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Critics wonder whether Jude Law used butt double as Henry VIII in Firebrand

Audience members at Cannes witnessed a shocking shot of the Tudor monarch’s bare behind

The Independent UK

Alicia Vikander and Jude Law get eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes for ‘brutal’ historical drama

A visibly emotional Vikander motioned for the cheering audience to stop before she was overwhelmed

The Independent UK

Firebrand review – Jude Law’s obese and oozy Henry VIII rules supreme in Catherine Parr drama

The ailing king’s misogyny is compellingly disturbing but Alicia Vikander is underused as his final wife

The Guardian - UK

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Cannes 2023 week one roundup – from Depp to Godard, the chaotic circus rolls on

Enraging, bracing and sublime, the 76th edition of the French film festival kicks off with a controversial visit from Johnny Depp and gallops through films from Pedro Almodóvar, Catherine Corsini, Steve McQueen and more

The Guardian - UK

Jude Law’s Henry VIII, Alicia Vikander’s Catherine Parr – and Johnny Depp as Louis XV: Cannes again lays on a king’s banquet

This year’s Cannes reveal does not disappoint: Scorsese, Glazer, Loach – and the prospect of a lot of powdered wigs

The Guardian - UK

Michael Fassbender set to star in Korean thriller alongside wife Alicia Vikander

Emmy-nominated Korean actress and model Hoyeon, who made her screen debut with Netflix’s Squid Game, also joins the cast

Irish Mirror

Daniel Day-Lewis over Bradley Cooper?!: The 13 most confusing Oscar screw-ups of all time

From awarding Rami Malek’s all-teeth performance as Freddie Mercury to Julianne Moore winning Best Actress for the wrong movie, the Oscars have always inspired confusion and frustration. Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, Adam White explores the most egregious mistakes in recent Oscar history

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Daniel Day-Lewis over Bradley Cooper?!: The 13 most confusing Oscar mistakes of all time

OSCARS 2025: From awarding Rami Malek’s all-teeth performance as Freddie Mercury to Julianne Moore winning Best Actress for the wrong movie, the Oscars have always inspired confusion and frustration. Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, Adam White explores the most egregious mistakes in recent Oscar history

The Independent UK

What links the 1975 to Alicia Vikander and Jack Antonoff?

Go down the rabbit hole to discover how Matty Healy is just a few degrees away from Hollywood stars and super producers

The Guardian - UK

The Patient star on a killer in therapy

The actor spoke to Salon about the Hulu series in which he coerces psychotherapist Steve Carell into treating him

Salon

The week in TV: Irma Vep; The Sandman; All or Nothing: Arsenal; Paper Girls

It’s meta madness as Olivier Assayas gets to remake his own film as a TV series; Old Testament meets Ouija board in Neil Gaiman’s dark fantasy; and the Gunners get a going over

The Guardian - UK

Devon Ross on fame, fashion and her new Sky show Irma Vep: ‘I want to play rockstars not the girlfriends’

Fashion’s hottest rising star discusses her foray into acting, her love of the Sixties and her idol Keith Richards

Evening Standard

Irma Vep review – Alicia Vikander is ‘pure evil but in a sexy kind of way’

The Oscar-winner stars as a velvet-catsuited villainess in this series about a film about a series of films – but while it may be headspinningly meta, it is also fun, witty and a total visual treat

The Guardian - UK

Irma Vep TV review: Alicia Vikander is mesmerising in this exercise in showbiz navel-gazing

Intriguing, though initially slow, Vikander’s performance will keep viewers watching

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

From Joyride to Irma Vep: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you fancy a gentle road trip with national treasure Olivia Colman or a mind-bending TV show about the making of a TV show, our critics have all bases covered

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MGM loses film rights to Tomb Raider, starting fierce bidding war in Hollywood

Alicia Vikander will no longer play Lara Croft in any big-screen adaptation.

The Independent UK

Hollywood is in a ‘feeding frenzy’ over Lara Croft, Alicia Vikander no longer attached

MGM missed the window to greenlight a ‘Tomb Raider’ sequel

Irish Mirror

Alicia Vikander's pain after suffering miscarriage before welcoming first child with Michael Fassbender

'We have a child now, but it took us time'

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Alicia Vikander opens about her miscarriage and how it gave her past work a ‘new meaning’

The actor and her husband, Michael Fassbender, have a baby son

The Independent UK

Author Deborah Moggach: ‘I’d write Best Exotic Marigold Hotel again, whatever the world thought’

The bestselling author talks to Charlotte Cripps about her selected short story collection, cultural appropriation, her mother’s conviction for attempted murder, and Harvey Weinstein

The Independent UK

Google engineer making ‘sentient AI’ claim sparks joke among film fans

Google engineer controversially claimed AI bot wishes ‘to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property’

France 24

Film show: French classic 'The Mother and The Whore' returns to screens

It caused a scandal at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and changed our critic Lisa Nesselson's life. Jean Eustache's masterpiece has now been restored and re-released for a new generation; we hear about the Parisian wanderings and wonderings at the heart of "The Mother and the Whore". Meanwhile, Olivier Assayas…

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Irma Vep’: HBO’s byzantine showbiz satire full of wonderful chaos

Alicia Vikander stars in the limited series as a movie star surrounded by colorful characters on a French film project.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Alicia Vikander Tackles Fame and Fears in ‘Irma Vep’ TV Series Remake

Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander said her latest leading role allowed her to draw from her own experiences as an actor. The Swedish actress plays the title role in "Irma Vep" a HBO mini-series remake of Olivier Assayas's 1996 cult film of the same name. The eight-episode show centers on American movie…

The Guardian - AU

Ex Machina: when you see this sci-fi thriller, you’ll never stop thinking about it

Ahead of Alex Garland’s new film, Men, revisit his directorial debut. It asks the biggest question of all: what does it mean to be alive?

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