“I have a new hobby,” Sandra Hüller said recently. “I try to sneak in a karaoke scene in every film.” The German actor doesn’t always succeed. I am pretty sure she didn’t get a song into Jonathan Glazer’s forbidding Zone of Interest. But, in Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, a critical smash from 2016, she belted … Read more
I find it hard to walk up to a gang of women I don’t know really well in the schoolyard or at a match, so I normally end up standing near a solitary dad and have a few short exchanges. If I hadn’t started chatting to one of those dads, we wouldn’t have been able … Read more
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Half His Age Author: Jennette McCurdy ISBN-13: 978-0008617691 Publisher: Fourth Estate Guideline Price: £ 16.99 Former tween idol Jennette McCurdy knows how to get laughs – and how to use them. A child actor turned memoirist, she’s built a career grinding pain into punchlines. Her first nonfiction book I’m Glad My Mom Died sold more … Read more
“Nobody knows anything,” the great screenwriter William Goldman said of Hollywood. By which he meant that you can team the greatest stars with the greatest director and writer and still cook up a turkey. Conversely, a film can also become the most unexpected success. K-Pop Demon Hunters wasn’t on most people’s radars before it landed … Read more
Coping with mental health issues from early teenage years fuelled Marysia Pachowicz’s long-held dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Until, halfway through doing a master’s, the Trinity College Dublin graduate realised it was the wrong career choice. “As a clinical psychologist, you kind of have two options. You work in public services or you work … Read more
As a journalist, there are a couple of questions I get asked often. The first is, “Did you do your own make-up today?” (In a kind, concerned way so I know it’s more a welfare check than a compliment.) The second is, “Why is the news so negative, can’t you just give us good news?” … Read more
We need your help now Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open. You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough. If you’ve seen value in our reporting, … Read more