Simran Hans

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Simran Hans

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Simran Hans

Each morning before filming Lollipop, Posy Sterling took a giant bucket outside, filled it with ice and climbed in. Never mind that it was November or that her call time was at 5am; the actor would take daily dips in the freezing water in the dark. In Lollipop, Sterling plays a headstrong mother who has recently been released from prison and is fighting to win back her kids.The role is heavy, but the ice baths meant she started the days feeling light. “I just found it euphoric,” she says.

1 month ago | newstatesman.com | Simran Hans

In Ang Lee’s 1993 film The Wedding Banquet, the conflict centred around Wai-Tung, a closeted Taiwanese-American man, and his sham marriage to a woman. Fashioned as a screwball comedy but sharply, sensitively observed, it wrung laughter from the awkwardness of navigating cultural and inter-generational differences. With its elaborate central bacchanal and a running joke about Wai-Tung’s live-in white boyfriend secretly cooking all the food, it was an international hit.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Nicole Flattery |Ben Nicholson |Samuel Thomas Davies |Simran Hans

Close to the end of Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, a documentary by Sinéad O’Shea, the writer and critic Andrew O’Hagan forms an assessment of O’Brien’s work. Her strength, he tells us, came from her ability “to embrace ambiguity, to see all around her”. He is referring specifically to her 1994 novel about the Troubles House of Splendid Isolation, but he could be talking about any of her books, including her scandalous debut The Country Girls.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Samuel Thomas Davies |Ben Nicholson |Simran Hans |Anton Bitel

Using the couple’s own tape recordings and a patchwork of archive clips, Kevin Macdonald takes an intriguing show-don’t-tell approach to the first 18 months of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s move to New York in late 1971. 11 April 2025When John Lennon and Yoko Ono left the stately pile of Tittenhurst Park outside Ascot to move into a modest tworoom apartment on Bank Street in New York’s West Village, they installed a TV at the foot of the bed, got in, and never turned it off.