How Miss Piggy went from minor Muppet to TV’s top hog
Miss Piggy began as a bit player, but a sassy attitude and a karate chop carried her to the pinnacle of pop culture
Jennifer Lawrence
Hi-yah! Miss Piggy was one of my most hostile interviewees. Now she’s in line for the Barbie treatment
Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are joining forces on a porcine production. Expect a postmodern jamboree peopled by the industry’s slickest and shiniest
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look
The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics feared
Four new films to see this week: Anemone, Abode, Die My Love and Train Dreams
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 7th
Die My Love review: Jennifer Lawrence’s new film could be the worst date movie ever made
Uncompromising, hypnotic, brave and often indelible looking, even when the theatricality and fractured structure erode any emotional weight
Belfast Film Festival: A child of the peace process turns 25
Founded in west Belfast by Michele Devlin and Laurence McKeown, the festival now attracts 25,000 visitors each year
Cannes 2025: An emotional screening of My Mom Jayne, and Kristen Stewart’s ‘big Cannes energy’
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My Love
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Oscars 2024 red carpet: Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie in Versace as classy black gowns win the night
Leading ladies such as Carey Mulligan and Jamie Lee Curtis favoured black and sculptural dresses that harked back to old-time Hollywood glamour
No Hard Feelings review: Jennifer Lawrence may need to have a word with her agent
What exactly is this supposed to be? The crummiest beta AI could produce a funnier movie than this one
Summer movies 2023: Indiana Jones, Mission: Impossible, Barbie, Oppenheimer and more
The films to watch out for this season – including two that make up the most anticipated movie weekend in years
Jennifer Lawrence: ‘God, I had such a feminist meltdown about changing my name when I got married’
At first the star wanted to keep her identity. But, after years of too much fame, her new surname helped the Oscar winner keep her new family life private
Critics of Don’t Look Up should look at it through a different lens
For those in the climate science sphere, it’s more than a movie – it’s a redemptive event
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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