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Ed Sheeran’s new songs hint at cracks in his seemingly perfect, previously ultra-private marriage, while Jessie J has had to set the record straight on her breakup with Channing Tatum. So just how literally should we take pop stars’ lyrics? Also this week, we’re diving into the BBC’s Gossip Girl-style mother-daughter thriller Wild Cherry, the so-called “female Adolescence", David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel Flesh and 2025’s Word of the Year. Plus, the surprising news that we’re technically teenagers until 32, reports of wild parties from the set of Rivals, and, finally, our (spoiler-free) review of Wicked 2!
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Recs/reviews:
- Wild Cherry, BBC iPlayer
- Flesh by David Szalay
- Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
- Ignore the pessimists – we are living through a literary golden age, New Statesman
- How to Stop Time, Matt Haig
- Threw it Away, Jessie J
- Play, Ed Sheeran
- Straight Up behind the music miniseries ep with Ed Sheeran’s manager Stuart Camp
- Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds, The Independent
- Wicked: For Good, in cinemas now
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The Beast in Me is the buzzy new Netflix thriller everyone’s talking about, so this week we’re sharing our (spoiler-free!) review and the standout moments from its star Claire Danes’ latest interviews. First, though, we dive into Jennifer Lawrence’s career-defining performance in Die My Love, also starring Robert Pattinson, and her personal reflections on postpartum life, as well as Charli XCX’s fab Substack on the realities of being a pop star and the celeb newsletter boom more generally. Plus: the brilliant new sci-fi about a romantasy writer, Pluribus; the Guardian’s viral investigation into ‘free birth’ influencers; and Ambika Mod’s latest role as a porn-addicted academic. Enjoy hunnies!
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Recs/reviews:
- Pluribus, AppleTV
- The Lost Bus, AppleTV
- Die My Love, in cinemas now
- ‘Die My Love’ and the savage truth about the postpartum experience, Gillian Orr, Substack
- Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world, Guardian
- The realities of being a pop star, Charli XCX’s substack
- Why is Everybody Losing Weight and What do we do Sincerely? A person who's lost weight, Lizzo’s Substack
- Lizzo Starts Over The pop star’s success once felt radical. Can she capture the Zeitgeist again?, Vulture
- The Beast In Me, Netflix
- ‘I’d barely kissed a boy, but was making out with Adonis’: Claire Danes on sex, spy camp and teen stardom, Guardian
- Porn Play, Royal Court
- The 31-Year-Old Creator Of Porn Play Wanted To “Do Something Provocative”, Vogue
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From Frankenstein, One Battle After Another and Bugonia, to Sinners, Materialists, and The Roses, in this very special bonus episode we're battling it out for the best films of 2025 live from the Curzon cinema Hoxton! Why are so many of this year’s top films so divisive, and is horror taking over Hollywood? Plus, why blockbuster icons like Leonardo DiCaprio should take note of Timothée Chalamet’s marketing tricks for Marty Supreme, the joys of the Wicked press tours, and our Oscar predictions. Finishing up with a few questions from our huns in the audience! TYSM to everyone who joined us, we loved meeting you all and we can’t wait to do more next year.
Thank you so much to our fave cinema Curzon for hosting and sponsoring this episode. PSA for all the huns who want to watch the incredible films reviewed in this ep, Curzon have got a brilliant Black Friday deal on their Classic Film Membership, which runs from 28 November to the 1 December and includes a whopping seven free cinema tickets instead of the usual five, as well as 20% off all additional cinema tickets for you and a guest, and 10% off food and drink in all Curzon cinemas. Find out more here.
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Recs/reviews
- Frankenstein, Netflix
- Bugonia, in Curzon cinemas now
- One Battle After Another, AppleTV
- Eddington, Amazon Prime Video
- Lilo and Stitch, Disney+
- After The Hunt, Amazon Prime Video
- The Roses, Disney+
- Materialists, Amazon Prime Video
- The Ballad of Wallis Island, Amazon Prime Video
- Wicked: For Good, in Curzon cinemas now
- Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Amazon Prime
- Sinners, Amazon Prime Video
- Weapons, Amazon Prime Video
- Babygirl, AppleTV
- Die My Love, in Curzon cinemas now
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer has just dropped and we couldn’t be more thrilled about it! Will Miranda and Andy’s return live up to the iconic first film? Also this week: Jack Whitehall’s glossy thriller Malice, the Caroline Flack documentary that reveals new details about the role the tabloids and police played in her tragic passing, Louis Theroux interviews Florence Pugh, Hilary Duff is making a comeback, Rachel Sennot’s fab influencer comedy I Love LA, Michelle Obama publishes a fashion book and Paris Hilton has been problematic again. Enjoy hunnys and look out for our bonus episode next Wednesday!
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Recs/reviews
- I Love LA, NOW TV
- Malice, Amazon Prime
- Californication, Paramount +
- ‘Diabolical move’: Miranda Priestly’s red shoes get Instagram fashion no-no, Guardian
- Allow Hilary Duff to Reintroduce Herself, Vogue
- Florence Pugh on the Louis Theroux podcast
- Michelle Obama at 61: ‘I feel as free now as I did when I was a kid’, The Times
- Paris Hilton: ‘I’m not scared of anything — except spiders, bees and dying’, The Times
- Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth, Disney+
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Sydney Sweeney’s new film Christy has bombed at the box office, days after her GQ cover interview went viral for all the wrong reasons. Are her days as Hollywood’s golden girl over? We take a look at evolving public image and explore whether her controversies have actually damaged her career. Also on the show: how Sarah Snook’s new kidnapping thriller has prompted a conversation about the gender gap, the I'm A Celeb lineup, what Timothée Chalamet’s very revealing Vogue interview means for Kylie, and we are so here for JLaw’s comeback! Finally, is it fair to say Kim Kardashian has created the worst TV show of all time with All’s Fair? Plus two fab new book recommendations.
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Recs/reviews
- All Her Fault, Sky/ NowTV
- All her Fault is a misandrist masterpiece, Vulture
- Sarah Snook And Dakota Fanning On How New Show ‘All Her Fault’ Reveals The “Invisible Labor” Women Take On In Relationships, Deadline
- Sarah Snook on Why She Opted for ‘All Her Fault’ After ‘Succession’: “I Can’t Top That, So Finding Something Different Was Really Important”, Hollywood Reporter
- Our October bonus ep: The myth of having it all and how to break free
- Did women ruin the workplace?, New York Times
- Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson Vanity Fair lie detector test, YouTube
- Jennifer Lawrence, The Interview podcast (NYT)
- Sydney Sweeney, GQ
- The Universe According to Timothée, Vogue
- All’s Fair, Disney
- Is All's Fair really the 'worst TV drama ever'? BBC
- The All's Fair cast: ‘It’s good to see women come together and protect one another', Glamour
- With ‘All’s Fair,’ Ryan Murphy gives us the ultimate Trump-era TV show, LA Times
- ‘All’s Fair’ and the New Television of Nothingness, Hollywood Reporter
- Have we passed peak social media? Financial Times
- Shield of Sparrows, Devney Perry
- Under The Blue, Suzannah V Evans
- The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden
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