Hugh Grant

How Grant & Bonneville got to grips with Paddington 2

If proof were needed that good friendships withstand the passage of time, look no further than actors Hugh Grant and Hugh Bonneville.

Paddington 2: so good it bears watching twice

They've done it again! Given the first Paddington film earnt $268 million worldwide (from a $38.5m budget), all this needed to do was have the beloved duffel-coated bear show up and bump into the furniture.

Paddington 2: a funny and wondrous adventure

These days, CGI looks worn out. Deeply concerned with realistic and explosive tendencies, no thought is placed into the aesthetic and the beautiful. But while millions are spent on digitally removing Henry Cavill's 'tache, writer-director Paul King re-creates animation magic for Paddington 2.

Paddington 2 review

Hugh Grant is on top form as a cravat-wearing villain who frames Paddington for theft in a follow-up that lives up to Michael Bond's evergreen original.

Another wonderful fantasy from Aardman Animations, in which the Hugh Grant-voiced Pirate Captain sets sail to beat rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the pirate of the year award. When he happens on Charles Darwin (David Tennant), all sorts of landlubberly machinations threaten to sink his plan. A witty stop-motion adventure.

Red Nose Day reprise was no laughing matter

The much-hyped Comic Relief sequel to Richard Curtis's film was a real let-down.

Red Nose Day Actually review

Despite all the celeb cameos the charity update of Richard Curtis's romcom was bafflingly weak. But ultimately its job wasn't to get laughs - it was to help people.

Love Actually set snaps give away more than you realise

Love Actually is back for a short - but sweet - sequel this Red Nose Day . We've already seen set snaps of Red Nose Day Actually thanks to Emma Freud, project director and wife of Richard Curtis, the man behind the original movie. At first glance the photos show Hugh Grant back in action, in No 10 Downing Street, but on closer inspection they reveal a few wonderful, and weird, facts about the upcoming sequel.

In 1940s New York, Florence Foster Jenkins won a certain affectionate notoriety as "the worst goddam singer in the world", a socialite-turned-diva who nevertheless attracted a following. Meryl Streep is marvellous as Jenkins, undaunted by the physical frailty left by syphilis; Hugh Grant matches her as her partner, St Clair Bayfield. Frears is note-perfect in a poignantly funny biopic.