2025: A Year in Film

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Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, newcomer Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall – this screwball odyssey affirms director Paul Thomas Anderson as America’s millennial auteur. Continue reading

2025: A Year in Music

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With old favourites promising new music for next year, 2025 became a waiting game. Continue reading

Angels of Pop: Marilyn and Rosalyn Drexler

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Rosalyn Drexler, a pioneer of the Pop Art movement – and one of the first women to paint Marilyn Monroe – has died aged 98. Continue reading

Joan Mellen: Marilyn’s First Female Filmographer

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Joan Mellen – the academic whose many books included the first female-authored (and feminist) critical biography of Marilyn Monroe, with a primary focus on her film career – has died aged 83. Continue reading

Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes

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Kathleen Hughes, star of It Came From Outer Space, has died aged 96. As well as playing the ‘bad girl’ in cult movies and appearing on numerous TV shows, she was married to River of No Return producer Stanley Rubin for sixty years, and befriended many stars from Hollywood’s golden age, including Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading