‘I stopped being a person I liked’: Lena Dunham on time out, rehab and marriage
After five years out of the limelight, actor and director Lena Dunham is back. She talks about her hit series Girls – that made her both the voice of a generation and a lightning rod for criticism –...
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Bella Ramsey, ex-Game of Thrones, is all mischief in Dunham’s inspired adaptation of Karen Cushman’s YA classicLena Dunham, who turned wry solipsism into a career with the HBO series Girls and the...
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PM’s awkward exchange with King leaves me wondering how it would have played out without the forelock-tugging protocolThe spectacle of Brad Pitt imploding is one many of us have been anticipating with...
View ArticleWhat connects The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and poet Simon Armitage?
By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureateSometimes you suddenly start seeing an...
View ArticleFilm: Mark Kermode’s 10 best of 2022
From Hindi crime drama to medieval teen empowerment, Graceland to Bradford to Iran, the year was rich in unforgettable performancesRead the Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full1. AftersunReleased...
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