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March 2024

‘They were the original gangsters!’ How Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen wages war on the aristocracy

King of blokey capers Guy Ritchie is back with a wild tale of a secret weed farm in a stately home – and the duke who gets drawn into a crime gang. Its stars talk about taking on the aristos, training foxes – and why women are bossing things at last

May 2023

Little Bone Lodge review – Joely Richardson is scarily fierce in tense thriller

Secrets are revealed as Richardson’s matriarch turns out not to be just a simple farmer’s wife when protecting her family

June 2022

The week in TV: Suspect; The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN; Lenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain; Ellie and Natasia

TV review
Suspect review – James Nesbitt rages endlessly in unbearable Luther-lite

February 2020

Color Out of Space review – Nicolas Cage goes cosmic in freaky sci-fi horror

A repulsive alien organism is unleashed on Earth in Richard Stanley’s scary, hokey – and often funny – extravaganza

January 2020

British stars unveil alternative Bafta list in film diversity row

Actors and directors speak out over awards omissions and highlight ‘invisible talent’ that deserves a place on the red carpet

April 2017

The Hatton Garden Job review – hackneyed heist

The Hatton Garden Job review – a swift and methodical theft of everyone's time

January 2017

Vanessa Redgrave at 80: a career on stage – in pictures

Vanessa Redgrave has captivated theatre audiences since her early days at the RSC. She has starred alongside her father, siblings and children, enthralled Broadway and is still commanding the stage as she enters her ninth decade. We salute some of her finest performances

June 2016

The G2 interview
Vanessa Redgrave on why she was ready to die: ‘Trying to live was getting too tiring’
The legendary actor, 79, on ageing, religion, human rights and the notorious Oscars speech that stalled her Hollywood career

April 2016

Papa: Hemingway in Cuba review – Hollywood's Havana horror

The first Hollywood film to be shot in Cuba since Castro isn’t close but no cigar – the Ernest Hemingway biopic is an oceangoing embarrassment

December 2015

Papa: film about Hemingway's Havana years raises hope for Hollywood in Cuba

Biopic about American author’s life in Cuba makes history as first US production filmed on the island since 1960 trade embargo

October 2015

The Wars of the Roses review – a revival that’s more pageant than revolution

The Wars of the Roses review – Trevor Nunn's courageous remount of cycle is thrilling theatre

September 2015

Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses – the Elizabethan era’s Game of Thrones

Royalty, revolution, adultery ... Trevor Nunn explains what motivated him to revive the great Shakespearean trilogy of The Wars of the Roses: the first box set

July 2015

The Q&A
Q&A: Joely Richardson
‘What do I most dislike about my appearance? That I look really hard’

May 2014

A farewell to arms? Hemingway biopic heralds new chapter for Cuba and US

Papa, about friendship between author and journalist, is first big Hollywood movie to be filmed on island in more than 50 years

November 2012

Ivanov – review

Ethan Hawke's visceral approach to Ivanov seems at odds with Joely Richardson's quietly controlled Anna in an off-kilter yet involving production, writes Alexis Soloski

June 2012

TV review
TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; Joely Richardson on Shakespeare's Women
Grayson Perry is a true wizard – he takes the musings of the upper classes and transmutes them into art, writes Lucy Mangan

March 2012

The Lady from the Sea – review

Joely Richardson follows the family tradition with a bristling performance as Ellida in Ibsen's classic, writes Killian Fox

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