sees Oldman take up the mantle of legendary spy George Smiley – immortalised on the small screen by…

A new sitcom written by and starring Frank Skinner starts on BBC Radio 4 on 5th October. Don’t Start co-stars IT Crowd’s Katherine Parkinson as one half of bickering couple Kim and Neil (Skinner). Each week the audience will join the coupe for a different argument.

Colin Firth has signed on to star in The Railway Man, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson’s adaptation of Eric Lomax’s best-selling account of his torture during the construction of the Death Railway in World War II and his mission to seek revenge on his tormentor. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the film is being distributed…

A collection of letters handwritten by James Dean are going on sale for the first time. Addressed to Dean’s on-off girlfriend of two years, Barbara Glenn, they provide candid accounts of his private life before becoming a star, sent from out-of-town tryouts for The Immoralist in Philadelphia and from behind the scenes of his first…