Billie Piper
‘Exactly what cinema should be’: readers on their films of 2021 so far
From the joyous escapism of In the Heights and Cruella to the powerful storytelling of The Mauritanian, our readers reveal their movie highlights of the last six months
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
23, Jun, 2021 @1:56 PM
The best films of 2021 so far
Chloé Zhao hits the road, Carey Mulligan takes her revenge and Emma Stone refashions Cruella in the pick of this year’s films
Andrew Pulver
15, Jun, 2021 @8:52 AM
Rare Beasts review – Billie Piper’s deliciously dark and deadpan anti-romcom
Tragedy smacks up against slapstick in Piper’s off-kilter comedy of love and self-loathing, the star’s striking directorial debut
Mark Kermode , Observer film critic
23, May, 2021 @7:00 AM
Billie Piper: From vulnerable teen pop star to director of an ‘anti-romcom’
The characters she plays do not match her own life, the actress insists, but it’s hard not to see parallels with her own journey
Andrew Anthony
22, May, 2021 @4:00 PM
Rare Beasts review – masterful Billie Piper rips up the romcom rulebook
In her directorial debut, Piper announces herself as a truly thrilling film-maker with this bleakly brilliant inversion of the cutesy London love story
Peter Bradshaw
20, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
From Black Widow to unseen Beatles footage: what films to see as cinemas reopen
The dazzling Nomadland leads the way with a medieval thriller, a Ben Wheatley chiller and Emma Stone’s Cruella hot on its heels
Peter Bradshaw
16, May, 2021 @3:30 PM
Radical, angry, creative: British women lead a screen revolution
The Golden Globe nominations prove that the industry is in the throes of a sea change for female writers and directors
Vanessa Thorpe
06, Feb, 2021 @10:00 PM
Billie Piper: ‘I know about dysfunctional relationships – what it costs to be a woman’
After 25 years in the limelight, the actor says she is finally finding her voice as an actor, writer and now director. Does life imitate art?
Sophie Heawood
30, Jan, 2021 @8:00 AM
Stress, chess and mounting dread: how 2020 was the year of anxie-TV
As the pandemic struck and a nation retreated to its living rooms, it seemed the perfect time for light and comforting shows to boom. The reality was anything but
Rachel Aroesti
29, Dec, 2020 @1:00 PM
The 50 best TV shows of 2020, No 2: I Hate Suzie
Billie Piper was on searing form as a B-list celeb whose life is unravelling in this unflinchingly honest portrait of womanhood
Hannah Jane Parkinson
21, Dec, 2020 @8:00 AM
The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1
Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best
18, Dec, 2020 @8:09 AM
I Hate Suzie: Billie Piper is spectacular as a spiralling star in this train-wreck comedy
The series follows the trajectory of a former child star whose life is beginning to unravel
Brigid Delaney
11, Oct, 2020 @4:30 PM
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