Lashana Lynch
Bob Marley: One Love review – the reggae superstar deserves a better film than this
British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley and the magnetic Lashana Lynch as Marley’s wife, Rita, are let down by this deferential biopic’s undercooked screenplay
Wendy Ide
17, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM
Bob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up
With Marley’s family on board, this officially-approved life story serves up the hits but skirts some big questions
Peter Bradshaw
08, Feb, 2024 @6:00 PM
‘It was buy eggs or put money on my travel card’: actor Lashana Lynch on Bond, Bob Marley and being broke
She shot to fame as the first female 007 and is now tackling reggae royalty as Marley’s wife, Rita. But the actor hasn’t always had it easy in an industry hostile to people without a safety net
Tshepo Mokoena
27, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical review – immensely enjoyable reworking of the stage hit
Newcomer Alisha Weir and a game Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull excel in Matthew Warchus’s highly stylised screen adaptation
Wendy Ide
27, Nov, 2022 @11:30 AM
The Woman King review – Viola Davis leads the line in stirring warrior tale
Davis is the general of an elite team of female fighters, based on the Agojie of 19th-century west Africa, as colonialists seek to exploit tribal conflict
Peter Bradshaw
04, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
Matilda musical movie starring Emma Thompson to open London film festival
World premiere of the film version of the Roald Dahl-based musical also stars Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough
Catherine Shoard
30, Jun, 2022 @9:26 AM
Bond actor Lashana Lynch nominated for Bafta rising star award
The Briton is up against Kodi Smit-McPhee, Millicent Simmonds, Ariana Debose and Harris Dickinson
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
01, Feb, 2022 @1:41 PM
ear for eye review – Lashana Lynch goes head to head with structural racism
The new 007 conducts an agonisingly tense interrogation in the centrepiece of a three-part cine-prose-poem about racism from debbie tucker green
Peter Bradshaw
14, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
Never mind the explosions – how sexist is No Time to Die?
The new Bond movie is keen to highlight more positive gender credentials, while keeping the Bond-girl glamour. Does it work?
Simran Hans
30, Sep, 2021 @11:22 AM
It’s No Time to Die: but is it time to revoke James Bond’s licence to kill?
In the 1960s, 007 was a glamorous antidote to postwar austerity, but now he’s more laughable than heroic. Can the Bond brand survive, post-Brexit?
Stuart Jeffries
25, Sep, 2021 @9:00 AM
Lashana Lynch, the first female 007: ‘I never had a plan B’
Lashana Lynch, star of the new Bond movie, talks to Tim Lewis about ninja training, doing her own stunts and why now’s the time for an agent who’s a ‘real woman’
Tim Lewis
12, Sep, 2021 @7:00 AM
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