44 m. 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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4 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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12 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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12 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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13 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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17 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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35 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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35 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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36 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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61 h. ago Film reviews: Eleanor the Great | Silent Night, Deadly Night | Lurker | Preparation for the Next Life

Scarlett Johansson brings humour and heart to her directorial debut about an elderly woman lying about being a Holocaust survivor, writes Alistair Harkness

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64 h. ago Christmas, Again review – laidback tale of a forlorn Christmas tree seller has authentic charm

Charles Poekel’s directorial debut has taken a decade to reach the UK, but its indie take on seasonal cinema brings low-key warmthThis is a New York drama so laidback that it has taken a decade to reach the UK’s cinema screens. First released in the US in 2015, it’s an ultra-low-budget debut from first-time director Charles Poekel, set almost entirely on a 24-hour pop-up Christmas tree stall. Poekel’s style is far too authentic-indie and unaffected to get slushy or sentimental about Christmas; through his lens Christmas tree lights blink like police lights. But in its own low-key way, he pitches his film just right for a little squeeze of festive warmth.Kentucker Audley stars as Noel (it took someone in the film to joke about his name before I twigged). Noel is back for his fifth year selling Christmas trees in Brooklyn, standing outside in the freezing cold and sleeping in a not-much-warmer caravan parked next to the trees. A few customers ask about the girl working with him last y...

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2 d. ago James McAvoy film set in Dundee council estate to close film festival

James McAvoy’s directorial debut was filmed in Dundee and Glasgow

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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 Premiere date confirmed for James McAvoy’s directorial debut

Actor’s film will be shown at next year’s Glasgow Film Festival

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3 d. ago UK premiere of James McAvoy’s directorial debut to close Glasgow Film Festival

California Schemin’ will be shown at the event next year.

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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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4 d. ago Kate Winslet says shooting new film felt like ‘reliving’ mother’s death

The actor says she hid behind a colleague and cried during filming

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