Aimee Lou Wood
From Sex Education to The White Lotus, the Manchester actress is proving there’s more to her characters than meets the eye
Daniel Blumberg
The Brutalist’s 34-year-old composer created the film’s Oscar-nominated score while crashing on director Brady Corbet’s couch
The Last Picture Show
London’s Prince Charles Cinema, an independent movie theater beloved by Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, is under threat of closure
Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
Michael Jackson’s legacy has been milked by his lawyer for more than a decade—and it continues to be, with a controversial new biopic in the works
Everyone’s Mad About Leo Woodall
Bridget Jones isn’t alone—Gen X to Gen Z audiences are swooning over Renée Zellweger’s hunky British co-star, who’s rumored to be the next James Bond
Inside the Dream Factory
In an interview, Steven Soderbergh talks George Clooney, A.I., the problem with Hollywood studios, and his new ghost movie, Presence
Who Killed James Bond?
The last movie in the series, released three years ago, promised the beloved agent would return—but fans are still waiting
La Duce Vita
A new TV series on the Fascist dictator asks: Why do Italians still defend Benito Mussolini?
Quintessa Swindell
The 27-year-old actor stars in Ridley Scott’s new thriller, Prime Target, while simultaneously making their directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival
Remembering Twin Peaks
The cast of David Lynch’s rich and strange television masterpiece recall the late director’s sheer unusualness
Barbie Ferreira
From her Broadway debut to starring alongside Charli XCX in a horror film, the 28-year-old actress is soaking up life post-Euphoria
The Secret Life of James Dean
Never-before-seen correspondence sheds fresh light on the 1950s Hollywood heartthrob’s long-speculated-about sexuality
When Film Set the Fashion
Theadora Van Runkle—the costume designer behind Bonnie and Clyde, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair—defined Hollywood cool
Car Trouble
Written by Ian Fleming with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remains a strange yet scrumptious children’s classic—but it barely made it to the screen
Reel Treasure
Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, and Omar Sharif battle it out in the forgotten film version of an Emeric Pressburger novel
A “Modern-Day Casablanca”
How Miami Vice brought Hollywood-size ambition to the small screen—and sold a lot of Ray-Bans
The Lie Before Christmas
The Holiday, starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, and Kate Winslet, has become the quintessential yuletide film—but it’s built on a web of lies and deceit!
The Dame with the Game
She stole Christopher Nolan, wooed Tom Cruise, and had Ice Cube praising the size of her cojones. How Donna Langley became the most powerful woman in Hollywood
Gracie Lawrence
The 27-year-old Sex Lives of College Girls actress has a second life as a musician, which includes opening for the Rolling Stones
The Rare Eccentricity of Isabella Rossellini
Daughter of Ingrid Bergman, face of Lancôme, and now a farmer, the Italian actress reflects on the unexpected joys of aging and being nepo-baby royalty
King of the Costume Drama
Amid constant fights, infidelity, and financial woes, James Ivory and his partner, Ismail Merchant, created the most elegant films of the era
Payal Kapadia
The first female Indian director to win Cannes’s Grand Prix discusses her childhood in Mumbai and her film All We Imagine as Light
Malcolm Washington
The Spike Lee protégé and son of Denzel Washington directs an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson
The Exploding Archival Inevitable
Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look
