Alison Brie

Freelance review – John Cena and Alison Brie battle stereotypes in crude action-comedy

Cena and Brie display zero chemistry a dumb adventure yarn set in a fictional South American state. It feels like it should be a satire of the genre, but isn’t

Cath Clarke

25, Dec, 2023 @9:00 AM

Somebody I Used to Know review – Alison Brie stars in derivative romcom

Co-writer Brie’s comic talent is wasted in this rehashed tale of a high-flyer falling for her soon-to-be married ex

Wendy Ide

12, Feb, 2023 @12:30 PM

Somebody I Used to Know review – Dave Franco-directed dramedy is a sickly stodgefest

Alison Brie plays a TV producer returning to her home town amid a midlife crisis in this oddly pitched and overly serious relationship drama

Peter Bradshaw

09, Feb, 2023 @5:00 PM

Roar review – female star power … and sex with a duck

This series of one-off dramas from the makers of GLOW has big names – Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo – and plots centred around even bigger concepts. But can it pull them off?

Rebecca Nicholson

15, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM

The Rental review – predictable cabin-in-the-woods scares

Dan Stevens and Alison Brie star in this horror-mystery, which has a nicely tense setup but degenerates into cliche

Peter Bradshaw

20, Jan, 2021 @2:00 PM

Alison Brie: ‘The effects of trauma spider-webbed through the whole family’

Even as a young girl, Alison Brie knew how to entertain a crowd. Now, the star of Mad Men and Glow is tackling the heartbreak of her grandmother’s struggles with mental illness

Aaron Hicklin

08, Mar, 2020 @8:00 AM

Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst

In the third season of Netflix’s consistently entertaining comedy series about female wrestlers, characters are allowed to be messy in and out of the ring

Arielle Bernstein

08, Aug, 2019 @7:00 AM

Feminist warriors: why wrestling for women is taking hold

A famously sexist, ultra-masculine discipline is attracting participants nationwide

Nosheen Iqbal

04, Aug, 2019 @7:00 AM

Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories

Big stars and a bunch of freshman shows will be battling it out for top honors this weekend but who will come out on top?

Rebecca Nicholson

03, Jan, 2019 @10:00 AM

SAG nominees 2019: A Star is Born, Mrs Maisel and Ozark lead the race

The remake leads the big screen nominations with four nods while the TV categories are headed by two streaming network hits

Benjamin Lee

12, Dec, 2018 @3:53 PM

Glow: season two review – Netflix's shimmering comedy returns to piledrive more stereotypes

The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are back bodyslamming and battling the patriarchy, and in this joyful second outing they could be addressing contemporary issues

Julia Raeside

29, Jun, 2018 @8:15 AM

Small screen survivors: how US TV is handling the #MeToo movement

GLOW, The Good Fight and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt are bringing narratives of women dealing with sexual abuse to the front. Minor spoilers ahead