11 h. ago New Vogue editor Chloe Malle admits she’s a ‘proud nepo baby’

Malle is the daughter of actor Candice Bergen and the film director Louis Malle

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24 h. ago 'I landed iconic 90s Nickelodeon show role after making big change to myself'

A successful actor and director has admitted there was one key move in an important interview in Los Angeles as a teen that helped shape his career, revealing things could have been so different

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46 h. ago Jodie Foster, 62, flashes her gray roots while going makeup free... after being a Hollywood blonde for decades

The 62-year-old movie icon made no effort to hide the streaks with a headband or hat as she seemed to be proud of the naturally changing hue of her locks.

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3 d. ago My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming

Venice film festivalPierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hittersWe have had some sparky tennis movies recently, such as Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, and it seemed at first as if this coming-of-age comedy from Italian actor turned director Andrea Di Stefano could be joining them. But despite a very robust lead performance from Pierfrancesco Favino, the enjoyably grizzled alpha male of Italian cinema, this completely runs aground in the third act, quite unable to decide if it should offer the traditional comeback story of an underdog sports movie, or if it should pursue its implied repudiation of the win-at-all-costs ethic. The other issue is whether its young hero should ignore what his dad has to say in favour of an attractive, if flawed, new mentor. The film does in fact appear finally to get off the fence on ...

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4 d. ago Megadoc review – absorbing account of an impressive and indomitable Francis Ford Coppola at work

Venice film festivalMike Figgis’s valuable documentary shows how Coppola worked with actors on his $120m passion project MegalopolisWhen Francis Ford Coppola finally started work on his retrofuturist ancient Rome drama-parable Megalopolis (the self-funded passion project he had been nurturing for decades), he invited another director to be a fly on the wall and make a record of his work in progress. This was Mike Figgis, whose limber digital film-making skills were ideal for the task. The result is a thoroughly watchable, respectful, valuable and intimate account of a great film-maker at work – particularly rehearsing actors, a part of directing very rarely shown. (Coppola takes his cast through some wacky exploratory games, like an experimental theatre company.)It’s always impressive to see the indomitable Coppola in full rhetorical flow: holding forth, opining, schooling one and all on what happens when a film is made and how glorious it is to spend and even lose money in the serv...

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4 d. ago Lucy Lawless: ‘I’ve got bag lady hair. I look like I’ve just had sex in a dumpster’

The actor and director on struggling with Dostoevsky, her love of Maggie Smith and flossing in her carBorn in Auckland, New Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went on to appear in Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, Parks and Recreation, Agents of SHIELD and Salem. Her films include Spider-Man, EuroTrip, Boogeyman, Bedtime Stories and Minions: The Rise of Gru. In 2024 she made her directorial debut with Never Look Away. She plays Alexa Crowe in the crime series My Life Is Murder; all four series are now available on DVD and digital. She is married for the second time, has three children and lives in New Zealand.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Laziness. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Giles Havergal, artistic director who led the Citizens Theatre to global fame

Giles Havergal, theatre director, actor, writer and teacher. Born: 9 June 1938 in Edinburgh. Died: 23 August 2025 in Polegate, East Sussex, aged 87

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6 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Giles Havergal, former Citizens’ Theatre Artistic Director who brought radical work to Glasgow and beyond

Giles Havergal, theatre director, actor, writer and teacher. Born: 9 June 1938 in Edinburgh. Died: 23 August 2025 in Polegate, East Sussex, aged 87

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7 d. ago La Grazia review – Paolo Sorrentino opens mighty window on Italian leader’s despair

The director has rediscovered his voice working again with actor Toni Servillo, who plays a president looking back on a career of empty rectitudePaolo Sorrentino has rediscovered his voice, his wan humour and his flair for the surreal and sensational set piece; this wintry, elegant movie is a welcome reassertion of his natural style after the facile and weirdly humourless affectations of his previous, very disappointing film Parthenope. It is a dry comedy of grief and regret which wears its dreamy melancholy and ennui like a well-tailored if fussily old-fashioned suit, and it returns Sorrentino to the various mysterious tableaux of political power that recurred in Il Divo from 2009, about political mandarin Giulio Andreotti, and his 2013 film The Great Beauty about a dissolute journalist and hedonist bidding a bittersweet farewell to everything he holds dear.And above everything else, Grazia returns Sorrentino to the star of those films, 66-year-old Toni Servillo, his male muse and ...

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8 d. ago The French film star, the fake Irish aristocrat and the missing €7m

Trial to open in Nice of Thierry Fialek-Birles, accused of an ‘elaborate fraud’ against the actor and director Dany BoonOne of France’s most popular actors will have a starring role in court when a fake Irish aristocrat goes on trial accused of cheating him out of millions of euros.Dany Boon, director and star of Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (Welcome to the Sticks), France’s biggest box office hit, says an alleged conman, who claimed to be an Oxford-educated maritime lawyer, stole nearly €7m from him as part of an elaborate scam. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sopranos star Jerry Adler dies at 96: Actor worked with Woody Allen and appeared on The Good Wife

Jerry Adler, the actor and theatre director best known for his long-running role as Herman 'Hesh' Rabkin on The Sopranos, has died at 96.

