Articles by Benjamin Lee

Charli xcx plays version of herself in teaser for mockumentary The Moment

The ‘2024 period piece’ stars the Grammy-winning musician with Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott and Alexander Skarsgård

The World of Tomorrow review – Tom Hanks returns to the stage for time travel charmer

The actor indulges his love of the past in a breezily enjoyable play about a man falling for a woman from the 1930s, played by a standout Kelli O’Hara

2 days ago

Entertainment

The Carpenter’s Son review – Nicolas Cage is predictably miscast in dull biblical horror

A grim, grave-faced look at Jesus realising he is in fact the son of God is a bafflingly acted and messily made bore

Nov 14, 2025

Entertainment

Adele to make acting debut in star-studded Tom Ford movie

The singer will star alongside Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Thandiwe Newton and Nicholas Hoult in an Anne Rice adaptation

Nov 12, 2025

Entertainment

A Merry Little Ex-Mas review – Netflix’s season of cheapo festive fare begins with a shrug

Alicia Silverstone is latest 90s star to lead a film for the streamer but her charm can’t save another bland addition to their pile of festive fare

Nov 12, 2025

Entertainment

‘The age of toys is over’: first Toy Story 5 teaser trailer introduces a new tech foe

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are joined by Past Lives star Greta Lee in Disney’s highly anticipated sequel

Nov 11, 2025

Entertainment

Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company

The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs

Nov 11, 2025

Entertainment

Sally Kirkland, Oscar-nominated actor of film and television, dies at 84

The actor has over 250 screen credits, including Anna, The Way We Were and JFK, and collaborated with Andy Warhol

Nov 11, 2025

Entertainment

John Oliver on the ‘shocking’ use of felony murder charges in the US

The host spoke about a little known charge that sends people to prison for life for murder even if they haven’t actually murdered anybody

Nov 10, 2025

World

Michael: first trailer unveiled for controversial Michael Jackson biopic

Star will be played by the real-life singer’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in a film that will ‘humanise but not sanitise’ him

Nov 6, 2025

World

Director of Kim Kardashian show All’s Fair responds to scathing reviews: ‘Hopefully opinions will change’

Anthony Hemingway, who is both director and executive producer on the legal drama, has defended the show which has been the subject of a critical pile-on

Nov 5, 2025

World

Diane Ladd, Oscar-nominated actor of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, dies aged 89

The death of the three-time Oscar nominee, whose starred in films including Chinatown, was announced by her daughter Laura Dern

Nov 3, 2025

World

Stephen Colbert on cancellation of the Late Show: ‘So surprising and so shocking’

In a new interview, the late-night host opened up about the end of his late-night series calling it ‘the first number one show to ever get cancelled’

Nov 3, 2025

Shelby Oaks review – junky Halloween horror delivers zero scares

There is really nothing to be scared of in this clumsy hodgepodge of found footage, mockumentary and conventional narrative

Oct 22, 2025

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle review – serviceable 90s thriller remake

There are some smart updates to the psycho-nanny hit but without the searing presence of Rebecca De Mornay, this one is unlikely to stick around for quite so long

Oct 22, 2025

No Other Land to be self-released on US platforms after ‘unethical’ Mubi deal rejected

Oscar-winning documentary, about displaced Palestinians in West Bank, will not be heading to Mubi due to links with Sequoia Capital, which has ties to Israeli military

Oct 17, 2025

Al Pacino on co-star and ex-girlfriend Diane Keaton: ‘She lived without limits’

The actor has paid tribute to his Godfather co-star and one-time romantic partner, saying she had a ‘once-in-a-lifetime gift’

Oct 16, 2025

Drew Struzan, poster designer for Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, dies aged 78

Artist behind posters for Harry Potter, The Thing and Back to the Future had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease

Oct 14, 2025

Vicious review – Dakota Fanning’s evil box horror is an open-and-shut dud

The Strangers writer-director Brian Bertino struggles to get scares out of this poorly paced and increasingly incoherent disappointment

Oct 9, 2025

Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip-off

The beats of the 1998 rom-com, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycat

Oct 8, 2025