The actor and director on struggling with Dostoevsky, her love of Maggie Smith and flossing in her car Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went on to appear in Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, Parks […]
Month: August 2025
Venice film festivalA postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present Ed Saxberger is an amiable, unassuming New Yorker on the cusp of old age who works at the post office and wears a pen behind one […]
The comedian and actor on what she has learned at clown school, showing her Austin costar Michael Theo around London and the weirdest thing she has done for love What do people approach you about most: Smack the Pony, Bridget Jones, Alan Partridge or shoving cake into Alex Horne’s armpits? […]
Film-maker Beau Miles set himself the challenge of planting 1,440 trees and shrubs in one day. Four years later the result is ‘totally worth it’ Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here On a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small […]
Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style Guillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical […]
(Island Records)The controversy-courting star is in perfect alignment with producer Jack Antonoff, on detailed and utterly delightful tracks that make her previous hit album seem rudimentary in comparison In June, Sabrina Carpenter announced her seventh album, Man’s Best Friend; its artwork depicts Carpenter on her hands and knees, an unseen […]
Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is […]
Kim Cotton says laws, little changed since being rushed through in response to her pregnancy in 1985, are ‘dinosaur’ Much has changed since Kim Cotton became the UK’s first surrogate 40 years ago, when she was forced to flee hospital on the floor of a car under a blanket, such […]
Mike Figgis’s documentary takes us on to the set of the director’s passion project to give as raw and intimate a portrait of an auteur at work as we’ve had for some time ‘Do you know why I’m doing this movie? What do I get out of it?” an exasperated […]
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