Melissa Denes

Why can’t film’s leading women age like Sean Penn? The star of One Battle After Another is capitalising on his lived-in look, but Hollywood actresses are held to a different standard

I wrote about Sean Penn’s face, One Battle After Another and why the only woman over 46 nominated for an Oscar this year plays a witch

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After the Hunt’s Nora Garrett: from LA assistant to Hollywood’s most wanted The screenwriter behind the explosive new film, starring Julia Roberts, talks MeToo, cancel culture and power struggles

Spoke to Nora Garrett, the very smart screenwriter of After the Hunt, about Hollywood, MeToo, Johnny Depp, and her past lives assisting Rosamund Pike and training AI for Meta

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So good I had to read it twice: @jtcbooks.bsky.social gets her ‘farm to table face’ on for Woody Allen’s debut novel

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How do you follow Prima Facie? With a play about boys, porn and parents Suzie Miller’s hit drama starring Jodie Comer changed the conversation around sexual crimes. Now Inter Alia, starring Rosamund Pike, tackles the root of the problem

Prima Facie was extraordinary and I hear good things about Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia too. We spoke about raising boys, porn, emotional labour and rattling cages again Can’t wait to see Rosamund Pike bring this to life

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Russo Brothers: Marvel is killing cinemas? No, they’ve kept them open The Oscar-winning sibling directors, who made billions with their two Avengers blockbusters, are back to save the universe

The Russo Brothers won an Oscar, directed Arrested Development and two of the biggest Marvel movies. Can they reboot the franchise again?

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Steven Bartlett: ‘We need another model of what a man is’ His Diary of a CEO podcast regularly tops the UK charts — now the Dragons’ Den star has the US, Andrew Tate and modern masculinity in his sights

Ros Urwin meets @StevenBartlett and his dog in his shiny podcast HQ to talk US domination and modern masculinity

Steven Bartlett: ‘We need another model of what a man is’

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Michael Morpurgo: ‘This government doesn’t understand the countryside’ As the children’s author launches Spring, his first book for adults in decades, he takes aim at urban politicians, old age — and recalls an encounter with Putin

The time Michael Morpurgo went to the Kremlin for a librarians’ party thrown by Putin, and other stories in this stellar interview by @JohannaTC

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The 25 best albums of the 21st century (so far) — ranked From the shock of Radiohead’s radical Kid A in 2000 through to Charli XCX’s brilliant Brat, our critics pick the records that have defined the past 25 years

Are these the 25 best albums of the 21st century (ranked) so far?

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Grayson Perry: I like to shock the ‘unshockable’ art world From frocks to pots and a spot on The Masked Singer, the Turner prize-winning artist lets loose on breaking taboos, turning 65 — and his best show yet

Five pieces from today’s @thetimes Culture magazine, all free to air:

Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles talks to @JANUSZCZAK about upsetting the art world, @MaskedSingerUK, his boomer era and new alter ego

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The Times is free to read all weekend but tomorrow’s Culture also nice in print, featuring the 25 best albums of the 21st century, Steven Bartlett, Michael Morpurgo on the farm and more

Original article featuring photos by Melanie Eclare not online but a couple of images (more on IG)

David Lynch v the squirrels — at home with the Blue Velvet director The American auteur, who died this week, took sanctuary in a vast modernist complex off Mulholland Drive where he painted, smoked … and perfected his rodent-proof bird feeder

One of the luckiest, funniest gigs of my life - interviewing David Lynch in his beloved LA garden, featuring squirrel-proof bird-feeders, seagull roadkill and a world premiere of Dead Mouse with Ants

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Solidarity with friends and former colleagues at the Guardian and Observer, whose loss or dilution would put a huge hole in news, comment, cultural coverage and Sundays. The two papers have been fully blended on the site for so long that few readers realise how much will go

These are the 19 best books of 2024, according to our critics 📚

Do you agree with their picks? Let us know 👇

‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies? The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffe...

Terrific long read by my former fellow New Stateswoman @SEMcBain on the science, optimism and parents driving a big increase in the survival rate of babies born at 22 weeks - in ‘the grey zone’

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