Tag: Olivia
VMAs 2021: Olivia Rodrigo and Lil Nas X triumph in a return-ish to normal
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It was a night of triumph for teen stars current (Olivia Rodrigo) and former (Justin Bieber) at the MTV Video Music Awards, in a show that strayed from the pandemic markers and political gestures that have defined mos...
TV tonight: Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as two killers on the run
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Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are perfectly cast as seemingly ordinary, if ever so slightly creepy, Susan and Christopher Edwards – who are also two killers on the run. Based on a murky true story, this four-part d...
This week’s new tracks: Olivia Rodrigo, Liz Phair, the Goon Sax
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If Rodrigo’s star-making Drivers License mournfully pored over mementos of a lost love, her new one douses the trinkets in kerosene and lets them burn. On a 00s-indebted blast of punk-pop sunshine, Rodrigo snarls, sh...
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman shines in Elena Ferrante missing-kid drama
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A rich, complex and fascinating performance from Olivia Colman is what gives this movie its piercing power: she has some old-school star quality and screen presence. Colman is the centre of a stylish feature debut fro...
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman lights up Elena Ferrante psychodrama
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Olivia Colman gives a powerhouse turn in The Lost Daughter, prickly and combustible as Leda Caruso, a middle-aged languages professor on a working holiday in Greece. In flight from her past, possibly from herself, she...
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman compels in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s eerie psychodrama
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature debut as writer-director is an impressively atmospheric piece of work – filled with longing and dread, and heavy with the anticipation of buried secrets about to be revealed. Deftly adapted...
The 50 best albums of 2021, No 8: Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
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“Who is Olivia Rodrigo?” At the start of this year, that question would have resulted in a shrug from most people over the age of 20. But by the second week of January, after releasing the lovelorn power ballad Driver...
Taking back control: Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo’s films celebrate craft, not drama
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Moments into Olivia Rodrigo’s documentary Driving Home 2 U, we see her turn on a camera in the shoebox-sized home studio of her producer, Daniel Nigro, state the date – March 2021 – and squirm as he plays the first so...
Portland Thorns’ Olivia Moultrie, 15, files lawsuit for right to play in NWSL
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A 15-year-old has sued in federal court for the right to play in the National Women’s Soccer League, which doesn’t allow players under 18. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Portland, Oregon, on behalf of Olivia Moultrie ...
Paralympian Olivia Breen dismayed after being told sprint briefs ‘too short’
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The double Paralympic world champion Olivia Breen says she was left speechless and outraged after being told that her competition briefs were “too short and inappropriate” by an official while competing at the English...
Olivia Williams: ‘I’ve been close enough to stardom to see how horrifying it is’
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What I wouldn’t have given to be in an actual room with Olivia Williams, rather than down a Zoom. For all her early-90s RSC pedigree, she is forever the surprise find of The Postman, Rushmore and The Sixth Sense, film...
Olivia Williams: ‘I have unattractive knees. They have taken offence at my scathing remarks and decided to stop functioning’
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Born in London, Olivia Williams, 53, studied at Cambridge University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre school before joining the RSC. Her movies include The Postman, The Sixth Sense, Rushmore and The Father, and her TV work...
Olivia Wilde was served papers onstage. It’s no shock to those in the business
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The actor Olivia Wilde was discussing a forthcoming film on stage this week when she received a mysterious envelope, passed across the stage by someone in the front row. The contents, according to various reports, wer...
Olivia Rodrigo: Spotify’s tracking is all about smoke and mirrors
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Olivia Rodrigo claimed the top two positions on Spotify’s most-streamed songs list in the UK this year, with just one surprise, given her ubiquity – that the Paramore-esque Good 4 U edged out Drivers License, which is...
Olivia Rodrigo: Sour review – the perfect soundtrack to a first breakup
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Keen not to be defined by January’s record-breaking ballad Drivers License, 18-year-old Disney-actor-turned-singer Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album opens with a surprise. “I want it to be, like, messy,” she blurts at the ...
Olivia Rodrigo: Sour review – cathartic rage at teenage heartbreak
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Even in a world where streaming’s rise means chart records are broken all the time, the debut single by Disney star Olivia Rodrigo is an anomaly. Upon the release of Drivers License in January, it had the biggest firs...