The Bling Ring: Sofia Coppola’s prescient film of envy and excess
With a paparazzi flash and a Valencia-hued glare, it peeks into the world of the super rich, super privileged, super ugly. Call it the original brat summer
‘I’m starting to doubt everything’: Emma Corrin on Diana, being a Marvel villain, and an existential crisis
The actor is on the brink of megastardom thanks to a new role as a bald baddie, starring alongside Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds – so why all the self-doubt?
Jon Landau, Oscar-winning Titanic and Avatar producer, dies aged 63
Titanic became first film to gross $1bn globally, and Landau topped that with Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water
‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’
The actor wore prosthetic teeth, nose and glasses to experiment with anonymity – but found queueing and a lack of adoration challenging
‘Hot rodent boyfriend’ is the latest trend reframing men’s looks – why can’t we extend this generosity towards women?
It seems as though at least once a year the internet creates a new category of unconventionally hot guys to thirst over – but this almost never goes in the other direction
Daily grind getting you down? Let’s celebrate the success of the ‘anti-nepo baby’ celebrities
Quinta Brunson, Lily Gladstone, Melissa McCarthy and Chappell Roan all worked long and hard for their big breaks. I’m so glad they stuck with it
Maya Hawke is honest about her privilege. Why are other nepo babies so defensive?
The actor has been frank about her luck and comfort. But many celebrity children refuse to acknowledge the influence of their rich and well-connected parents, writes Arwa Mahdawi
On the Cannes red carpet, it’s film-makers’ turn to shine
In this week’s newsletter: With few expectations or endorsement deals to suppress their style, the top directors at the film festival are breaking rules with chic, expressive outfits
Ditzy, unfiltered: why Drew Barrymore is Hollywood’s great survivor
The troubled child actor turned chatshow host faces flak for her toe-curling interview with Kamala Harris. But oversharing is all part of her shtick
Evolution of man: how Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society
The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024
Chris Pratt draws ire for razing historic 1950 LA home for sprawling mansion
Actor and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger dismantle 1950 Zimmerman house designed by architect Craig Ellwood
Eleanor Coppola, Emmy award winning director, dies aged 87
Coppola known for Hearts of Darkness, film chronicling tortured production of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now
An Irish Angel review – incident-packed teenage pregnancy comedy lurches into tragedy
This Northern Ireland-set feature veers unconvincingly from a schoolgirl’s abortion dilemma to a welter of subplots before a clumsy tonal shift
Susan Sarandon, Olivia Colman and Paul Mescal join star donors of Cinema for Gaza auction
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gives jam as swathe of film and TV celebrities add support, including Zone of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer and Thor’s Tessa Thompson
‘We said no to Elvis Presley sweat and James Dean condoms’: the agent making a killing from dead celebrities
Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than ever