15.44 BST Last modified on Thu 15 Oct 2020 17.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 15. Grimsby (2016) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This is one for Sacha Baron Cohen, his professional associates, his fans and all of humanity to forget. The idea is that he plays a daft football fan from Grimsby called […]
12.24 BST Last modified on Tue 13 Oct 2020 14.14 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Margaret Nolan as the masseuse Dink with Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger (1964). Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock Margaret Nolan, the actor best known for appearing in the title sequence for Goldfinger and for a string of appearances […]
07.24 BST Last modified on Fri 9 Oct 2020 16.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Deaf U. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix When Nyle DiMarco, an actor, model and disability rights activist, attended Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for the deaf and hard of hearing in Washington DC in […]
09.50 BST Last modified on Fri 9 Oct 2020 09.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Blowing them away … Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns Fifty years ago this week, all hell broke loose on Dick Cavett’s US talkshow. The host was interviewing the British actor Trevor Howard before a live studio […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Fri 9 Oct 2020 04.22 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email An attacking emphasis puts the onus on learning to defend … Fifa 21. Photograph: EA Sports Never mind football coming home. This year, football had to work from home. Every major competition shut down at the height […]
10.55 BST Last modified on Tue 6 Oct 2020 10.57 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Clark Middleton, pictured in TV series The Path. Photograph: Universal Television/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images Actor Clark Middleton, who starred in Twin Peaks and The Blacklist, has died aged 63 after contracting West Nile virus. As well as […]
17.09 BST Last modified on Fri 25 Sep 2020 17.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Uncharted waters … Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 72nd annual Emmy awards over Zoom. Photograph: ABC/AFP/Getty As with other creative industries, the film business is reeling under the impact of coronavirus. Crews are struggling to shoot, cinemas are […]
16.00 BST Last modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 16.26 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Matt Bomer: ‘The younger generation I hope will take the time to understand everything our community has been through over the years.’ Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Contour by Getty Images Matt Bomer looks too good to be true: zinging […]
08.03 BST Last modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 08.04 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson in The Comey Rule. Photograph: CBS Television Studios/Ben Mark Holzberg/Showtime The Comey Rule, a new miniseries from Captain Phillips scribe Billy Ray, airing […]
10.11 BST Last modified on Tue 22 Sep 2020 10.43 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Thought Madonna might be there’ … Jackie Stallone in 2005, when she filmed Celebrity Big Brother. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images Jackie Stallone, the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone, and best known to British viewers for her turn […]
16.25 BST Last modified on Tue 8 Sep 2020 17.12 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Bette Midler in Coastal Elites. Photograph: HBO The questions of who a work of art is for and what it’s meant to accomplish usually prove germane in the process of criticism, and particularly so in the case […]
11.30 BST Last modified on Fri 4 Sep 2020 14.49 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mumblecore … Robert Pattinson and John David Washington in Tenet. Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy There is a wonderful exchange in Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Tenet, between Robert Pattinson and John David Washington. “Hngmmhmmh,” says Pattinson. “Mmghh nmmhhmmmm nghhh,” […]
09.48 BST Last modified on Mon 24 Aug 2020 10.31 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Louis Theroux: ‘The ravages of the ageing process have left their mark.’ Photograph: BBC It is a strange feeling looking back at a much earlier version of yourself on television, a queasy mixture of recognition and distance, […]
11.00 BST Last modified on Fri 21 Aug 2020 10.40 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tom Ellis: ‘Theatre is like rehab for acting’. Photograph: Allegra Messina Tom Ellis is waiting. The coronavirus shut down production of his TV series Lucifer. He is recovering from surgery following some sort of food reaction – […]
