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‘I’m like, ugh’: Why Sigourney Weaver sometimes hates looking in the mirror

Playing a teenage Na’vi in Avatar: Fire and Ash took the Hollywood veteran back to her awkward years.

  • Michael Idato

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Emily Blunt’s Devil Wears Prada character, Emily Charlton, has attained iconic status since the film’s release nearly 20 years ago. “People still quote it to me every day – or misquote it.”

From The Devil Wears Prada, Emily Blunt found fame and a famous brother-in-law

The 42-year-old is about to revive her most iconic role, which she landed after a failed audition for another film.

  • Robbie Collin
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

Satin tights, fighting for her rights: The spin that changed the world

Fifty years after it premiered, Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman remains the definitive blueprint for female power.

  • Michael Idato
Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, examines questions of Jewish identity. 

This story made Scarlett Johansson cry. It was time to keep a 28-year-old promise

Delaying her directorial debut was no longer an option when the Hollywood star read Eleanor the Great.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Ariana Grande in Wicked: For Good.

Too long, too busy and trying too hard – but the Wicked sequel will thrill fans

The big-screen adaptation of the beloved stage musical comes to a conclusion in Wicked: For Good.

  • Sandra Hall
Jaws (1975)

We’re gonna need a bigger budget: Festival cancels waterside screening of Jaws

Brisbane International Film Festival may have bitten off more than it can chew with one of its showpiece events called off.

  • Nick Dent
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Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in Wicked: For Good.

‘We all gasped’: witches weren’t the only thing haunting Wicked: For Good

He’s made a string of hit movies, but director Jon M. Chu says something was different this time around.

  • Michael Idato
Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst in London this month.

Nice guy at home, nasty on screen: Why Jesse Plemons loves his latest maniac

He’s Kirsten Dunst’s adoring husband and the devoted father of their two young sons. But what happens when the award-winning Texan gets on screen?

  • Stephanie Bunbury
A young Ben Stiller with his father Jerry, and mother, Anne.

Ben Stiller made a film about his parents. What he found was not always easy

Faced with his father’s accumulated treasures, the acclaimed writer and director did the only thing that made sense to him.

  • Michael Idato
Julia Roberts as Alma in After the Hunt.

Julia Roberts’ anti-woke film feels hopelessly dated in Trump’s America

There’s nothing wrong with the film’s premise: an apparently false accusation of sexual assault on the Yale campus. But here’s why it fails.

  • Michelle Goldberg

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