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August

The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024.

Like a French film, it was genius and difficult, but a fitting end

The closing ceremony was slow, and some people walked out, but the fans stayed until the end and only the Hollywood part was a bit off.

  • Matthew Drummond
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The Paris Olympics are coming to a close after two spectacular weeks.

Tom Cruise dives into star-studded Paris closing ceremony

With golden fireworks, celebrities and thousands of athletes partying into the night, the closing ceremony put a final flourish to Paris’ first Games in a century.

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  • John Leicester

April

Victoria Beckham, centre, celebrates her 50th birthday on Saturday with her fellow Spice Girls, from left, Geri Horner, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton and Melanie Brown.

How the Spice Girls look so good at 50

The group were glowing at Victoria Beckham’s birthday party – here’s how they achieve their youthful look.

  • Sonia Haria and Caroline Leaper

My strange journey into the doomsday bunkers of the super-rich

The first season of Amazon’s ‘Fallout’ has captured the reality of some of the places that I had actually visited in “meatspace”.

  • Bradley Garrett
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July 2023

Experts say it is feasible that AI could some day create fake Tom Cruise movies, which don’t quite transgress copyright laws.

Watch out for the fake Tom Cruise

Be careful what you wish for, Hollywood studios, as you mess with the primal force of AI.

  • Maureen Dowd

May 2023

Prince William speaks during the concert at Windsor Castle in Windsor.

Coronation pomp gives way to a royal concert for all

Charles and Camilla and other senior royals joined an audience of 20,000 members of the public and invited guests for the ‘Coronation Concert’ at Windsor Castle.

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March 2023

Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel.

Why the Oscars are terrified of horror movies

Horror thrives at the box office and yields incredible performances. Why is it always snubbed by the academy?

  • Thomas Hobbs

January 2023

Michelle Yeoh with the award for best performance by an actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

At rehabbed Globes, Yeoh, Spielberg and White Lotus win

Stars and studios boycotted last year’s ceremony, which NBC opted not to televise, saying the awards needed time to make ‘meaningful reform’.

  • Jake Coyle
Australian nominees include Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth Debicki and Baz Luhrmann.

Elvis v Avatar: Golden Globes battle for credibility after scandals

One of the glitziest awards ceremonies is back on the Hollywood calendar after the event was abandoned over controversy around race and ethics.

  • Lisa Richwine

November 2022

Lee Child .

Lee Child on the joys of legal marijuana and a run in with Weinstein

After selling $4.6 billion worth of books and buying a Renoir with Hollywood money, the Jack Reacher creator is putting his pen down but not without the last word.

  • Ed Cumming

September 2022

Stars including Tom Cruise noticed the difference between Universal and Sony pay cheques and their Paramount pay cheques.

Cruise, Bullock say Paramount is cheating them out of millions

Actors and producers in Paramount films say their earnings are below what they should be because the studio receives less from its cable station than other studios.

  • Lucas Shaw

July 2022

Cruise the star burns as bright as any of his contemporaries, and far brighter than any who have come up since, in part because he continues to throw more and more of himself into his work and give up less and less of himself everywhere else

Why Tom Cruise is Hollywood’s last real movie star

Sheer force of will is now part of his potent mix of athleticism and charisma. That combination goes a long way to explain why Top Gun: Maverick is a hit.

  • Calum Marsh

May 2022

Tom Cruise battles real G-forces in a real cockpit for Top Gun Maverick.

Top Gun’s Maverick risks China’s anger with Taiwan flag

The much-lauded sequel features Cruise’s character wearing a bomber jacket with the Taiwanese flag, something considered an independence symbol by Beijing.

  • Zheping Huang and Chien-Hua Wan
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Tom Cruise attend the UK Premiere and Royal Film Performance of Top Gun on May 19.

Eight signs that you’re actually posh (and not just wealthy)

It’s getting harder every day to distinguish who’s who. But there are still ways to catch people out when they are pretending to be above their station.

  • Shane Watson
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Tom Cruise: a fantasy hero for aging white males who need to be reassured about their masculinity, and as an idol for a younger generation.

Tom Cruise is still the Top Gun

After a gap of 36 years, the sequel to the star’s signature film is a perfect piece of formula film-making.

  • John McDonald

January 2022

‘Power of the Dog’, ‘West Side Story’ lead in Golden Globes

Actors and directors largely ignored the Globes this year after criticising the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for its ethics and lack of black members.

  • Lisa Richwine

December 2021

Spider-Man: Into the Spidey-Verse.

2022 is a big year for big films

January will see the year off to an exceptionally strong start and if the cinemas only manage to stay open, we’ll have something good to remember.

  • John McDonald
Author Anne Rice  in California at a book signing in 2016.

Anne Rice, who spun gothic tales of vampires, dies at 80

Anne Rice was a largely unknown writer when she turned a short story she had written in the late 1960s into ‘Interview With the Vampire’.

  • Neil Genzlinger

June 2021

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Andrew Bieber, Head of Product at Car Next Door

Car Next Door goes ‘Minority Report’ on bad actors (not Tom Cruise)

The ride-sharing service is using AI or machine learning to spot bad drivers in advance and prevent them from damaging the cars of people on their platform.

  • John Davidson

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