13.09 BST Last modified on Thu 13 Aug 2020 16.08 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From villain to hero … Aparna Shewakramani on Indian Matchmaking. Photograph: Netflix I have always loved a good villain. Sometimes I have loved to hate them, but often I have simply loved them. A doll of Maleficent, […]
15.23 BST Last modified on Wed 12 Aug 2020 18.27 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ertugrul appeals to the Muslim diaspora. On a trip to Istanbul two years ago, outside a restaurant a stone’s throw from the Blue Mosque, the waiter arrived. As he leaned forward to pass a menu, the name […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Thu 13 Aug 2020 08.02 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Brendan Hunt and Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso. Photograph: AP With an ever-expanding wealth of new content at our fingertips, with new platforms launching on what feels like a weekly basis, one is likelier than ever to […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Fri 31 Jul 2020 09.36 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The ‘biospherians’ during the construction of the Biosphere 2 project in 1990, as featured in Spaceship Earth. Photograph: Philippe Plailly As we emerge blinking into the sunlight after lockdown, many of us will be daring to dream […]
16.49 BST Last modified on Fri 31 Jul 2020 21.02 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Because everyone is in masks, things are quieter than usual …’ A film crew shooting in Paris last month. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA “You get used to sticking a six-inch cotton-wool bud up your nose and down your […]
10.36 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 10.38 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 1:15 Kermit the frog talks to the Guardian’s TV editor about his favourite lockdown shows – video How have you been spending the past few months? Oh, you know, like everybody else, just kind of […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email It is 8.45am in Los Angeles and Ramy Youssef is at his freshest on what will be a long day full of press interviews. “This is just one of those days of like 30 questions in a row of ‘How is real-life Ramy different from […]
20.41 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Jul 2020 22.24 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regis Philbin was a huge figure on US television. Photograph: Bennett Raglin/WireImage Regis Philbin, a host who became a beloved fixture of US daytime television, has died. He was 88. Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 21 Jul 2020 16.15 BST Southern Winds‘There is a feeling of loneliness through all the photos in this book. It’s either a man walking alone in the middle of a deserted street or scenes where there is an absence of human beings.’ Road Not Taken by Arnaud Montagard is published by […]
15.46 BST Last modified on Fri 17 Jul 2020 08.48 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith on Red Table Photograph: Facebook Watch This will likely go down as one of the most dramatic years in recent history. So much so, that Jada Pinkett Smith sitting across from […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Fri 17 Jul 2020 07.17 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘The 80s saw massive explosions in politics and culture’: Idris Elba as Walter in In the Long Run. Photograph: Justin Downing/Sky “History maketh the man,” says Idris Elba. The actor is quoting his late father, a man […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Photograph: Derek Blanks When Brandy Norwood was 14 she went to see her idol Whitney Houston in concert. Stuck in the nosebleed seats, she decided to blag her way backstage at the end of the show. “I was just telling security: ‘I’m going to be […]
15.14 BST Last modified on Mon 13 Jul 2020 16.49 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Who’s the best at the Sims? Watch Spark’d to find out. Photograph: EA Games This is a wonderful time to be a person who prefers watching video games to playing them. The Sonic the Hedgehog movie is […]
22.21 BST Last modified on Mon 13 Jul 2020 23.09 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Naya Rivera, who has been found dead at California’s Lake Piru. Photograph: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP The Glee actor Naya Rivera has been found dead after drowning in a California lake. Rivera, 33, who appeared in the Ryan Murphy […]
16.06 BST Last modified on Fri 3 Jul 2020 11.32 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email MasterClass tutors, clockwise from top left, Werner Herzog, Margaret Atwood, Steve Martin and Misty Copeland. Composite: Aaron Nace/Drew Guria/Masterclass ‘I lived in a hammock in the jungle for one-and-a-half years,” says Werner Herzog. “And it was fine. […]
11.05 BST Last modified on Mon 29 Jun 2020 12.55 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I adore the sound of scissors, but nothing comes close to a guitar or a violin’ … António Variações. Photograph: Teresa Couto Pinto In the midst of wild olive trees, a muscular man sporting pink hair and […]