From Olivia Colman to Twiggy – the stars all want a ‘Charlotte Tilbury face’
The confidence-boosting effect of make-up is something that Tilbury, who has been wearing cosmetics since she was 13 years old, has professed since early on in her…
If diversity matters so much, why do the same actresses dominate film and TV?
Perhaps I am living in Cloud Cuckoo Land – actors are as much at the mercy of market forces as anybody else, and ever since the birth…
Olivia Colman to star in BBC adaptation of Great Expectations
The series will also be executive produced by the team which was behind the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – Knight, actor Tom Hardy,…
Belfast boy Kenneth Branagh is the Oscars’ comeback kid
The 2022 Oscar nominations Best actor in a leading role Javier Bardem: Being the Ricardos Benedict Cumberbatch: The Power of the Dog Andrew Garfield: tick, tick…BOOM! Will…
Munich: The Edge of War: like a bumper episode of The Crown
12A cert, 130 min. Dir: Christian Schwochow It’s been a while since likening a film to a television programme could automatically be considered an insult, and Munich:…
The Lost Daughter, review: a hideous holiday with Olivia Colman in this shiveringly intimate drama
One of the richest and most versatile strands of cinema in Hollywood’s golden age was the women’s picture: female-centred films, often poised on the threshold of melodrama…
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, review: an odd, intrepid biopic that wears its art on its sleeve
The mussed-up style can feel uncertain, but there’s a sincerity to Sharpe’s treatment of Wain, in all his life’s shambolic aspects, that tugs away at you. Toby…
From Scrooge to Superworm: the definitive guide to watching TV on Christmas Day
Family members giving and receiving (the remote control). Children with faces aglow (from the screen). Everyone gathering around the tree (to face the other way, towards the…
Superworm, review: Julia Donaldson’s Christmas Day gem can captivate even the most cynical viewer
Oh, how parents will have related to Superworm (BBC One) on Christmas Day! In the opening pages of her popular 2012 picture book, the squishy pink hero…
The Lost Daughter, review: on a hideous holiday with Olivia Colman in this shiveringly intimate drama
15 cert, 122 min. Dir: Maggie Gyllenhaal One of the richest and most versatile strands of cinema in Hollywood’s golden age was the women’s picture: female-centred films,…
Landscapers, review: turning true crime into the most daring and dazzling drama of the year
From The Crown’s imperious monarch to a downtrodden murderer in a knitted beret. Never let it be said that Olivia Colman isn’t versatile, either in character or…
The new Olivia Colman drama set to reinvent ‘true crime’ on TV
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” said TS Eliot, but then he never had Netflix. In fact, it would appear that humankind cannot get enough of the…
Maggie Gyllenhaal interview: ‘Sex scenes? I’m kind of an expert’
Ferrante did read over the script, but gave only limited feedback. She gave her blessing for Gyllenhaal to change the story’s ending, though – albeit in ways…