Hints and tips:
...You may feel older still watching rama-lama-ding-dong action movie Monkey Man, a violent revenge story in which Patel is both male lead and debut director....
...The romance between their characters takes flight with Fred-and-Ginger sandwalks, and more arduous dialogue for the male lead. “I’d very much like to be equal to you,” he whispers....
...Despite Gerwig’s omission from the Best Director category, there was at least no repeat of last year’s all-male shortlist....
...By way of expansion, the film awkwardly foregrounds the male aggression Roupenian left queasily implicit....
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Poor Things is in theatres now – You can read the FT’s three-star review of Poor Things, by film critic Danny Leigh here: https://on.ft.com/480VjMg –...
...There, the spark between two former male lovers was revisited after decades. So goes the story here too, albeit in a whole new context: a Western....
...A crash course in economics from mogul-turned-slummer Frank (Danny DeVito) leads the dangerously deluded Dennis (Glenn Howerton) and naive Mac (Rob McElhenney) to tackle inflation by investing in inflatable...
...Some male ticket-holders may be surprised at the volume of female laughter....
...“Many people claim that gender critical feminists are ‘extreme’ in their belief that males should not be admitted to female spaces,” Cates wrote in The Critic....
...A first sip, taken gingerly, reveals the presence of numerous garish additives, some stimulants and the catalysing ingredient of chaotic male energy....
...In our time of ageing male leads, the theme of the old not being quite done yet is familiar. (It turned up in Top Gun: Maverick too). But the execution here is — as the kids say — next level....
...Two female leads, then, though it falls to a male supporting character to wear a T-shirt reading “We Should All Be Feminists”....
...Riddled with anxiety, hairstyle speaking of male pattern baldness and the downy fragility of a chick, he has been spoiled and stunted by his wealthy mother. Or at least so he hints to his analyst....
...Back in 1988, it was another lurid tale of bloodsucking, Vampire’s Kiss, that saw Cage step most dramatically from generic male lead to Hollywood curio....
...Among his contracted players pre-de Havilland was a genial minor male lead called Ronald Reagan.)...
...danny.leigh@ft.com...
...An all-male shortlist may increase concern that the film industry is slipping back into old habits after the victories of #MeToo, although Sarah Polley’s Women Talking has been nominated as Best Picture....
...Danny Harmer, Aviva’s chief people officer, said the insurer had created a commercial leadership programme to develop a diverse pipeline....
...Pity the male model. As laid bare in Triangle of Sadness, the erratic new comedy from Ruben Östlund, even success is a gunge tank of indignity....
...The male lead is where my friends and I fall out. A movie star he is. Still, it is easier to buy the idea of massed cannibals roaming the Midwest than Chalamet driving a pick-up truck....
...But there are many ideas for TV programmes and few slots, so they also tried out another football podcast called Behind Closed Doors, with Lineker and the comedy writer Danny Baker....
...That Poitier was for so long the only black male lead in Hollywood — sit with that pressure for a second — is a vexed topic deftly unpacked....
...Male ego is in the mix, of course. (Siobhán is the saving grace of Inisherin, and Condon every bit as good as the excellent Farrell and Gleeson.)...
...In an extended flashback to 1918, we meet the male leads again as wounded American troops under the care of Robbie’s character, a French nurse who turns out not to be French at all, and more often a Dadaist...
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
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