The Rules of the Dame
Helen Mirren may have turned 80, but she’s still acting—and aging—gracefully. Just don’t call her feisty
Star Turn
After decades of character roles, Paul Guilfoyle, a CSI alumnus, plays the lead in a bittersweet film about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist
The Man Behind the Alien Mask
Bolaji Badejo was a six-foot-10-inch Nigerian graphic-design student in London until a chance pub encounter made him Ridley Scott’s most elegant monster
Fifty Shades of Heathcliff
Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights—where Victorian British yearning meets Down Under B.D.S.M.—has the literary set clutching their pearls
The Sway of Peter Sellers
Woody Allen, Christopher Guest, and Geoffrey Rush recall the influence of the great comic actor, who was born 100 years ago
Corey Mylchreest
With starring roles in the romantic comedy My Oxford Year and the Julie Delpy–led political thriller, Hostage, the 27-year-old actor is spearheading the revival of Cool Britannia
Wet Hot American Summer
The backyard swimming pool moves the spirit unlike any other status symbol. And this summer, it’s more fetishized than ever
The Price of Being a Kennedy
The show-runner and producer of a new documentary series ask, Why is the world still obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy?
Galt Gets Greenlit
A group of conservative tech investors is bringing Atlas Shrugged author Ayn Rand—whose devotees include Donald Trump and Peter Thiel—back to the big screen
Christopher Briney
The actor returns to his role in Amazon Prime Video’s hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty, while making his stage debut alongside Ben Stiller’s daughter
The Breakfast Club Meets Shoah
Delegation, a recently released Israeli film about a group of teenagers on a class trip to the Nazi death camps, resists the “trauma roller coaster”
Stay Cool, Britannia!
Oasis’s reunion and a slew of U.K. TV hits—including Lena Dunham’s new London-set rom-com—are bringing back Brit culture like it’s the 1990s
Cliff-Hangers for the Commute
One-minute micro-dramas—designed to be watched on your smartphone—are now a billion-dollar industry
Too Much Is Just Right
Lena Dunham’s new TV show is a sharp, funny, expat rom-com that blurs the line between her life and art—as always
Superman’s Homecoming
Will a divided America embrace the return of a kind superhero long known for championing peace and standing with immigrants?
Cinephilia, Italian-Style
How a film festival showing nothing but old movies became an international hit
Megan Stalter
From Hacks to Lena Dunham’s new TV show, the Ohio-born actress isn’t afraid to be sensitive, theatrical, and “way too loud”
The Making of A View to a Kill
Forty years ago, a less than sprightly Roger Moore made his final appearance as 007, alongside Christopher Walken and Grace Jones
Imogen Waterhouse
The 31-year-old British actress and sister of Suki Waterhouse revives her American accent for the second season of The Buccaneers
Atsuko Okatsuka
In her new special, Father, the Japanese-Taiwanese comedian finds the humor in her unorthodox upbringing
Less Was More
A new documentary explores the complicated legacy of Jule Campbell, the woman behind the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
The Seven-Year Hitch
Director Billy Wilder wanted sex in Marilyn Monroe’s comedy about infidelity—but Hollywood’s prohibitive censorship rules wouldn’t allow it
The Great James Bond Renaissance
While the next 007 film languishes in Amazon purgatory, a new wave of book spin-offs are re-inventing the British spy for the next generation
A Photo Finish
Forty-five years after The Shining’s release, a reporter and an academic doggedly tracked down the original version of the eerie photograph that Kubrick chose to close the film with
