The free market can’t stop AI actress Tilly Norwood
There’s no economic incentive not to use AI actors – but doing so is morally repulsive
Acting
Friday
Friday
Why does Jared Leto still have a career?
The ‘Tron: Ares’ star represents a cautionary tale for our times
Monday
Kenneth Branagh: the luckiest man in Hollywood?
He has been given break after break and has done his best with them
Thursday
Noël Coward, the English playwright who loved all things American
In order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
Thursday
Angela Lansbury was so much more than Murder, She Wrote
Her passing demands a reflection on a stunning career
Wednesday
No success like failure
Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
Thursday
Should a black British actor play Harriet Tubman?
A divisive movie for divisive times
Thursday
Scarlett Johansson should only be allowed to play Scarlett Johansson in movies about Scarlett Johansson
Actors playing the parts of characters with whom they share no lived experience is nothing new
Monday
The brief bravery of Scarlett Johansson
Perhaps the actress would be better off playing a tree than a person with convictions
Thursday
If Annette Bening isn’t Oscar-nominated, I’ll eat my hat and also yours
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool is plainly wonderful, and stars Annette Bening, who is plainly wonderful, as Gloria Grahame, a one-time Hollywood movie star who in later life hits on hard times — ‘a big name in black and white. Not doing too well in colour,’ comments her landlady at one point — and embarks on a romance with a young English actor who is 30 years her junior. It is based on a true memoir. It is a love story, told tenderly, bravely, smartly, movingly. And believably. Older women, it seems, can be interesting, complicated, vital, attractive and sexual. Who knew? (But don’t spread the word, or they’ll
