Hilary Swank

My boyfriend of seven years always wanted kids. Now we’re 35, I’m ready – and he’s changed his mind
He shocked me by saying he doesn’t want to bring anyone into a world that is getting worse. I love him, but my chance to be a mother is slipping away
Anita Chaudhuri
04, May, 2023 @11:00 AM

Hear me out: why PS I Love You isn't a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defence of the commercially successful yet critically lambasted romance
Ralph Jones
08, Mar, 2021 @7:16 AM

US understands my creative ambition, says British star of Away
Ray Panthaki doesn’t want to be pigeonholed and his aim to write and produce is not just welcome in America, but actively encouraged
Vanessa Thorpe
13, Sep, 2020 @5:36 AM

The week in TV: Away; Planet Earth: A Celebration; Strike and more - review
Hilary Swank can’t save Netflix’s clunking mission to Mars
Euan Ferguson
06, Sep, 2020 @8:30 AM

Away review – Hilary Swank space drama fails to launch
The Oscar winner falters on a pioneering mission to Mars, in a glossy, saccharine Netflix series that’s more mundane than out of this world
Rebecca Nicholson
04, Sep, 2020 @12:00 PM

Houston, we have a parent: what draws sci-fi to motherhood?
Netflix’s Away sees Hilary Swank play a mum separated from her daughter by millions of kilometres, joining a long list of science-fiction characters trapped in a maternal nightmare
Alex Hess
04, Sep, 2020 @9:13 AM

The Hunt review – gory Trump-baiting satire is more hype than horror
The delayed liberal elites vs rural ‘deplorables’ thriller isn’t quite the political hot potato it’s being sold as, offering boilerplate B-movie schlock instead
Adrian Horton
11, Mar, 2020 @1:00 PM

Boys Don't Cry at 20: in praise of the divisive transgender drama
In 1999, Hillary Swank won plaudits for playing Brandon Teena, a murdered trans man, but in the years since, a backlash has been brewing
Guy Lodge
22, Oct, 2019 @6:00 AM

The Hunt: director breaks silence over film where elites kill 'deplorables'
Craig Zobel, whose controversial satirical thriller was dropped after a backlash, has claimed that people have misinterpreted his intention
Benjamin Lee
19, Aug, 2019 @3:04 PM

I Am Mother review – all-female Netflix thriller is a solid sci-fi watch
Newcomer Clara Rugaard impresses as a girl raised by a robot who finds her life thrown into question when an invader, played by Hilary Swank, arrives
Benjamin Lee
07, Jun, 2019 @3:22 PM

What They Had review – polite portrait of a family coping with Alzheimer's
Blythe Danner plays a woman with dementia whose husband and children must decide whether it’s time for her to move into a care home
Cath Clarke
28, Feb, 2019 @11:00 AM

Hilary Swank on grit, love, trans rights – and her three-year screen break
As she returns to acting, the double Oscar-winner talks about her love of ‘people who persevere’, the legacy of her role in Boys Don’t Cry, and why she grew up feeling like an outsider
Amy Nicholson
30, Aug, 2018 @5:00 AM
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