Cumberbatch Cold War thriller is snapped up at Cannes

Benylin Thundercrack is currently acting up a storm in the brilliant Patrick Melrose. What an actor he's grown to be. All three of these movies sound great, will be watching for sure.

I fell asleep twice during McMafia and never made it to even halfway through the series. James Norton is good but the script was poor and the dialogue dull.

Saw his Hamlet in the Barbican and it was quite magnificent. Incidentally, Jim Norton (Father Ted's Bishop Brennan) was also in it. Different Norton, mind.

Saw his Hamlet in the Barbican and it was quite magnificent. Incidentally, Jim Norton (Father Ted's Bishop Brennan) was also in it.

I'm jealous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skib_O_dcUg

Makes me laugh every time. Absolute genius.

The snob in me won’t allow me to watch anything with an actor with a name like this.

Too many silver spoon, nails-on-glass types making British people look ridiculous.

Where are the new generation of Glenda Jacksons, Sean Connerys and Micheal Caines?

Send this nonsense packing ;)

Michael Caine!

Where are the new generation of Glenda Jacksons, Sean Connerys and Micheal Caines?

Jack O' Connell, Idris Elba, Maxine Peake, Christopher Ecclstone spring to mind...

Jack O' Connell, Idris Elba, Maxine Peake, Christopher Ecclstone spring to mind...

And spring out again very quickly. A bit lightweight.

Not exactly Jackson, Connery or Caine.

We need more world-class heavyweights from the great unwashed. Too many rich kids with silly plummy accents giving the UK a bad name.

Jimzo has a point. Many actors and directors have been complaining that the UK profession is effectively squeezing out talented individuals from working class backgrounds and actively promoting those with privileged public school backgrounds. It's going back to the 1950's, every actor had an RP accent or faked (badly) a working class one.

We need more world-class heavyweights from the great unwashed. Too many rich kids with silly plummy accents giving the UK a bad name.

Utter tosh, old boy... there are plenty of great actors with regional accents (if that's what you're bemoaning the lack of)... ever heard of Sean Bean for example? Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, David Tennant... all very good Scots actors... I could list tonnes of them... and to call Idris Elba lightweight... Lightweight?

Shaun Evans?

@Luddite

I think Judi Dench highlighted the problems of kids from ordinary backgrounds being unable to break through and we get boring cardboard cutouts like Cumberbatch and Etonian nonsense like Eddie Redmayne.

This cringeworthy, elitist crowd are very irritating.