What went wrong with the exploitative Brittany Murphy docuseries?
A new two-part HBO Max series on the Clueless actor’s shocking death at 32 in 2009 is less monument to her short life than exploitation of her death
September 2017
Lifetime of sin: ranking the US network’s musical biopics
From LiLo’s gravel-voiced Liz Taylor to a Whitney straight out of America’s Next Top Model, we rank Lifetime Movies’ made-for-TV ‘masterpieces’
April 2015
Amber Tamblyn's Dark Sparkler: an unsettling meditation on early fame
The former child star performed her new book of poems with Yo La Tengo in New York, taking a gimlet-eyed aim at the pressures Hollywood places on women
September 2014
Brittany Murphy's father calls TV movie biopic 'hideous'
Ben Child: Angelo Bertolotti says Lifetime's The Brittany Murphy Story, about the late actor, is 'unauthorised and completely untrue'
August 2014
Brittany Murphy movie 'a murder mystery'
Lifetime’s biopic of the actor takes inspiration from later-discredited poisoning claims made by her father
March 2014
Brittany Murphy's final film to be released
Something Wicked, which was completed just before the star's death in 2009, is to have a belated premiere
November 2013
Brittany Murphy's mother: 'Poisoning claims a smear'
Brittany Murphy poisoning claims queried by toxicologist
Brittany Murphy toxicology tests suggest heavy metal poisoning
Film blog
Top 10 teen movies
May 2010
Simon Monjack, husband of Brittany Murphy, dies of heart attack
British scriptwriter, whose actor wife died five months ago, dies aged 39 at home in Los Angeles
February 2010
Prescription drugs don't equal 'safe' drugs
Deborah Orr
Actor Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, coroners rule
David Thomson: The late Jennifer Jones experienced the classic Tinseltown story of discovery and stardom, but also endured depression and death. Brittany Murphy was just the latest to follow in her footsteps
Film blog
That girl from Clueless – Brittany Murphy's sparky performance in the greatest of teen movies
The Guardian's film critic looks back at one of the forgotten actors of the 'noughties'
