Elizabeth

“I think it’s cyclical,” offers Elizabeth Banks. “Everything has its moment, goes away, and comes back.” The wildly prolific actress, who’s appeared in everything from Wet Hot American Summer and the original Spider-Man films to The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Hunger Games franchise, is talking about the YA craze she found herself smack in the middle of about a decade ago, when horny tween vampires and a bow-wielding female revolutionary dominated the zeitgeist. Toy fads don’t seem so cyclical. Their appeal is…

Disgraced Theranos co-founder Elizabeth Holmes’ prison sentence has been reduced by two years, according to the Bureau of Prisons records. Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors by claiming her blood-testing company provided quick and reliable results but she was found to have lied about the reliability of those tests.Tour the Museum of Failure’s Best Tech TrashHolmes surrendered to the Bureau of Prisons in California on May 30 to serve out her sentence at a minimum-security…

For many actors, the thought of playing Elizabeth Taylor at the National Theatre would be unnerving enough. But for Tuppence Middleton, who hadn’t done much stage work, it must have felt even more daunting. Not least because the job came up just three months after the birth of her child. But Middleton likes a challenge, and you don’t turn down the chance to be directed by Sam Mendes.“I wasn’t really thinking about work at that point,” she says, “but I knew my daughter would be eight months by the time we started, so I…

It’s peak 70s Liz Taylor in this arrestingly bizarre movie directed by Italian film-maker Giuseppe Patroni Griffi in 1974, which he co-adapted from the 1970 novella by Muriel Spark and was released under the title Identikit in the US. With her big sunglasses and permanently dishevelled jet-black hair, Taylor gives an intense and more-than-slightly alarming performance in a preposterous, slightly dated yet very watchable psycho-existential mystery, a cousin to the era’s paranoid thrillers. It was shot by Vittorio Storaro,…

Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty ImagesFormer Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was estimated to have a personal wealth of $4.5 billion in the heyday of her failed fraud of a blood testing company, can’t afford to pay the victims she bilked $250 per month in restitution, her attorneys said this week.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechThe Justice Department said in a court filing it wanted Holmes to pay the monthly $250, or at least 10% of her income, to victims of Theranosafter she gets out of prison.…

As I prepared to write on the 60th anniversary of Cleopatra, I asked a few friends and relatives if they had ever seen it. Some had, but more hadn’t: life, even or perhaps especially for the well-versed cinephile, is short, and four-hour-plus Hollywood follies with steadily mouldering reputations quite reasonably aren’t high on everyone’s catch-up list. But more than one person told me that they weren’t actually sure: “I definitely feel like I have,” said one film writer, citing the reams of well-publicised lore on its…

via Marvel Studios In an incident that has unfortunate echoes of the very recent past, another Marvel Cinematic Universe star has been hit with accusations of assault, casting another dark cloud over another the superhero franchise’s fresh offerings as a result. Elsewhere and in less unsavory news, Elizabeth Olsen sounds as if she’s making peace with the fact she won’t be as heavily involved in the franchise as she was during the formative years of Phase Four, even if that’s something her legion of supporters…

via Marvel Studios Thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s love of a fake-out death, even seeing a body isn’t enough to convince fans that somebody is really dead, but Elizabeth Olsen‘s Scarlet Witch didn’t even get that treatment in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Of course, there’s virtually no chance whatsoever we won’t be seeing Wanda Maximoff again, with everything from Agatha: Coven of Chaos to Vision Quest via Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars being wide open as potential…

Images via Marvel Studios After a gap of four full years, if you can believe it, Samuel L. Jackson is finally returning to the Marvel universe as Nick Fury in the incoming Disney Plus series Secret Invasion, and he’s wasting no time in admitting the one thing that he wishes would change about his beloved character. Although Jackson’s tongue-in-cheek comments are nothing compared to the shade his Avengers co-star Elizabeth Olsen has thrown on a major part of her own MCU journey. Let’s begin: Samuel L. Jackson…

via Marvel Studios Kevin Feige might have snipers on the roof ready to paint the red dot on anyone about to give up major Marvel Cinematic Universe spoilers, but there’s not much he can do about some of the franchise’s biggest stars voicing their disapproval on the superhero saga’s recent slate of projects. Chris Hemsworth surprised a lot of people recently when he criticized both Thor: Love and Thunder and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania for their respective shortcomings, even if his sentiments are entirely…