Gut reaction: cinema’s new wave of projectile vomiting
From Triangle of Sadness and Babylon to The Lighthouse and Sick of Myself – out later this month – why is there so much puking in high-end movies?
December 2022
Lightening in a bottle: why 2022 was the year we all went blond
Blondness is back. Post pandemic, tweed blond, ice cube blond and rose gold blonds have been everywhere from celebrities and influencers to schoolkids and footballers. Why this colourful saturation?
October 2022
If Blonde is a feminist film, why is Marilyn Monroe still being exploited?
Martha Gill
The movie, and TV shows like it, merely add women’s mental and physical suffering to the misogynist mix
September 2022
Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters
Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film
First look review
Blonde review – Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating
‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set
July 2022
The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth
Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction
June 2022
Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn Monroe biopic released
Netflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor
May 2022
Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?
From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?
