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The trauma plot: how did culture get addicted to tragic backstories? | Diana Reid

Again and again, audiences have been spoon-fed the same story: a character can only be explained by a past trauma, tantalisingly revealed in the last episode. Has the trope reached a tipping point?

Diana Reid

11, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM

Oscars 2025: who will win, who should win – and who was snubbed

Can Brady, Brody and The Brutalist beat the competition? And will controversy scupper record nominee Emilia Pérez’s chances? Our critic makes his final predictions – and highlights who should have been nominated

Peter Bradshaw

28, Feb, 2025 @11:59 AM

Oscars 2025: best actor nominees – awards, interviews and what their chances are

What to know about the actors nominated for the Academy Awards’ biggest acting prize, along with the Guardian’s reviews and interviews

Catherine Shoard

21, Feb, 2025 @9:00 AM

‘Stick-it-to-the-man sentiment’: Oscar-nominated films compete to bait Donald Trump

Almost all the shortlisted movies this year can be seen as a critique of the incoming president. Accident or design?

Catherine Shoard

24, Jan, 2025 @7:22 PM

Golden Globes 2025: a lively list guaranteed to get under President-elect Trump’s skin

Sebastian Stan gets a best actor nomination for playing younger Trump in The Apprentice and a there’s a musical about a gender-reassigned Mexican gangster. Trump won’t be happy

Peter Bradshaw

09, Dec, 2024 @5:05 PM

Golden Globes 2025: Emilia Pérez scores 10 nominations as Kate Winslet, Selena Gomez and Sebastian Stan each take two

Jacques Audiard’s crime musical recognised in three musical and three acting categories as nominations announced in first major awards of season

Catherine Shoard

09, Dec, 2024 @2:36 PM

The Apprentice actor Sebastian Stan says Hollywood stars are ‘afraid’ of Trump

None of his peers would appear with him on a chatshow the actor claimed, setting an ominous precedent for the industry’s interactions with Trump after he comes into power

Catherine Shoard

21, Nov, 2024 @1:29 PM

‘Everybody told me not to do it’: can a movie shift a presidential election?

As the US heads to the polls, film-makers and writers of political movies released in election years discuss their intentions and influence

David Smith in Washington and Adrian Horton in New York

05, Nov, 2024 @11:00 AM

Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story

Controversial drama The Apprentice has bombed stateside but it’s attracting bigger audiences in other parts of the world

Adrian Horton

22, Oct, 2024 @1:36 PM

The Apprentice review – Jeremy Strong is the Trump card in measured biopic of the Donald

The Succession star chills as US lawyer Roy Cohn opposite Sebastian Stan as his grasping protege Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s intriguing drama

Wendy Ide

20, Oct, 2024 @7:00 AM

The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years

Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over

Peter Bradshaw

16, Oct, 2024 @9:38 AM

Want to understand Donald Trump? Then watch macho 80s action movies

From Sly Stallone at the White House to Hulk Hogan at the RNC, Donald Trump has made no secret of his affinity for hyper-masculine men. But will the US fall for his action movie-inspired strongman shtick one more time?

Tom Breihan

14, Oct, 2024 @11:00 PM