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Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has unveiled the major competition selections for its 25th edition (June 9-18), which will be the first to be held in a fully physical format with international guests since before the pandemic. 

British actor Phil Davis says he has resigned his membership from BAFTA in the wake of Sunday’s BAFTA Film Awards which he called “an embarrassing travesty.” 

EXCLUSIVE: Gary Oldman has found “great joy” in playing the Falstaffian, flatulent-sharing, British espionage operative Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, which has just launched season two. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter star confirmed he will play Harry Truman in one scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

, would be daunting for anyone, and Academy Award-nominee Imelda Staunton is no exception. The veteran actor, best known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Vera Drake, and the Downton Abbey films (opposite husband Jim Carter) tells Glamour that stepping into the late monarch's shoes for the fifth season of actually made her feel ill. “It was not easy for me,” she says on a recent Zoom during a break from filming of the Emmy-winning Netflix series.

Doctors as Sian Corcoran - but eagle eyed viewers may have spotted that it is not the first time she has appeared in the BBC soap.Infact, Heather Craney has had many forgotton soap roles throughout the years - and Daily Star has taken a look at where you might recognise the actress from.Along with appearing in Line Of Duty as DCI Alice Prior and Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood as Emily Holroyd, Heather has appeared in Doctors no less than five times since 2011.Over a decade ago she made her first appearance as Debs Barraclough in the soap, before returning two years later in 2013 as Nikki Cranson.She later played Flo Cobb in 2016 and Viv Pierce in 2019, before making her recent return to the popular BBC soap earlier this year.However, her most famous soap role was as a potential love interest for Ian Beale in EastEnders, where she played Cheryl Matthews for six episodes in 2011.She helped find a place for Ian's son Bobby at a playgroup, and after mistakenly thinking that Ian's wife Jane Beale was dead, Ian went along with her mistake.Cheryl later kissed Ian on the cheek and offered to spend the night with him, but nearly found out the truth about Jane from Mo Harris in the square the next day.Before the truth could be revealed, Cheryl visited Ian, but he pretended to be ill as he had met another woman called Rebecca - putting an end to their short lived romance.During this time Heather also appeared in over six episodes of popular BBC drama Holby City, before it came to an end in 2022.As well as playing Melissa Finch, Amy Bonner and Judie Richards between 2005-2016, she also had a recurring role as Lucy Weir for three episodes, opposite other huge soap stars including Patsy Kensit.Along with The Bill, Vera Drake and Silent

EXCLUSIVE:  Sebastian de Souza, Eddie Marsan and Rich Sommer have boarded the Chloe Domont-directed finance world thriller opposite Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich.

A suburban housewife falls in with a group of activists in Call Jane, a Sundance Film Festival premiere directed by Phyllis Nagy, the writer of Carol. Elizabeth Banks is a likeable lead in this story inspired by the network of women who arranged safer illegal abortions in 1960s and ’70s Chicago. Written by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi, it strikes an upbeat, non-judgmental note while exploring the gender and body politics of the time.

Phil Davis has spoken out about the A-levels scandal after his daughter missed out on a place at Durham University.The star – who has appeared in films like Vera Drake and Alien 3 – said the outcome was ‘disgraceful’.Speaking on Twitter, 67-year-old Davis said: ‘A level sense at last but too late for my daughter. ‘Durham uni have given her place to someone else.

Imelda Staunton has put her new role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown out of her mind as the coronavirus crisis has taught her not to take each day for granted.

Imelda Staunton says she is not thinking about her new role as the Queen just yet.