Jodie Foster

‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show

Nic Pizzolatto’s reposted negative comments, publicly distanced himself and created a dedicated space for criticism on his Instagram – despite viewing figures getting better and better …

Paul MacInnes

23, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM

The week in TV: True Detective: Night Country; Big Boys; The Artful Dodger; Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We? – review

Jodie Foster leads a darkly atmospheric reboot; Jack Rooke’s university comedy continues to charm. Plus, a raucous return for Dickens’s pickpocket; and are we all doomed?

Hannah Jane Parkinson

21, Jan, 2024 @9:30 AM

Jodie Foster as Princess Leia? Here’s what Star Wars would have looked like

The actor has revealed she nearly beat Carrie Fisher to the role, which would have made for a very different film and a very different career

Ben Child

19, Jan, 2024 @4:17 PM

True Detective: Night Country review – a blazing Jodie Foster makes this show better than ever before

At last, this show drops the bloated, male-dominated stories of earlier series for an icy murder case in Alaska – with blistering turns from Foster and Kali Reis

Lucy Mangan

15, Jan, 2024 @10:20 PM

TV tonight: Jodie Foster’s no-nonsense investigator joins the True Detective canon

The latest in the anthology series sees eight men disappear at an Alaskan research station, leaving behind only a severed tongue. Plus: more sinister death in Silent Witness. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall and Ellen E Jones

15, Jan, 2024 @6:20 AM

Jodie Foster says generation Z can be ‘really annoying’ to work with

In a Guardian interview, the actor also shares her admiration for Bella Ramsey and says she has challenged her son’s behaviour towards women

Kevin Rawlinson and Emma Brockes

06, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM

‘There are different ways of being a woman’: Jodie Foster on beauty, bravery, and raising feminist sons

For a long time, the actor was the most visible lesbian in Hollywood (not that she really wanted to talk about it). Now the True Detective star feels liberated – and is helping the younger generation follow suit

Emma Brockes

06, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM

Diana Nyad’s epic swim from Cuba to Florida isn’t even the most astounding part of the story | Emma Brockes

Annette Bening plays the swimmer in a new Netflix biopic; but as her coach, Jodie Foster also achieves something remarkable, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes

09, Nov, 2023 @10:13 AM

Nyad review – Annette Bening pulls out all the stops in engaging swimming drama

Bening gives it her all as Diana Nyad, who set out aged 60 to swim from Cuba to Florida, but the film skims over Nyad’s backstory

Peter Bradshaw

24, Oct, 2023 @1:00 PM

Nyad review – Annette Bening and Jodie Foster delight in marathon swimming biopic

Bening is a sixtysomething on a mission to swim from Cuba to Florida, Foster her stoical coach, in this real-life drama of friendship and endurance

Wendy Ide

22, Oct, 2023 @10:00 AM

Making a movie about 64-year-old Diana Nyad’s 110-mile swim: ‘She wasn’t bothered about sharks. The box jellyfish we didn’t know about’

A new drama charts the endurance athlete’s attempts to swim from Havana to Florida, accompanied by former girlfriend Bonnie Stoll and assorted marine predators. It’s a story of friendship, survival – and sharp elbows

Ryan Gilbey

19, Oct, 2023 @4:00 PM

Toronto film festival 2023 roundup – solidarity, swearing, swimming and one standout film

While a clutch of directorial debuts by actors mostly misfired, a return to form for Alexander Payne and award-worthy performances by Jamie Foxx and Jodie Comer offered plenty to get excited about