2 h. ago ‘I lived out moments of my mother’s passing I never saw’: Kate Winslet on grief, going red and Goodbye June

For her directorial debut, Winslet assembled a cast including Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, Johnny Flynn and Andrea Riseborough to tell a story inspired by her own family’s bereavement. The actors talk mourning, immortality and hospital vending machinesIn 2017, Sally Bridges-Winslet died of cancer. She was 71. It was, her youngest daughter said, “like the north star just dropped out of the sky”.It would have been even worse, says Kate Winslet today, had the family not pulled together. “I do have tremendous amounts of peace and acceptance around what happened because of how we were able to make it for her.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Kate Winslet's directorial debut is a weepy flick drowning in sentimentality, says BRIAN VINER

'Goodbye June and Eleanor The Great elicited much the same response: watchable but flawed. Ultimately, both films drown in sentimentality', writes BRIAN VINER

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14 h. ago Goodbye June review – Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is a paper

Helen Mirren, Toni Collette and Winslet herself star in the Oscar-winning actor’s first step behind the camera – which is also scripted by her son

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14 h. ago Goodbye June review – Kate Winslet’s Christmas heartwarmer is like a two

Star turns from Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough and Toni Colette can’t stop cartoony sentimentality smothering this film directed by Winslet and written by her son Joe AndersKate Winslet’s feature directing debut is a family movie, scripted by her son Joe Anders; it’s a well-intentioned and starrily cast yuletide heartwarmer, like a two-hour John Lewis Christmas TV ad without the logo at the end. There are one or two nice lines and sharp moments but they are submerged in a treacly soup of sentimentality; in the end, I couldn’t get past the cartoony quasi-Richard Curtis characterisation and the weird not-quite-earthlingness of the people involved. Having said this, I am aware of having been first in the queue to denigrate Winslet’s Christmas film The Holiday, that is regarded by many as one of the most successful films of all time.Helen Mirren is the June of the title, an affectionate but sharp-tongued matriarch who is diagnosed with terminal cancer in the run-up to Christmas, and h...

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15 h. ago Kate Winslet reveals the OUTRAGEOUS request she received from Eminem on Saturday Night Live

Kate Winslet shocked viewers of The Graham Norton Show by revealing an outrageous question Eminem asked her on Saturday Night Live.

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19 h. ago Topjaw interview: We just filmed with Kate Winslet and Walton Goggins it’s pinch

Jesse Burgess and Will Warr have eaten social media alive with Topjaw, their wildly successful food and restaurant juggernaut — and after storming Hollywood, what’s next?

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25 h. ago The 15 best films of 2025, from Mickey 17 to One Battle After Another

This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best

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37 h. ago Goodbye June release dates, cast and what to expect from Christmas tearjerker

Goodbye June stars an abundance of British talent including Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren and Timothy Spall.

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37 h. ago Inside The Holiday icon Kate Winslet's first Christmas film in almost 20 years

Goodbye June not only stars Titanic legend Kate Winslet but has been directed by the award-winning actress as well.

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37 h. ago Kate Winslet reveals Helen Mirren broke ‘two personal rules’ to star in her directorial debut

‘Goodbye June,’ about a messy family forced to reunite to support their ailing mother, is out Friday on Netflix

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55 h. ago Terrifying moment locals run for their lives as giant boulder rolls down road & crushes motorbike after falling off hill

THIS is the terrifying moment a giant boulder plummets onto a main road, crushing a motorbike beneath it — yet the rider astonishingly walks away unscathed. The lucky biker narrowly escaped death in Colombia when a massive rock tumbled from the hill, smashing his bike beneath it. The incident took place in the municipality of...

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3 d. ago Kate Winslet makes a rare red carpet appearance with her screenwriter son Joe Anders, 21, at the Goodbye June screening in New York after slamming the cosmetic surgery epidemic

The actress, 50, looked every inch the proud mother as she let her nepo-baby son Joe Anders take the spotlight at the Goodbye June screening in New York on Monday.

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3 d. ago Coronation Street rocked by unexpected death days before Christmas

Carl Webster receives the heartbreaking news that his mother Elaine Webster has passed away in Coronation Street scenes set to air later this month

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3 d. ago Lewis Cope's sweet 'unseen' moment with Katya Jones as she breaks down live on air

Lewis Cope comforted Katya Jones as she cried on Monday's It Takes Two following their shock Strictly elimination and eagle eyed fans reacted to the moment on social media

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3 d. ago Mum arrested next to Disney after 'attacking and strangling' her son, 6

Horrified passengers watched in shock as a 42-year-old mother allegedly attacked her six-year-old son and strangled him on a packed TGV train in France before railway police arrested her near Disneyland Paris

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3 d. ago Man City fan, 11, in desperate need of treatment which could extend his life by years

"You just have to live every moment"

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3 d. ago Kate Winslet 'literally crying' directing new Netflix film as she 'relived' family loss

Kate Winslet has opened up about the emotional experience of making her directorial debut with the Netflix drama, Goodbye June

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3 d. ago Kate Winslet admits she 'relived' heartbreaking family loss while making new Netflix film

The Titanic star has made her directorial debut with Goodbye June, starring Helen Mirren, coming to Netflix on 24th December

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3 d. ago Kate Winslet 'found herself hiding and crying' as Netflix film 'relived' heartbreaking loss

Kate Winslet has opened up about the painful experience of reliving her mother's 2017 death while making her directorial debut Goodbye June, which stars Helen Mirren

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3 d. ago Kate Winslet reveals Leonardo DiCaprio once made her laugh so much she 'wet herself' as she reflects upon their enduring friendship almost 30 years on from Titanic

The actress, 50, who previously revealed the pair 'clicked instantly' on the set, revealed that Oscar winner, 51, once made her laugh so much that she 'wet herself'

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