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Mr & Mrs Mahi review – Indian cricketing love story is more than just a boys’ own tale

Janhvi Kapoor plays a medical student with the prospect of a pro career in the game, with Rajkummar Rao as the husband who coaches herHindi cinema has thus far spent 2024 in retreat, its commercial failures compounded by a successful run of south Indian crowdpleasers. Timed with Kohli-like precision to arrive at the conclusion of the IPL, this gentle...

Sun Jun 2, 2024 09:56
Rebel Wilson says idea only gay actors can play gay roles ‘is total nonsense’

Australian actor tells BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs performers should be able to play any role they wantAustralian actor Rebel Wilson has said the idea that “only straight actors can play straight roles and gay actors can play gay roles” is “total nonsense”.The Pitch Perfect star, 44, spoke to radio presenter Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert...

Sun Jun 2, 2024 02:52
Maya Hawke: I’m OK with having a life I don’t deserve due to nepotism

Actor, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, says she rejected path of ‘changing name and getting nose job’The Stranger Things star Maya Hawke has said she is “comfortable with not deserving” the kind of life she has.The American actor and singer, the daughter of Hollywood actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, said her relationship with them was “positive”,...

Sat Jun 1, 2024 21:47
Young Woman and the Sea review – handsome if formulaic 1920s swimming biopic

Daisy Ridley stars in the true-life tale of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the Channel, in a drama that stretches the truth somewhatYou wait years for a stirring feminist true-life endurance swimming drama, then two come along within 12 months of each other. Young Woman and the Sea stars Daisy Ridley as Gertrude (Trudy) Ederle, the plucky butcher’s...

Sat Jun 1, 2024 17:43
Once Upon a Time in America at 40: Sergio Leone’s brutal gangster epic endures

The extravagant crime drama was mishandled upon release, hacked apart by Warners Bros, but time has been kind to the fuller, bleaker versionThere’s no mob whacking in movie history as gruesome as the job Warner Bros did on Sergio Leone’s final feature, Once Upon a Time in America, a sumptuous crime epic that Leone tried to cut down from 269 minutes...

Sat Jun 1, 2024 11:46
Robert De Niro denied leadership award after speaking out against Trump

National Association of Broadcasters rescinds honor after actor’s comments outside ex-president’s criminal trial in New YorkFilm actor Robert De Niro was scheduled to accept a leadership award from the National Association of Broadcasters, but the group has rescinded the award after the celebrity spoke out against Donald Trump outside the former president’s...

Sat Jun 1, 2024 11:46

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