Tag: Cinephile
Nikki Amuka-Bird: ‘I just played the prime minister and thought, me? Run the country?’ | Nikki Amuka-Bird
I became an orphan in my 40s, which was a strange and disturbing experience. This year is the eighth anniversary of my mum’s passing, which feels lik [...]
Andrew Garfield on weepie rom-com We Live in Time: ‘I love that this film wears its heart on its sleeve’ | Movies
It’s no spoiler to say that We Live in Time is a tearjerker. It begins with the late-stage cancer diagnosis of its female lead, Almut (Florence Pugh) [...]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson: ‘I couldn’t understand why Tom Ford wanted me to play a serial-killer rapist’ | Aaron Taylor-Johnson
How do you keep yourself so springy? I’d love to know more about whatever it is that has made you so physically capable. BerniceTheCatAs a kid, I did [...]
It’s quiz time: how well do you remember 2024? | Quiz and trivia games
1. In October, who unexpectedly walked through a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest, causing police to get involved to disperse the growing crowds?a [...]
Vinnie Jones: ‘I don’t like the tough man label’ | Life and style
People think I’m a city boy, but I’m a nature-lover. We lived in Bushey until I was seven, then we moved to a little village called Bedmond, in the c [...]
Nickel Boys star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘If we see something wrong and don’t say anything, we’re participants’ | Movies
There is a scene in Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s fresh film in which she gives a hug unlike any other hug you’ll see on screen. The film is Nickel Boys, a [...]
‘It was like I’d run six marathons then they said do a seventh’ – how Industry’s Marisa Abela hit peak form | Television
Marisa Abela was 21 and in her final year of drama school when the script for Industry came her way. At the time, she didn’t realise quite how lucky [...]
Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’ | Movies
Claressa Shields was two months removed from defending her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an email from Hollywood landed in [...]
Elle Fanning: ‘The last thing I want to be is boring’ | Elle Fanning
‘Technically, I did my first film when I was two,” says Elle Fanning, which, at 26, makes her a youthful old-timer, already more than two decades int [...]
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet: ‘If you’re not daring to suck, you’re not doing much’ | Movies
The Brutalist is a gigantic, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce. [...]