‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-starsRichard E Grant: Despite our vast combined vintage, our paths have…
Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’
The Grammy-winning artist on destroying egos in school, the dealers who looked out for her, and learning from early failureBorn Eve Jihan Jeffers in Philadelphia in 1978, rapper Eve released her debut album, Let There Be Eve … Ruff Ryders’ First Lady,…
‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s lengthLet’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended…
NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officialsThe film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their…
Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak
New York film festival: The follow-up to 2023’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One dazzles with smart social commentary and jaw-dropping effectsEven by the standards of older movie stars catching a major second wind later in their careers, Godzilla pulled…
‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film
Experts and insiders explain how To Catch A Predator became the most controversial show on 2000s TVA man from Long Beach, California, is here to have sex with someone he believes is a 13-year-old girl. When the journalist Chris Hansen walks in, the man’s…
Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
The Oscar-winner is voicing Narnia’s wise lion in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators It is a confusing time to be alive, given how often these days Hollywood indulges in…