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Ant McPartlin reveals son’s ‘trendy’ baby name - and a baby name expert believes the choice is set to rise in popularity

The I'm A Celeb presenter has jumped on the unisex baby name trend with a sweet and unique choice

GoodToKnow · May 15, 2024

Alone time: reassessing Greta Garbo, 100 years after her screen debut

The icy glamour of Garbo’s doomed heroines is genuinely iconic, but cinema’s most famous loner could also do comedy. A century after her first appearance – and 83 years since her last, here’s why Hollywood missed her so badly

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2024

Streaming: the best films about drinking

Be your January dry or anything but, here’s to boozing in the movies, from The Lost Weekend to Sideways, Whisky Galore! and Harvey

The Guardian - UK · Jan 6, 2024

From Some like it Hot to The Apartment: Jack Lemmon’s 10 best films

Whether playing a fastidious housemate, the father of a lost child in Pinochet’s Chile, or a social drinker descending into alcoholism, Lemmon gave enough memorable performances to forge an award-winning career spanning nearly half a century. Graeme Ross picks his favourites

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2023

Jack Lemmon’s 10 best films: From ‘Some like it Hot’ to ‘The Apartment’

Whether playing a fastidious housemate, the father of a lost child in Pinochet’s Chile, or a social drinker descending into alcoholism, Lemmon’s memorable performances allowed him to forge an award-winning career spanning nearly half a century

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2023

Sun, sea and flings: our writers on their favorite summertime movies

From Do the Right Thing to Now and Then, Guardian writers pick the film that reminds them most of the warmest months

The Guardian - US · Jul 20, 2023

Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Oscar winning film producer Walter Mirisch has died at age 101

The Independent UK · Feb 27, 2023

Former Academy president and legendary producer Walter Mirisch dies at 101

LOS ANGELES — Walter Mirisch, the last of three Mirisch brothers who produced or oversaw production of a string of highly regarded films in the 1950s and ’60s, including best picture Oscar winners “The Apartment,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” as well as comedy classics…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 26, 2023

Boyhood collides with masculinity in Oscar-nominated 'Close'

Set in the Belgian countryside, Lukas Dhont's “Close” is about a friendship between two 13-year-old boys whose tender intimacy is tested, tragically, when one seeks to fit in with more macho boys

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

What links Netflix’s Kaleidoscope to Jonathan Coe and Bryan Cranston?

A chain of connections that starts and finishes with the random-order eight-part crime thriller

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2022