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‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting | Film
‘I consider an exclusive a failure,” Amy Goodman says. It is not a typical observation for a journalist to make, but it is the approach at the heart [...]
‘Am I 68? 69?’ Irvine Welsh on growing senior, getting pristine, bashing out his modern novel – and flirting with guns | Irvine Welsh
By rights, Irvine Welsh ought to be photographed somewhere gritty, looking grumpy, he says: “That’s the brand.” Beside a graffitied wall or at the do [...]
Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’ | Gregg Araki
Is straight sex the most perverse sex of all? Gregg Araki’s recent film makes a convincing case. Titled I Want Your Sex, the movie is a deliriously f [...]
‘I was born without self-esteem’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, her buzzy queer horror – and being Hollywood’s most outspoken star | Film
‘God is good all the time,” laughs Hannah Einbinder. She’s fresh off a plane from Los Angeles and curled up barefoot in an armchair. This, she says, [...]
‘Change is happening! I can cut off my hair and misbehave’: Vicky Krieps on rage, rebellion, and rejecting Hollywood | Film
Back when she was a rising actor, Vicky Krieps had her fill of people telling her what not to do. When she got pregnant in her 20s, she was advised n [...]
‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood | Film
Sean Astin is showing me around his recent office. There’s framed movie prints on the walls, piles of paperwork and a stack of boxes of Stranger Thin [...]
Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’ | Film
Keith David’s voice precedes him. Deep and resonant, with mellifluous notes that hark back to his boys’ choir days, it has spent decades inhabiting w [...]
‘It was 100% the moment I lost innocence’: how a childhood stop-and-search led to the British debut movie of the year | Film
Imran Perretta always knew that the title of his debut feature film would be “Ish” – compact for Ishmail, the name of the 12-year-old boy from Luton [...]
‘New Girl was so scary I had to stop smoking pot’: Jake Johnson on perseverance, pickleball and Prince | Film
You might assume that Jake Johnson would know a little something about pickleball. The actor is starring in The Dink, a sort of spiritual heir to Dod [...]
‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog | John Carpenter
In 2024, John Carpenter had a dream that sounds like one of his movies: it involved a portal to the underworld beneath a disused church, monstrous de [...]