Marilyn Monroe
Fantastic Beasts to Love Actually: best films to watch over Christmas
Adam Driver stars in an action-packed adaptation of Don DeLillo’s great American novel, while Frank Capra’s smart twist on A Christmas Carol offers a lesson in the season’s true spirit
Simon Wardell
24, Dec, 2022 @7:00 AM
If Blonde is a feminist film, why is Marilyn Monroe still being exploited? | Martha Gill
The movie, and TV shows like it, merely add women’s mental and physical suffering to the misogynist mix
Martha Gill
02, Oct, 2022 @5:30 AM
Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth
Lauren Mechling
28, Sep, 2022 @7:01 AM
Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters
Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
25, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM
Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film
Glossy horror perpetuates the tradition of portraying the brilliant actor as an infantile, sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity
Peter Bradshaw
21, Sep, 2022 @12:00 PM
Blonde review – Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating
Venice film festival: Andrew Dominik’s controversial drama finds space for talking foetuses, presidential sex and a starry throuple – but denies its subject sufficient agency
Leslie Felperin
08, Sep, 2022 @5:00 PM
‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set
Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
08, Sep, 2022 @3:20 PM
Streaming: the best Marilyn Monroe films
Ahead of Netflix’s biopic of the Hollywood star, what better time to catch up on her deft, joyous screen performances, from Some Like It Hot to The Misfits
Guy Lodge
13, Aug, 2022 @7:00 AM
Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films
Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories
Lizzy Dening
12, Aug, 2022 @10:00 AM
Marilyn Monroe’s estate defends Ana de Armas over biopic accent criticism
Cuban-Spanish actor’s accent in movie Blonde disparaged but ABC says she ‘captures Marilyn’s glamour, humanity and vulnerability’
Lauren Aratani
03, Aug, 2022 @3:44 PM
What links Marilyn Monroe to Nick Cave and Vincent Gallo?
With Blonde coming to Netflix soon, follow the ultimate bombshell down the rabbit hole to find unlikely links to the singer and the actor
Larry Ryan
30, Jul, 2022 @12:00 PM
The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth
Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction
Anthony Summers
29, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM
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