How Miss Piggy went from minor Muppet to TV’s top hog
Miss Piggy began as a bit player, but a sassy attitude and a karate chop carried her to the pinnacle of pop culture
Emma Stone
Hi-yah! Miss Piggy was one of my most hostile interviewees. Now she’s in line for the Barbie treatment
Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are joining forces on a porcine production. Expect a postmodern jamboree peopled by the industry’s slickest and shiniest
Four new films to see this week: Kontinental 25, Kenny Dalglish, Bugonia and Palestine 36
Hiam Abbass, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and Eszter Tompa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 31st, 2025
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons on Bugonia: ‘I forget all the time that I won best actor at Cannes’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s careering, unsettling film lets Stone demonstrate her range, as her character tries every trick to win over Plemons’s twitching lunatic
Bugonia review: Mid-ranking Yorgosia that just about justifies its many indulgences
Taut, fabulous-looking chamber piece starring Emma Stone could survive staging in a pub theatre
Jessie Buckley is unbeatable at the Oscars. Unless this happens
Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actors
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats ready
Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
Eddington review: Pandemic psychodrama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal is a fascinating experiment
Ari Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that was
Cannes: 15 of the most unforgettable looks, from Pedro Pascal to Rihanna
Actors, musicians and models mostly adhered to the French film festival’s new ‘no nudity’ rule on the red carpet
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
April director Dea Kulumbegashvili: ‘The woman was still alive, but they already knew they would not be able to save her’
The film-maker was taken aback by an incident at a hospital as she prepared to make her second feature. Everyday life in Georgia can be horrible, she says
Oscars 2025 red carpet: Ariana Grande sets the standard while Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
Gowns holding space were popular this year, with Ariana Grande setting the standard in Schiaparelli. Among men, Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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