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Musical savant, fashion maven, provocateur, philanthropist. When multi-hyphenate Lady Gaga first added 'leading actress' to the list with 2018's A Star is Born, she was Oscar-nominated. Now, she's back with House of Gucci. Can Ridley Scott's film cement her path as a major movie player? Antonia Blyth meets Gaga to dig…

In 1952, the second season of CBS sitcom I Love Lucy set viewing records that, 70 years later, have yet to be beaten. The star was Lucille Ball, a lovable klutz from New York, and her husband Ricky was played by her real-life spouse—Cuban refugee Desi Arnaz. Together they founded Desilu Productions, soon to be the No…

After a charged premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín's Spencer has become one of this season's hottest contenders. A haunting study of one particular Christmas at Sandringham for Diana, Princess of Wales, as her marriage falters and the Royal fairytale turns grim, Spencer features a landmark performance …

Against all the odds, Denis Villeneuve has delivered the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 classic novel Dune. But a complex narrative and the difficulty of shooting a blockbuster in the scorching deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan became the least of the challenges when a global pandemic threatened to disrupt the…

Mj Rodriguez is the latest cast member of FX's groundbreaking series Pose to make Emmy history, earning the very first lead acting nomination for a trans woman. In conversation with Ryan Fleming she reflects on an achievement she never thought possible, and what she hopes it will mean. Growing up in Newark in the…

Many of us have been itching to dip our toes into the water of real life ever since the vaccine rollout hinted at an end to the pandemic lockdown. For Léa Seydoux, the next 11 days will be a plunge: with four films in Cannes' Official Selection, three of them in Competition, her festival itinerary will be relentless…

The fourth season of The Crown detailed the first encounter between Prince Charles and the young Diana Spencer, played by Josh O'Connor and Emma Corrin respectively, whose ill-fated marriage became one of the most picked apart tabloid news engines of the 20th Century. Joe Utichi meets Corrin and O'Connor to learn…

Late-night television hasn't changed a great deal since Johnny Carson took over The Tonight Show nearly 60 years ago. There's been the odd exception, such as Arsenio Hall's syndicated show finding a young audience and bringing Bill Clinton's saxophone licks to the country, or Joan Rivers briefly interloping on Fox…

If social media is any indication, the fact that Thuso Mbedu had 1.3 million Instagram followers even before her U.S. breakthrough role in The Underground Railroad was even released should point to the arrival of a fully formed star. Mbedu's following comes from her native South Africa, where she made a name on…

Barry Jenkins turns to television for his latest project, a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, Starring Thuso Mbedu, which hit Amazon Prime Video last week. It's his most ambitious project yet, set on a grander canvas and with much greater emotional stakes…

Can a non-English language film win Best Picture on the American industry's grandest night of the year? It is a question Oscar prognosticators have been chewing over for months, with increasing intensity, as Bong Joon Ho's Parasite has been making history at every turn. Parasite's life began at the Cannes Film…

In a Parisian hotel suite in late November, Quentin Tarantino is hard at work. He is in town to launch the theatrical re-release of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, with a new cut that adds additional grace notes to the version released over the summer, and he's on a mini European tour in support of the movie's home…