Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, review: trashy true crime that glamourises the idiots who got caught
Have you ever wanted to carry out a burglary in an exclusive suburb of Los Angeles County? Channel 4 can help!“You wanna break into a celebrity home?…
Ten Percent, review: the British Call My Agent has star power – but where’s the bite?
Call My Agent is the French drama it became cool to namedrop during lockdown. It is a smart comedy-drama based in the offices of a Parisian talent…
Put your claws away, theatregoers – and give Jodie Comer a break
It sounds as though Comer was a “natural” from early youth, and judging by the social-media reaction to her Prima Facie performances so far, the fans are…
Tony Hadley: ‘Why did I leave Spandau? Ask the Kemps and watch them squirm’
What, the jokey interlude where Martin alluded to a three-way marriage with wife Shirlie Holliman and Pepsi deMacque-Crockett, her former fellow Wham! backing singer? “Yeah, I didn’t…
Tony Hadley: ‘Why did I leave Spandau? Ask the Kemps and watch them squirm’
What, the jokey interlude where Martin alluded to a three-way marriage with wife Shirlie Holliman and Pepsi deMacque-Crockett, her former fellow Wham! backing singer? “Yeah, I didn’t…
Wish you were here? The Pink Floyd reunion that never was
And yet, after all that, their relationship still ran aground. The catalyst was Waters’s decision in 1983 to leave Pink Floyd. It wasn’t the first time the…
How the BBC let Jimmy Savile get away with it – even in death
There was one shot in Netflix’s disturbing new documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story which offered an irresistible visual metaphor; it showed Savile, dressed in one of…
Sounds familiar? The plagiarism cases that shook rock
“The overall design and musical development of the melodic, harmonic and lyrical content in the relevant phrase in Shape Of You are distinctively different from that utilised…
June Brown gave EastEnders the power and pathos of an Alan Bennett play
“Give us a tea, Lofty. And a glass of water so I can take a paracetamol.” On 4 July 1985, these were the first words uttered by…
We all owe Bruce Willis an apology
Over the past few years, the Golden Raspberry Awards – or the Razzies – have gone from being a good-natured event that poked fun at the pompous…
The cult of Jared Leto, Hollywood’s oddest, most irritating star
The cult-like component of 30 Seconds To Mars fandom has actually been acknowledged by the group. Since 2015, Leto has staged 30 Seconds To Mars “Summer Camps”…
Banned from the Academy: what happened to the first actor to suffer Will Smith’s possible fate?
Unfortunately for Caridi, his tendency for screener-sharing resulted in him crossing paths with a piracy legend. For at least three years in the early Noughties, Caridi gave…
The cult of Jared Leto: is he Hollywood’s oddest, most irritating star?
The cult-like component of 30 Seconds To Mars fandom has actually been acknowledged by the group. Since 2015, Leto has staged 30 Seconds To Mars “Summer Camps”…
When celebrity fights go public
Ricky Gervais’s hosting of the Golden Globes, in which he cheerily lambasted some of Hollywood’s most prominent figures, turned it into must-see, viral television. And it is…
Oscars 2022, review: a snoozy, inessential ceremony – then a talking point for the ages
Until Will Smith threw the punch heard around the world, the 2022 Oscars was shaping up to be cliché-packed, thrill-deficient snooze. An awkward three-way opening monologue by…
‘We’ll be worth £76m next year’– meet the founders of the UK’s first NFT gallery
Today, the UK’s first NFT gallery opens its doors: a full-time space dedicated to what believers promise is the future of British art. Based in Shoreditch, in…
Kathy Valentine on life with The Go-Go’s: ‘My addiction stopped me feeling like a sad mess’
That makes sense, I say. But looking at the incident with the 14-year-old older brother of a friend, who took her virginity when she was 12 –…
Inside the shadowy world of celebrity ghostwriters
Prominent ghostwriter Andrew Crofts – who has written 80 books for a range of politicians and billionaires, charging a reported six figures – was thrown in at…
The 14 biggest little midlife lies
There’s been some excitement this week following Courteney Cox’s admission that she regrets having certain plastic surgery procedures. This could partly be because those of us who…
Gary Brooker’s Whiter Shade of Pale broke every pop rule – and it was perfect
When I say they don’t make hits like this anymore, I’m not indulging in false nostalgia. It really is an otherworldly record that defies pop rules. It…
Tom Holland is the box office superhero Hollywood needs
When, in early 2015, Sony Pictures announced it was teaming up with Marvel Studios to create a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, the general chorus of reaction…
Brad Pitt sues Angelina Jolie in bitter dispute over French chateau where they wed
“She sold her interest with the knowledge and intention that Shefler and his affiliates would seek to control the business to which Pitt had devoted himself and…
How ‘cancelled’ Death On the Nile star Armie Hammer could come back
While watching Death on the Nile this week, I was reminded of a brilliant running joke on the DVD commentary for This is Spinal Tap. The track…
How Tom Hardy made CBeebies Bedtime Stories a star magnet
At 6.50pm on Sunday night, via the medium of television, a major Royal will address the nation. She will not, however, talk about her annus horribilis or…
I’m not surprised Anna Delvey conned New York society, fashion is full of shameless blaggers
It’s 2008, and I’m in a sumptuous, chauffeur-driven Mercedes chatting with a Versace scion. London Fashion Week is in full swing, and, happily lubricated on free Moët,…