T here is a low-level hum that forms the soundtrack to many women’s lives. It’s a conditioning. The silent expectation to be the architect of everyone’s day, managing the moods of daily life. Being th

THE NEW FILM HAMNET, BASED ON MAGGIE O’FARRELL’S award-winning 2020 novel, imagines how William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in a haze of grief over the death of his son. In a sly bit of casting, director

IT was new to Eleanor, this feeling. An image of Michele floated into her mind during every moment of her day – an outline of him, or the colour of his eyes. He disturbed her vision when he wasn’t pre

She may be fighting monsters in a post-apocalyptic world in US video-game adaptation Fallout , but all British star Ella Purnell wants is an early night and a cup of tea

Who do you live with and where? I live in North London with my partner, Måns, who is a filmmaker, and our three-year-old daughter. Whenever we have the time, we escape to a little cabin on the west co

Ellie Taylor is known for finding humour in life’s chaos, but even she isn’t immune to the occasional mum meltdown. “In the run-up to last Christmas, everything was frantic and I filmed myself eating