The actor Elizabeth Olsen and I are in a London hotel, staring down at her dinner. She lifts the lid from one plate: a bowl
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Sunday with Will Poulter: ‘I leave the cooking to my mum, but we’ll do the dishes’
Sunday grub? Sunday lunch with my family has been the most important moment in the weekly calendar for as long as I can remember. It’s
Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school
RaMell Ross’s transcendentally moving and frightening film, adapted from the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead, runs at least initially on a kind of cognitive dissonance.
Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?
For better and for worse, The Substance, the new, buzzy body horror film, sends up oppressive beauty standards with the subtlety of a blowtorch. The
Maggie Smith found a clarity on stage that in some ways surpassed her screen work
Maggie Smith was an actor of legendary wit and style who, even off stage, seemed to have the capacity to deliver a one-line zinger. There’s
Effortless skill, mixed salads and a certain impatience with life: Michael Palin remembers Maggie Smith
To work with Maggie Smith, as I did in The Missionary and A Private Function, was to be in the presence of pure acting gold.
‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner
Maggie Smith seemed in her performances to care nothing about being loved, but she was as widely adored as an actor can be. The two
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
Maggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor described by peers as being “one of a kind” and possessed of a “sharp eye, sharp wit and formidable
Maggie Smith was the grandest of grande dames – and a true cinematic superstar | Peter Bradshaw
Maggie Smith thought she was famous after The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, in 1969; she gave a glorious, Oscar-winning performance in her mid-30s in
Killer Heat review – overcooked Jo Nesbø adaptation is deathly dull
What might seem like a relatively easy ask on paper – the director of a buzzy festival hit adapting a Jo Nesbø short story with