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Back in Action on Netflix is a new low for Hollywood creativity

21 January 2025 at 22:00

Cameron Diaz’s dismal new movie with Jamie Foxx – and Diaz’s first film in more than a decade – is proof that style and craft have completely dropped out of a particular kind of action comedy, writes Adam White. Remember when even the most conventional of blockbusters used to be made with care?

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The Sundays were the dream-pop greats who disappeared without trace

18 January 2025 at 22:00

Thirty-five years after the release of their debut album, which housed their seminal break-up song ‘Here’s Where the Story Ends’, the band behind a number of pretty, ethereal earworms still inspire adoration – and questions over their decision to drop out of the limelight three records into their career, writes Adam White

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

17 January 2025 at 22:00

‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned her a Bafta nomination, and could send her back to the Academy Awards, too. She speaks to Adam White

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‘I am devastated and furious’: 12 actors controversially recast in films, from Johnny Depp to Rachel Weisz

13 January 2025 at 23:28

From salary disputes and poor scripts to feuds and voiceovers that apparently sound ‘too old’, Hollywood is filled with stories of emergency recastings due to off-screen conflicts, writes Adam White

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Cameron Diaz walked away from Hollywood 10 years ago – her return is worth celebrating

12 January 2025 at 22:00

A decade after leaving acting behind, the star of ‘There’s Something About Mary’ and ‘Charlie’s Angels’ has un-retired for a new Netflix film. Might she now be afforded some respect, asks Adam White

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Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson: ‘Being desired is not something I’ve been particularly used to’

10 January 2025 at 22:00

The sought-after British star of ‘Triangle of Sadness’ and ‘The Iron Claw’ speaks to Adam White about shooting graphic BDSM scenes with Nicole Kidman in his provocative new thriller, privilege in the acting industry, and why he’d hate for his looks to be his ‘sole currency’

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‘I couldn’t take it anymore’: 13 films that made audiences faint and be sick

8 January 2025 at 00:00

From the ambulances called to a Cineworld in Bolton to the infamous castration scene cut for inciting panic attacks, Adam White gathers 13 notorious films that truly tested the endurance of their viewers

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David Fincher reveals secrets from Se7en, from casting near-misses to the (false) rumour about that head

7 January 2025 at 03:10

EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to ‘The Independent’, the filmmaker also revealed the hilariously blunt response he received from Gene Hackman after he offered the veteran actor a part in the film

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If the Golden Globes are going the boring route, what’s the point of them?

6 January 2025 at 01:48

At last night’s Globes, arthouse cinema reigned supreme and ‘Wicked’ went home (practically) empty-handed – fine for the Oscars, but this ceremony is meant to be a panoply of chaos and nonsense, writes Adam White

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Who will win at the 2025 Golden Globes, and who should win

Ahead of tonight’s ceremony, Louis Chilton and Adam White have surveyed the major categories at the Globes to determine which films and TV shows will reign supreme, from ‘The Substance’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’ to ‘Nobody Wants This’ and ‘Anora’

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Xena star Lucy Lawless on her blazing documentary debut: ‘I’m a cult person… I’m not a corporate girl’

2 January 2025 at 22:00

The former Warrior Princess talks to Adam White about her ‘sex, drugs and punk’ portrait of war zone camerawoman Margaret Moth, her turn away from acting, and her sadness over the right-wing distortion of what it means to be ‘woke’

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25 movies to look out for in 2025, from Superman to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

A bald Emma Stone, a mad Jennifer Lawrence and lots and lots of Robert Pattinsons lead our 25 must-see films for the 12 months ahead, as selected by Jacob Stolworthy and Adam White

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Wallace and Gromit’s makers on the terrifying return of Feathers McGraw: ‘People genuinely hate him’

23 December 2024 at 22:00

Aardman has produced its first feature-length ‘Wallace & Gromit’ since 2008, and finds an old foe plotting revenge. Adam White speaks to the film’s cast and crew about Britishness, artificial intelligence, and moving forward after the death of the original Wallace, actor Peter Sallis

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Inside the wild Robbie Williams biopic: ‘It’s sad seeing the monkey do cocaine’

21 December 2024 at 22:16

The unexpectedly brilliant ‘Better Man’ dives into the rise, fall and rise again of one of Britain’s greatest pop stars… who is depicted as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee. Adam White speaks to its director Michael Gracey about monkeys, mayhem and why Robbie was nervous about Gary Barlow seeing the script

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Queer’s Drew Starkey on Daniel Craig: ‘We were so comfortable with our love scenes – it wasn’t a big deal at all’

11 December 2024 at 22:00

After playing the former 007’s object of desire in Luca Guadagnino’s very erotic new drama, the ‘Outer Banks’ actor is poised for stardom. He talks to Adam White about fame, anxiety, and why you probably shouldn’t show him screenshots of his nude scenes in public

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Cate Blanchett on her wild new film: ‘I can’t talk about the monkey brains – I signed an NDA’

5 December 2024 at 22:00

The Australian Oscar winner has collaborated with the filmmaker Guy Maddin on ‘Rumours’, a satirical horror comedy about politicians lost in the woods. They speak to Adam White about stupidity, retirement and why ‘the big elephant in the room is overpopulation’

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‘I felt violated’: 16 times celebrities hated their own biopics

5 December 2024 at 00:23

From Madonna calling the writers of a planned film of her life ‘charlatans and fools’, to David Letterman’s claim that his biopic depicted him as ‘a circus chimp’, Adam White has curated some of the funniest times celebrities hit out at stories based on their lives

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Isabella Rossellini: ‘I was afraid to be compared to my mother’

30 November 2024 at 22:00

The legendary star of ‘Blue Velvet’ is earning Oscar buzz for her performance as a mischievous nun in the papal thriller ‘Conclave’. She speaks to Adam White about comparisons to her mother Ingrid Bergman, the controversy that surrounded her star-making film, and her romances with Martin Scorsese and David Lynch

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