3 h. ago Cate Blanchett pans film industry for gender inequality and insists women are 'still having to fight' for #MeToo progress: 'We're nowhere near equal pay!'

Speaking on Monday, days before the release of spy thriller Black Bag, in which she stars opposite Michael Fassbender, the actress, 55, made her feelings clear on inequalities within Hollywood.

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9 h. ago Cate Blanchett reveals daring morning activity keeping her ‘sane’

‘You can resist that pain or you can surrender to it,’ actor said

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31 h. ago Cate Blanchett says Hollywood is still ‘nowhere near equal pay’

Australian actor was one of several to speak out about equal pay during the #MeToo movement

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36 h. ago ‘Everything is so fragile’: Cate Blanchett on marriage, #MeToo and the state of the world

Over turmeric tea one evening, double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett talks about the secret of relationships and how to survive the current news cycle. The answer? Jump into the ice Cate Blanchett saw in the New Year in the Arctic, with her husband and four children, by cutting a hole in the ice and jumping in. It was -30C and she wore a “funny hat” for the cold and, “It was fabulous,” because, she says, “Everything paused.” It’s February now, and the restaurant near the river is just beginning to fill with evening diners when Blanchett slides between the tables in her tartan “chicken feeding coat” [is this her description?] and striped shirt, collar popped. “Who are they murdering out the back?” she shouts – the noise of dough being pounded in the kitchen sounds as if they’re beating somebody to death and means we need to lean in, over her pot of turmeric tea. “I always thought, if the acting thing didn’t work out, which it still might not, I would love to be a Foley artist,” creating...

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52 h. ago Another Simple Favor review – supremely silly sequel serves more absurd twists

SXSW film festival: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively return in Amazon’s ridiculous yet glossily enjoyable follow-up to 2018’s fan favoriteOn paper, there are plenty of reasons to make a follow-up to A Simple Favor, Paul Feig’s 2018 comic mystery film starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as two delusive, scheming suburban moms. Though it gestured at being a serious thriller – a sort of Gone Girl for cable channel – the film, based on the 2017 novel by Darcey Bell, ultimately devolved into ridiculousness, untethered from logic yet with plenty of road for more twists. Lively’s Emily Nelson, an archly manipulative psychopath straight out of a Justin Baldoni lawsuit, remains her best work since Gossip Girl. And most pertinent to Amazon MGM studios, the film found post-theatrical success on streaming, becoming a modern camp classic during the pandemic.But Feig, by his own admission at the SXSW film festival on Friday evening, is wary of sequels, and for good reason – rarely does lightnin...

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3 d. ago International Women’s Day in numbers: How the fight for equality is still lagging behind

As International Women’s Day is marked around the world, The Independent crunches the numbers on women’s lives at work and at home in the UK and across the world

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3 d. ago Cate Blanchett soars in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also star in this three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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3 d. ago Cate Blanchett shines in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

Cate Blanchett stars in a three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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3 d. ago Jonas vs Price: Fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction, ring walks tonight

Unified welterweight world titles on the line in massive fight to headline all-women’s bill at Royal Albert Hall

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3 d. ago The financial services industry can play lead role in closing gender pensions gap

The standard of living in later life for millions of women will be put at risk if action is not taken, writes Anna Harrigan

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3 d. ago The Seagull review at Barbican Theatre, London: Cate Blanchett is incandescent

The Seagull review at Barbican Theatre, London: Cate Blanchett is incandescent  The Stage

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3 d. ago The Seagull, Barbican Centre review: Cate Blanchett stars in an indulgent take on the Chekhov classic

The Seagull, Barbican Centre review: Cate Blanchett stars in an indulgent take on the Chekhov classic  Time Out London

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3 d. ago The Seagull at the Barbican review: is Cate Blanchett's performance the year's best?

Blanchett delivers an highly skillful performance in director Thomas Ostermeier’s meta production of the Chekhov class

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4 d. ago Jonas vs Price: Date, fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction and ring walks

Unified welterweight world title fight headlines huge all-women card at the Royal Albert Hall

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4 d. ago From Ripley to Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

Ahead of her starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Black Bag, and as her London stage run in The Seagull continues, we look at the screen queen’s most commanding rolesCate Blanchett played a pretty generic “wife” role in this interesting, somewhat forgotten US comedy about air traffic controllers from director Mike Newell, whose title is their slang for guiding planes. It was saddled with a terrible ending by its screenwriters, Glen and Les Charles (creators of TV’s Cheers), and blitzed at the box office by The Matrix. Its genesis is amusingly described by its producer, Art Linson, in his memoir What Just Happened? Blanchett plays the wife of hotshot young air traffic controller John Cusack, who has an affair with Angelina Jolie – who is married to Cusack’s workplace rival, Billy Bob Thornton. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller Black Bag about married spies is brilliant, sexy, and as tight as a drum

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett’s espionage aces share a marital bed – but not state secrets – in this immensely pleasurable new genre outing

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4 d. ago Black Bag review – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage

Steven Soderbergh’s spy comedy sends two married agents after a mole, who might turn out to be one of themThe months and years drag on with no new James Bond, no clear indication of how he is to be repurposed as IP. Into this vacuum has rushed a new generation of spy stories on streaming television: action-intelligence office procedurals such as Black Doves, The Day of the Jackal, Slow Horses and indeed The Agency, starring Michael Fassbender, remade from the French show Le Bureau Des Légendes. These are secret agent dramas that give us the violence and the tech, juxtaposing suspected treason and infidelity in the traditional way, but with a new kind of workaday realist sexiness, and more elaborately about showing up for work: much emphasis on ID badges of various security-clearance levels that beep on card readers and can be worn round your neck on lanyards.Steven Soderbergh’s downbeat, affectless tongue-in-cheek spy comedy (“caper” isn’t quite right) is in this new mode, though ta...

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6 d. ago Amazon Prime adds Tom Hanks film panned by critics but left fans 'crying nonstop'

It's now available to stream for viewers to make up their own minds

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1 week ago The 10 best new London theatre shows to see in March, from Cate Blanchett to My Neighbour Totoro

The 10 best new London theatre shows to see in March, from Cate Blanchett to My Neighbour Totoro  Time Out London

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2 w. ago Roksanda brings sculptural silhouettes to London Fashion Week

The Princess of Wales’ beloved designer played with space and shapes at London Fashion Week.

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2 w. ago Brutal moment punches fly during first ever fight in Professional Women's Hockey League

History, of sorts, was made in Ottawa on Thursday. While the American and Canadian men were facing off in the 4 Nations Final down in Boston, two members of PWHL were throwing down on the ice.

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2 w. ago Boxing’s ‘Fight Card of the Century’ has a glaring omission: women

As Riyadh becomes the de facto home of big-time boxing, the women’s code risks being left behindOn Saturday night in Riyadh, an evening of boxing dubbed as the “Fight Card of the Century” will take centre stage inside the 15-month-old Kingdom Arena. Headlining is the undisputed championship light-heavyweight rematch between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, chiefly supported by the IBF heavyweight title contest involving Great Britain’s Daniel Dubois and New Zealander Joseph Parker.There are five other bouts – including an all-British light-heavyweight fight between Joshua Buatsi and Callum Smith – but all of them will be contested by men, raising concern among a number of prominent voices in women’s boxing. Continue reading...

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