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The High Priestess of Grind House

Stephanie Rothman was a rare female director in 1970s Hollywood. What kept her from following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese?

Back to the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal transformed the thriller genre—and inspired real-life assassins. Now it gets a 21st-century makeover with Eddie Redmayne in the title role

In Defense of Cruising

William Friedkin saw the film, which starred Al Pacino, as a breakthrough for gay representation in Hollywood. Gay activists disagreed

Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

With Catastrophe, Divorce, and now Bad Sisters, Sharon Horgan is the queen of depicting women in frantic disarray

Lashana Lynch

The James Bond and Marvel actress now stars alongside Eddie Redmayne in a remake of The Day of the Jackal

Rivals Laid Bare

The jodhpur-ripping, high-camp romp was as much fun to film as it is to watch

From Russia with Lust

Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, was a hit at Cannes and is now drawing Oscar buzz. How did he make sex work so respectable?

Boffing for Britain

The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism

From Russia, with Lulz

Mark Eydelshteyn landed his first English-speaking role with a very unusual audition tape

Frank Sinatra Gets Whacked

Martin Scorsese’s gritty biopic of Frank Sinatra has been shelved. Was it the singer’s family, or Gen Z’s lack of interest, that killed it off?

Ave Maria!

She got Rudy Giuliani to fiddle with his crotch in the Borat sequel. Now Maria Bakalova steals the show as Ivana Trump in the new movie The Apprentice

A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous

The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski

The Breakfast Clubs

America’s morning television brightens the day but deadens the soul. Not the case in the U.K., where the shows are so bizarre, they can’t help but delight

Ariella Glaser

The 19-year-old actress discusses her first starring role, in White Bird, alongside Helen Mirren

Irene Maiorino

The Italian actress, who stars as Lila in the fourth and final season of My Brilliant Friend, describes her serendipitous connections with Elena Ferrante’s characters

Elaine May Speaks!

A rare interview, over deviled eggs, at Sardi’s

Sweating the Details with Randy Andy

A Very Royal Scandal dramatizes the notorious interview Prince Andrew gave about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. But how much of it is true?

Maddie Ziegler

The Dance Moms star turned actress reflects on her unusual path to Hollywood

A Dame-in-Waiting

Lesley Manville has gone toe-to-toe with Daniel Day-Lewis and been married to Gary Oldman. But with myriad new projects—and a fashion campaign for Loewe—she’s never been more front and center

Tangled Up in The West Wing

On the 25th anniversary of Aaron Sorkin’s beloved political drama, Janel Moloney—who played the idealistic Donna Moss—grapples with the show’s role in her life

Depraved New World

In the 1930s, two German families and a baroness moved to Floreana, a barely populated island in the Galápagos. Ron Howard’s new film, Eden, revisits the dramatic deaths that ensued

Furor over the Führer

Jerry Lewis’s unfinished film, The Day the Clown Cried, was long considered the last word in Holocaust-related bad taste. And then along came Heil Honey I’m Home!, an I Love Lucy–like sitcom about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

Grace Van Patten

The star of Tell Me Lies reveals her hesitance about joining Hollywood and how she handles filming her dark Hulu series

Jack-of-All-Trades

With his starring role in the darkly funny espionage thriller Slow Horses, critically acclaimed theatrical performances, and recent marriage to Saoirse Ronan, Jack Lowden is riding high