Bad Boys: Ride or Die review – buddies, bikinis and lots of dead bodies
Bad Boys: Ride or Die review – Will Smith bromance goes big on Pointless Action Explosions
May 2024
‘People are looking to forgive him’: inside Will Smith’s carefully choreographed comeback
Two years after that slap at the Oscars made him persona non grata, the Fresh Prince is making a fresh start with a return to Bad Boys. His rehabilitation seems assured – so long as his films don’t flop
April 2024
From No Doubt to Will Smith: big stars and surprise guests at Coachella – in pictures
Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment
Stuart Heritage
March 2024
‘The slap’, protests and tears: what makes a memorable Oscar speech?
Daniel Kaluuya thanked his parents for having sex and Will Smith slapped the host. Academy awards bring out the best and worst in winners, but is there a right way to do it?
December 2023
2023 in Culture
The 20 best podcasts of 2023
From fake porn stars to staggering environmental exposés, it’s been a year of extraordinary audio – not least the ‘poodunnit’. It’s our top pods of the year!
October 2023
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: Ghost Story; Class of 88 with Will Smith; Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind – review
‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?
Will Smith: marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith is ‘sloppy public experiment in unconditional love’
Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will Smith have lived separately since 2016
September 2023
Sean Penn: Will Smith slap wouldn’t have happened if Oscars had let Zelenskiy speak
The actor, whose documentary Superpower is about Ukraine’s president, spoke in an interview about Smith’s ‘worst moment as a person’
March 2023
‘Cocaine Bear, leave Malala alone!’: the best quotes of the 2023 Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel roasts Will Smith and the Academy in Oscars monologue
‘It still hurts’: Chris Rock speaks about Will Smith slap for first time
Screen play: our writers pick their favourite sports movies
February 2023
From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies
While Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin lead, the season saw other films with all the requisite ingredients fail to score
December 2022
Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
Review of the year 2022 – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
Chanté is joined by TV critic Scott Bryan and producer Yasmin Philgence to talk through the biggest pop culture moments of 2022
2022: what happened next?
‘That was a horrific night’: how Will Smith has tried to move on after the infamous Oscars slap
The actor striking comedian Chris Rock on stage is all anyone remembers about this year’s Academy Awards – and it has left its mark on both men
Emancipation review – Will Smith is dragged through the mud in ugly, manipulative drama
A runaway slave escapes through Louisiana’s swamps in a propulsive action film marred by its relentless grimness
