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Glenn Close

July 2024

  • A boy and his mother sit on the couch as the mother comforts him

    Hillbilly Elegy: what can the book and movie tell us about JD Vance?

    The bestselling book and its poorly reviewed adaptation provide clues to who Donald Trump’s new running mate really is and how he sees himself

May 2023

  • Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Tom Berenger, William Hurt, Mary Kay Place, Jeff Goldblum and JoBeth Williams

    Stream team
    The Big Chill at 40: rewatching the defining ensemble film of the 1980s

    Director Lawrence Kasdan had his starry cast live together for weeks to get to know each other – and the result is a poignant film about friendship and loss

April 2023

  • Fatal Attraction, then and now: Glenn Close, who plays Alex Forrest in the 1987 film, and, right, Lizzy Caplan, who reprises the role in the TV series

    Lock up your bunnies: Fatal Attraction is back, and still stuck in the 80s

    Rachel Cooke was looking forward to a TV reboot of the controversial 1987 thriller – only to find that, despite being made by a team of women, its attitudes have barely changed

May 2022

  • Glenn Close and Niv Sultan in Tehran (Apple TV+)

    TV review
    Tehran series two review – Glenn Close adds menace to this breathlessly exciting thriller

    An authoritative, powerful Close brings star power to this unbearably tense spy drama that makes Homeland seem as relaxing as a sleep app

April 2022

  • Patricia MacLachlan

    Patricia MacLachlan obituary

    US writer of brief but intense accounts of family life for children whose best-known work was Sarah, Plain and Tall

March 2022

  • DEEP WATER<br>DEEP WATER - film still - Ana de Armas as Melinda Van Allen in 20th Century Studios' DEEP WATER, exclusively on Hulu. Photo by Claire Folger. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    ‘The hideous truth is that jealousy is an aphrodisiac’: Fatal Attraction director on sex, shrinks and snails

    British film-maker Adrian Lyne hit paydirt with a string of erotic thrillers, but Deep Water is his first movie for 20 years. Can stars (and ex-lovers) Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas outsweat Glenn Close and Michael Douglas?

December 2021

  • Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris in “Swan Song,” premiering globally on Apple TV+ on December 17, 2021.

    Swan Song review – Mahershala Ali is twice the man in melancholy sci-fi mystery

    Ali convincingly plays a man with a terminal illness who has a doppelganger made of himself in this unsettling, elegant film

May 2021

  • From left: Balmain SS21, Glenn Close in 102 Dalmatians, Cruella de Vil in Disney’s 101 Dalmatians, and faux fur in Burberry’s AW21 Womenswear collection.

    Lock up your puppies: how Cruella de Vil became a fashion icon

    Hollywood’s greatest fashion baddie is back with a new film, while her monochrome glamour is everywhere. Can the Dalmatian-obsessed anti-hero remind us how to dress post-lockdown?

April 2021

  • Every one’s a winner … Youn Yuh-jung, Daniel Kaluuya and Frances McDormand.

    And this year’s Oscar for inclusivity goes to … the Academy!

  • Glenn Close dances to EU’s Da Butt at the Oscars.

    Glenn Close’s magnificent Da Butt and superb flirting: key Oscars moments

March 2021

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Ottessa Moshfegh survived lockdown by writing a novel

    Rebecca Nicholson
  • FILES-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-OSCARS<br>(FILES) In this file photo an Oscar statue is unveiled on the eve of the 90th Academy Awards Ceremony “The Oscars” on March 3, 2018 in Hollywood, California. - Streaming films like “Mank” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” will battle with frontrunner “Nomadland” for the March 15, 2021 coveted Oscar nominations, setting up the grand finale to an awards season transformed by the pandemic. With most US movie theaters closed all year due to Covid, the Academy Awards have been delayed to their latest-ever date -- April 25 -- while several big-screen studio blockbusters skipped their 2020 releases entirely, leaving an eclectic field of hopefuls. (Photo by Robyn BECK / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

    The full list of 2021 Oscars nominations

February 2021

  • On the road to glory? … Frances McDormand in Nomadland.

    Golden Globes 2021: who will win and who should win the film awards?

  • Golden Globe statuettes

    Golden Globes 2021: full list of nominations

November 2020

  • This image released by Netflix shows Owen Asztalos, left, and Amy Adams in a scene from “Hillbilly Elegy.” (Lacey Terrell/Netflix via AP)

    How Hillbilly Elegy tries and fails to show the 'real' America

    Ron Howard’s misjudged adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoir is both histrionic and boring – and too shallow to act as social commentary
  • Glenn Close and Amy Adams in Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close and Amy Adams trade Appalachian cliches

    Close and Adams are all platitudes and prosthetics in Ron Howard’s hackneyed adaptation of a rags-to-riches memoir
  • HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Haley Bennett (“Lindsay”), Glenn Close (“Mamaw”),Owen Asztalos (“Young J.D. Vance”). Photo Cr. Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX © 2020

    Hillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close's grouchy gran saves the day

    A troubled teenager ends up at Yale Law School thanks to his eccentric grandmother in this adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoir

October 2020

  • Hillbilly Elegy 3

    Trailer review
    Hair, glasses, Santa puppy T-shirt: get the Glenn Close Hillbilly Elegy look

    She might be best described as Jeremy Kyle Mrs Doubtfire, but I predict Glenn Close’s character will be your next style icon. Here are her looks from the trailer – ranked!

February 2020

  • composite photo of (L-R) Jeniffr HUdson, Gary Oldman and Glen Close

    Oscars 2021: who might be next year's big winners?

    It was a big night for Academy favourites Joaquin, Renee, Laura and Brad and looking ahead, there might be some more familiar faces in the mix yet again

December 2019

  • Tom Hanks speaking on stage at the 11th Annual Governors Awards gala hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 27 October 2019.

    The most anticipated movies of 2020
    The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas

    Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases
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