37 h. ago Film Club review – Aimee Lou Wood’s romcom has sweetness and charisma but is sorely lacking in laughs

‘White Lotus’ star Wood co-wrote the show, about an agoraphobe cinephile, with fellow actor Ralph Davis

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42 h. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper's 'magic' performance in new BBC comedy

Film Club is a new romantic comedy series starring Aimee Lou Wood and Suranne Jones, as well as young star Owen Cooper

Culture

43 h. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper 'absolutely magic' in new BBC comedy

Owen Cooper is among the cast of new BBC comedy also starring Aimee Lou Wood and Suranne Jones

Culture

53 h. ago ‘We wanted nerds to fall in love’: Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan on their new romcom Film Club

The ‘Sex Education and ‘White Lotus’ star has co-written a BBC series that’s warm, funny and full of love. Lydia Spencer-Elliott hears from the cast and creatives about how it was brought to the screen

Politics

3 d. ago Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik

If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in powerI believe it is good practice as a columnist to keep track of when you have been wrong, and the thing I have got most emphatically wrong over the past few years is the Conservative party’s prospects. I was convinced that the party that still won elections despite the chaos and instability of Brexit, not to mention the calamities of austerity, could get away with anything. I even believed that if it lost power, as it did last year, the risk of a Tory restoration was still very high.What I did not foresee was the most successful political party in the democratic world, by some measures, coming so close to extinction this quickly. As the Tory party conference gets under way in Manchester, with rumours abounding over the weekend about diminished attendance, the polling increasingly suggests that Britain’s next general election will be a con...

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3 d. ago ‘Messiness makes you different’: Lukas Gage on meds, trauma, memoir – and filming TV’s most sexually frank scene

The White Lotus and Euphoria star has written a ‘premature celebrity memoir’ that takes in abuse, family dysfunction, personality disorders, shame and heartbreak. He explains why now was the right time to write itThere’s a telling moment in Lukas Gage’s new book where he refers to it as a “premature celebrity memoir”. It’s a self-deprecating joke, of course, but it is also true. Gage is not megawatt famous – at least not yet. Chances are, though, if you have seen him then you won’t have forgotten him. In 2020, he went viral after leaking an audition video in which the director – forgetting that he wasn’t on mute – is caught judging his living arrangements (“These poor people live in these tiny apartments,” he says, before Gage intervenes to let him know he can hear every word). The following year, Gage appeared in the first season of The White Lotus: in one scene, his character Dillon is caught by a hotel guest standing stark naked in the manager’s office, while said manager perform...

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5 d. ago Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?I’m not sure where Aimee Lou Wood – the Stockport-born star of Sex Education and The White Lotus – got the idea for Film Club (Tuesday 7 October, 10pm, BBC Three), the new drama she has created with fellow actor Ralph Davis, but I’d be amazed if it’s drawn from her own life. Not because the fearlessly outspoken global celebrity plays a woman too scared to set foot outside her mum’s house in Manchester following a nervous breakdown, her only respite being a weekly movie night with uni friends in the garage. No. It’s the garage itself.Each week, unemployed, agoraphobic Evie somehow finds the wherewithal to transform her garage into a spectacular film set. For a screening of Alien, this one-woman Secret Cinema wallpapers it with tinfoil and hazard tape and fills it with smoke, strip lights...

Society

7 d. ago Aimee Lou Wood wants to see 'nerds fall in love' in her new BBC show

The six-part BBC series follows an agoraphobic film enthusiast Evie, played by Wood, who transforms her mother's garage into a weekly cinema for herself and her best friend Noa, portrayed by Nabhaan Rizwan.

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8 d. ago Aimee Lou Wood says she doesn’t regret calling out ‘mean’ SNL sketch

Sketch had comedian Sarah Sherman wear fake teeth in imitation of ‘The White Lotus’ actor’s facial feature and make a joke about not knowing meaning of ‘fluoride’

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8 d. ago Aimee Lou Wood says calling out SNL ‘mean’ skit was like standing up to bullies

The Sex Education actor opened up about why she criticised Saturday Night Live’s parody of her

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9 d. ago Aimee Lou Wood says she doesn’t regret calling out ‘mean’ Saturday Night Live sketch

Sketch had comedian Sarah Sherman wear fake teeth in imitation of ‘The White Lotus’ actor’s facial feature and make a joke about not knowing meaning of ‘fluoride’

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9 d. ago White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood fears her soaring fame will reignite her teenage bulimia and body dysmorphia battles

She earned a legion of fans - and an Emmy nomination - with her performance in The White Lotus.

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9 d. ago Walton Goggins issues heartfelt response to Pete Davidson’s warning that fans will ‘turn’ on him

‘As a 53 yr old I’m acutely aware that every experience has a shelf life,’ the ‘White Lotus’ star wrote

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2 w. ago The White Lotus favourites gives major season 4 update as return rumours ramp up

The White Lotus season four isn't set to start production until next year, but already speculation about what could happen or who might appear are ramping up

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3 w. ago The White Lotus season four location finally confirmed after France rumours

HBO boss Casey Bloys has confirmed the location for the next season of The White Lotus, and the black comedy drama will be making a return to Europe

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3 w. ago Rita Ora claims Sabrina Carpenter is snubbing her and 'no longer texts her back' despite previously attending hitmaker's party and sparking rumours of a collab

The I Will Never Let You Down hitmaker, 34, said how Sabrina, 26, is now apparently uncontactable despite the stars previously hanging out.

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3 w. ago This Greek island retreat taught me how to holiday in style as a single parent

Kid’s club holidays conjure up water slides, blue bubble-gum ice cream on tap, and screaming, but not at The Peligoni Club on the Greek Island of Zakynthos, where, says Charlotte Cripps, the vibe is a cross between ‘White Lotus’ and ‘Motherland’

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3 w. ago Why France is the perfect setting for The White Lotus Season 4

The next season of the HBO series has been tipped to be filmed in France – destination expert Anna Richards turns inspector to offer a (mostly) spoiler-free guide to the possible filming locations

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3 w. ago White Lotus stars confirm season four of the show will be set in France

‘I have no idea if I’m in it’, said Parker Posey

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3 w. ago White Lotus' Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins avoid being pictured together following those romance rumours as they party with their co

The British actress, 31, who lost out on Best Supporting Actress to Adolescence's Erin Doherty, enjoyed burgers and cocktails but seemingly kept her distance from Walton, 53.

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