Cannes 2026: Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard
The festival opened with a very French, very odd ceremony featuring Jane Fonda, Peter Jackson and bad impersonations of Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts
Jane Fonda
Your first eight novels disappear into the ether. Then you strike gold
It’s no surprise that Virginia Evans has found huge success with The Correspondent, which is now up for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction
A woman I knew dated Ted Turner
The late media mogul was a ‘deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate’ who idolised cinematic swashbuckler Rhett Butler
Chris O’Dowd and Jane Fonda to play Niall O’Dowd and Jean Kennedy Smith in peace process drama
Ciarán Hinds and John C Reilly also to star in Ceasefire, from In the Name of the Father writer Terry George
Ted Turner, CNN founder and pioneer of 24-hour news, dies at 87
A powerful US media and entertainment figure, he later became one of the world’s leading environmentalists
At the Oscars, a classic story of art rebuking commerce
The party had a euphoric vibe – until two famous guests had a bristling smackdown
SAG awards 2025: Colin Farrell wins for The Penguin as Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet and Conclave take big prizes
Colin Farrell pays moving tribute to sons James and Henry ‘who have made my life so much more special than I ever truly thought possible’
Jane Fonda: ‘I don’t feel like an old person. I’m much younger than I was when I was in my 20s’
At 87, the actor and activist has become the face of a new luxury trainers campaign
‘Samia is in Rafah. She says there’s thousands of kids living in tents. They’re all starving and freezing’
What’s Next For?: Street artist Emmalene Blake has been highlighting the suffering and hope of Palestinian people
JLo seems not so much to mix metaphors as to cut them with coke
Patrick Freyne: As the singer clambers into her own heart in her musical fantasia, an uncharitable critic might suggest she is climbing up a different body part
Palme d’Or winner Justine Triet: ‘You could take my film, decide I’m obsessed with killing men and use it against me’
The director of the remarkable Anatomy of a Fall likes to work on the boundary where fact and fiction blur into one another
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: starry cast fails to save an amiable but busy yarn
Animated film can’t decide if it’s a menstrual metaphor, generational conflict story, Nickelodeon sitcom or underwater Harry Potter
Jane Fonda: French director asked to sleep with me to ‘see what my orgasms were like’ for a role
Actor says René Clément made the comments during the making of their 1964 thriller Joy House
Oscars: the 25 best winning lead acting performances of all time
From Bergman, Bogart and Brando to De Niro, Portman and Taylor, the competition is stellar - and Streep doesn’t make the cut
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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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