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Taken director Pierre Morel gets it really, really wrong with this dumb, crude and not remotely entertaining action-comedy. The idea isn’t too bad: it’s about a former US special forces soldier who gets caught up in a South American coup after being hired as bodyguard to a journalist. You can picture Armando Iannucci running with the satirical possibilities, or a more serious-minded film-maker wading knee-deep into moral murk, John le Carré style. Instead, Morel, working with a script by Jacob Lentz, squanders the basic…

"House of the Dragon" star Fabian Frankel and actor Alison Oliver have joined the cast of "Mare of Easttown" creator Brad Ingelsby`s next series with HBO. Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo is headlining the untitled project, which will also feature Tom Pelphrey, Emilia Jones, Thuso Mbedu, Raúl Castillo, Jamie McShane and Sam Keeley. Set in the working class suburbs outside of Philadelphia, the show will follow an FBI agent named Tom (Ruffalo) who heads a task force to put an end to a string of drug-house robberies led…

“At the risk of sounding arrogant, I would say one of my greatest and ongoing challenges stems from being ahead of my time,” Dr. Todd explains. “My vision for medicine is, on occasion, years ahead of clinical practice. As such, I need to dig deep to find the patience and perseverance to see things through.”While Dr. Todd is always looking ahead at what’s coming next for diagnostic medicine, she’s also looking at the next generation of scientists and the changes that need to happen in the industry (and the world itself) in…

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, 62, is the author of three graphic memoirs, including Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, but she’s most widely known for cinema’s Bechdel test. To pass, a film has to feature at least two women – preferably named characters – talking to each other about something other than a man. The test originated in Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF), her landmark comic strip that launched in 1983 and ran for 25 years. DTWOF followed the politics and news of the times, providing a weekly lifeline for queer readers…

Over the course of seven albums between 2000 and 2017, Goldfrapp – Alison plus Will Gregory – were never afraid to cross-pollinate genres, whether creating the brilliant glam-dancefloor hybrid of Supernature or the hypnotic rustic electronica of Seventh Tree. Given that, it’s a slight surprise that The Love Invention, her solo debut, is so uncomplicated. It comprises 11 slices of (admittedly superior) disco and house, with little in the way of unexpected deviation.Opener NeverStop sets the tone, a soft, slightly…

It is fair to say Alison Goldfrapp has a complicated relationship with fame. In 2000, around the time of Felt Mountain, her and musical partner Will Gregory’s bewitching debut album as Goldfrapp, she returned home from a full day of interviews “crying and thinking: ‘What the fuck.’ No one had ever told us what an interview might entail,” she recalls now.Later, as the duo’s success ramped up with 2005’s Grammy-nominated, million-selling opus Supernature – an album whose sultry, glam-adjacent electropop would influence…

The 1968 American series Julia, about a single mother raising her son, was one of the first TV series with a black woman in the lead. The mum’s babysitter was played by Alison Mills. One day, aged 17, she asked the producer if she could stop wearing the hideous wig that covered her hair. The producer replied that her real hair looked like rats had been sucking on it.Mills had been a working actor since she was 12, but was now fast approaching the realisation that she no longer believed in Hollywood. “My beauty,” she wrote…

Alison Bechdel talks about a sequel to Dykes to Watch Out For, and trying to get an animated version of the strip made...Cartoonist Alison Bechdel is probably best known for what has been dubbed the Bechdel Test, a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction that asks simply whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Alison Bechdel used it in her 1985 comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For though credited the idea to her friend Liz Wallace, hence…

You and Myra Frances shared UK TV’s first lesbian kiss in a 1974 BBC drama, Girl. What are your memories of this taboo-breaking event? VerulamiumParkRangerWell, I remember being very nervous about the whole thing. Then I got over it. Then I was worried about how my parents, who lived in a quiet suburban area of Liverpool, would cope. I thought: “My poor mum! The neighbours will be whispering: ‘Did you see your daughter on television?’” By the time we came to record, this great director didn’t make a fuss and said: “So…