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise director says stunt ‘separated the joints’ in actor’s fingers as he clung to biplane

Action legend is famous for performing his own grueling stunts

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2 w. ago ‘If the devil did exist, he’d be just such a gentleman’: Neil Jordan remembers Terence Stamp

The Company of Wolves director on casting the late actor and an unforgettable hour on set involving Stamp, a Rolls-Royce and a shrivelled skullObituary of Terence StampTerence Stamp: a life in picturesWe were making The Company of Wolves. And we had a problem. With Angela Carter, I had written a scene where the devil drives a cream-coloured Rolls-Royce through an imaginary forest, chauffeured by the young dreamer Rosaleen, played by Sarah Patterson.My initial thought was for Andy Warhol to play the devil. Those pale-blue eyes and that blank expression framed by the blond wig. Andy read the script and liked it. Stephen Woolley, the producer, flew to New York to talk to him, but he was recovering from being shot by Valerie Solanas, who seemed to think he was the actual devil. He said he would play the part, if we shot his scenes in New York. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Aubrey Plaza talks about her husband’s suicide: ‘A daily struggle, obviously’

Actor opens up about death of her director husband Jeff Baena, referring to her grief as ‘a giant ocean of awfulness’The actor Aubrey Plaza has opened up about the suicide of her husband, director Jeff Baena, who died in January.The White Lotus and Parks and Recreation star was speaking to Amy Poehler for her podcast Good Hang when she was asked how she was doing during “a terrible, terrible, tragic year”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s like a stone gets shoved into the river of your life’: Eva Victor on sexual assault drama Sorry, Baby

The actor’s directing debut has been acclaimed for reimagining the ‘trauma plot’. Victor discusses bootcamp with Barry Jenkins – and what you can learn from working in a bridal shopIn late 2020, the actor and comedian Eva Victor decamped from New York to their cousin’s house in rural Maine with a surprise window of time and an urgent subject. Covid had shut down production on Billions, Showtime’s soapy finance drama on which Victor scored their first regular acting gig. Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, a fan of Victor’s short comedy videos on social media, had DM-ed to offer encouragement and a request: send a script when you’re ready.That year, everything felt incomprehensibly big – global pandemic, political upheaval, social fracturing. But alone in wintry Maine, Victor turned far inwards, towards a quiet personal trauma. “It’s like a stone gets shoved into the river of your life. There’s a lot of pain in trying to remove it and you can’t,” says Victor. “You just have to find a w...

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2 w. ago ‘I luxuriate in the weird details’: why Highlander is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort watches is a journey back to the unusual sci-fi antics of 1986With all due respect to Flash Gordon, there is only room in my heart for one maximalist 1980s movie blending science fiction, fantasy and romance with a banging Queen soundtrack. That film is Highlander, the stylised but strangely lofty 1986 wannabe blockbuster with a premise so ridiculous – immortals tussle throughout human history in a beheading battle royale – it is often deployed as a pop culture punchline. (In the Nascar comedy Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Will Ferrell’s blowhard racer confidently asserts that Highlander won the Academy Award for “best movie ever made”.)Even Highlander’s production history sounds like a mistranslated joke about national stereotypes walking into a bar. Australian director Russell Mulcahy chose French-American actor Christopher Lambert to embody the titular mythic Scottish hero, then cast actu...

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2 w. ago Film star's Grade II listed Georgian mansion he once bought with wage from 'terrible movie' goes on sale for £10million

The Hollywood star lived in the sprawling Rectory Farm House on the banks of the River Thames in Wallington, Oxfordshire, for 15 years.

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3 w. ago 'Outstanding' wartime drama hailed 'a magical escape' by fans

The film was written and directed by actor Charles Dance and it is based on a 1908 short story by William J. Locke. Some huge names starred in the movie, including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Miriam Margolyes

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3 w. ago Tim Minchin looks back: ‘Entertainers say we want to change the world, but really we just enjoy being clapped’

The comedian on his sickly childhood, what made him leave his home town and his Matilda-induced anxietyBorn in 1975 in Northampton and raised in Perth, Australia, Tim Minchin is a musician, comedian, actor, writer and director. Starting out in musical theatre, he turned to comedy in 2003, winning the 2005 Perrier best newcomer at the fringe. In 2008, the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned him to write music and lyrics for a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda – it has since won seven Olivier awards and four Tonys. He is married with two children and lives in Sydney. His new album, Tim Minchin Time Machine, is out now. Matilda the Musical is playing in the UK and Ireland.As photos were so rare in the 80s, compared with now, there’s a formality to my physicality here. I look proud, but as I didn’t like primary school, I would have been unhappy that it was time to go to class. I found the whole school experience very scary. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Mel Gibson becomes emotional as he recalls ‘joy’ of making Braveheart

The Oscar-winning director and actor posed for selfies with fans and signed posters before attending a musical performance of movie songs in Co Meath.

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