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Kate Moss takes boyfriend Nikolai von Bismarck's arm joining Robert Pattinson and Demi Moore on Dior front row

The It couple joined a host of A-listers for the Dior Men’s Spring 2025 collection in Paris

Evening Standard

Rapman on Supacell, his Jay-Z approved superhero series: ‘I can tell when a black TV show has a white creator’

The rapper turned filmmaker behind Netflix’s new superhero show talks about the furore around Blue Story, gangs and The Little Mermaid

Evening Standard

Netflix's The Beautiful Game trailer looks like a feel-good winner

Based on a real competition, The Beautiful Game is a movie about second chances and soccer as a force for good.

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Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown leads an exclusive look at 2024's new Netflix movies with her upcoming fantasy epic

Here's your exclusive new look at some upcoming 2024 Netflix movies

Total Film

Top Boy’s style legacy — how it mastered London’s street uniform

Getting streetwear spot on was essential to the show’s authenticity. Hayley Spencer speaks to the stylists and obsessives to uncover the real-world impact of its aesthetic

Evening Standard

Top Boy star Araloyin Oshunremi: ‘I get deep, deep DMs from fans. Some of the messages make me cry’

The actor talks about how playing Stef made him funnier, how his experience growing up on an estate differed to the show and Top Boy’s impact on bringing through a generation of black acting talent

Evening Standard

From council estates to celebrity superfans: farewell Top Boy, the drama that changed TV for ever

It launched movie stars, redefined what gangster stories could be and grew into a mature, world-class drama. As the London gangster epic’s final series looms, it leaves Black British culture on the ascent

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The week in theatre: A Mirror; Next to Normal – review

Sam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder is edgily transfixing

The Guardian - UK

A Mirror review – Pirandellian wedding drama throws a bouquet of unrealities

Sam Holcroft’s drama delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch

The Guardian - UK

Ricky Gervais: I prefer stand-up to TV because they can’t censor me

The comedian says he would ‘be quite happy’ to do no more TV work

Evening Standard

A Mirror at the Almeida Theatre review: thrilling and infuriating in equal measure

Clever, thoughtful and tricksy, Sam Holcroft’s work about a playwright in an authoritarian regime is also exasperating

Evening Standard

Micheal Ward on his stage debut A Mirror at the Almeida, the actors’ strike and his ‘crazy’ fear of animals

The star of Top Boy, Small Axe and Empire of Light is heading to the stage for the first time: ‘I just want to blow people away with everything I do’

Evening Standard

Playwright Sam Holcroft: ‘It felt like everyone else got a rulebook that I didn’t’

Her latest play, A Mirror, mixes her keen eye for human behaviour and her experiences in North Korea, but there’s another influence that the writer has never spoken about – her autism diagnosis

The Guardian - UK

Escape to the English seaside and sink into the red velvet seats of Empire of Light

With cinematography by Roger Deakins and performances from Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, Empire of Light captures the vintage splendour of England’s past

The Guardian - AU

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Empire of Light, Sam Mendes's homage to cinema, remains lifeless despite moving performances from Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward

In Empire of Light, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917; Skyfall) draws on his mother's experiences to craft an unusual love story and ode to cinema, set against the backdrop of Thatcherism.

ABC News

Sam Mendes's latest film, Empire of Light, is about the power of cinema and the stigma of mental illness

The COVID pandemic gave a lot of people time to think and reflect. Some made sourdough, some learned to knit. Director Sam Mendes wrote his first film.

Daily Mirror

Olivia Colman unrecognisable with yellow teeth and white hair ahead of new TV role

Olivia Colman looks a world away from her days as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, as her new role as Miss Havisham in the BBC's Great Expectations drama sees her don a rotting wedding dress and yellow teeth

The Independent UK

Empire of Light review: Sam Mendes strands Olivia Colman in an oddly impersonal love affair

There’s tender care in each frame, but this limp weepie is narratively ice cold

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Olivia Colman says affair with younger man was most 'terrifying' part of new film

Olivia Colman plays a lonely cinema worker having an affair with two men, including a younger colleague, in her new movie, Empire of Light, which she describes as the "most terrifying" part

The Guardian - UK

‘She’s breaking the walls down!’ Olivia Colman and Sam Mendes on mothers, mental illness and the movies

Empire of Light is Mendes’ most personal film to date. He and its stars, including Colman, Micheal Ward and Toby Jones, talk medication, escapism and kicking down sandcastles

Wales Online

Olivia Colman shares conversation she had with much younger actor that left her cringing during a love scene

The star tells all on BBC's The Graham Norton Show on New Year's Eve

The Independent UK

Olivia Colman details ‘slightly embarrassing’ sex scenes with Empire of Light co-star Micheal Ward

New Sam Mendes film is a love story set in 1980s Margate

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Empire of Light' is an ode to the movies, more or less

From its first moments, in which an employee played by Olivia Colman opens the grand, golden Empire cinema for the day, "Empire of Light" feels like a love letter to the experience of moviegoing.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Empire of Light’ splices together mismatched ideas at a struggling theater

Olivia Colman stars as the lonely staffer with mental health issues in disappointing effort from the talented Sam Mendes.

The Guardian - UK

Toronto film festival 2022 roundup – Spielberg, Mendes and a deep, joyous love of cinema

Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes offered paeans to the silver screen, Viola Davis dazzled as a gung-ho warrior and Daniel Craig brought the house down

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