Javier Bardem: ‘When I won the Oscar, I felt great, but it didn’t make any sense’

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Admin

Famed for portraying bad guys in Skyfall and No Country for Old Men, the Spaniard opens up about his marriage to Penélope Cruz, his formidable mum, and his hopes for his kids

The bad news is that, at the last minute, my interview with Javier Bardem is changed from being a face-to-face encounter to one conducted by the less risky means of video chat (damn you, Omicron!) But the good news is this means I get to snoop around Bardem’s home in Madrid, where he Zooms me from, and which he shares with his wife, the actor Penélope Cruz, and their two children, Leonardo, 10, and Luna, eight. OK, I don’t actually see the whole house, but he does give me a panoramic view of his study while his kids shout and play outside.

“You can see my little bookcase here,” Bardem says, picking up his laptop and giving me the grand tour. “And my map of the world. It’s very chaotic.”

And the winner should be … Peter Bradshaw’s predictions for the 2021 Oscars

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Admin

Will Nomadland clean up this year? Will Anthony Hopkins get best actor? Our film critic gives the low down on the contenders for the Academy Awards

Will win: Nomadland
Should win: Nomadland
Shoulda been a contender: Quo Vadis, Aida?

I wish I knew how to quit You: our writers’ favourite TV hate-watches

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Admin

Which shows are so bad they’re addictive? From You, to Made in Chelsea and the hideously self-unaware The Newsroom

It’s rare for a show with so few redeeming features to become a hit, and yet Netflix’s You has done just that, with tens of millions of viewers following the disturbing exploits of Penn Badgley’s holier-than-thou-drifter, and the beautiful female objects of his obsession. Joe Goldberg is a Nice Guy, so nice in fact that he owns a huge glass cage in which he traps anyone who stands in between him and his sociopathic whims. He worms his way into the life of his first victim, Beck, by stalking her on social media. It’s the kind of plot that could, in a more serious production, scare viewers into not diarising their movements on Instagram, but – told from Joe’s perspective – becomes something more akin to a Joker-esque incel manifesto.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects Aaron Sorkin’s call for new Democrats to grow up

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Admin

Congresswoman takes issue with the The West Wing creator’s suggestion that the fight for equality is a trend

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at Aaron Sorkin after the Oscar-winning screenwriter said on Sunday that the young Democrats needed to “stop acting like young people.”

Sorkin, 57, told Fareed Zakaria in an interview on CNN on Sunday morning: “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people, OK? It’s time to do that.”