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We were not expecting to be weeping over the glossy Molly Mae Amazon doc hunnies, but it got us!! We discuss all the revelations and ‘the Molly Mae paradox’. We also had to dive into the latest explosive lawsuit in this increasingly wild It Ends With Us saga, which has now pulled in Taylor Swift and, er, Game of Thrones. Does the flippant public reaction suggest the worrying end of the MeToo movement? And we’ve got a veritable spy extravaganza of reviews and recommendations this week, including Cameron Diaz’s first return to acting in over a decade. Plus, is We Live in Time up to the hype?

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Recs/ reviews

• Anora’s Mikey Madison: ‘I never felt naked filming those scenes’, Style


• Are You a Charlotte? podcast


• I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers, Guardian


• Willem Dafoe, The Louis Theroux podcast


• Molly Mae: Behind it All, Amazon Prime


• The paradox of Molly-Mae Hague, The New Statesman


• How the Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively legal battle ends, to us, Vulture


• Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and the collapse of the Hollywood


• MeToo era, New Yorker


• We Live In Time, cinemas or pre-order on Apple TV


• Let’s Talk About the Way We Live in Time Deals With Death, Time


• Back In Action, Netflix


• Day of the Jackal, Sky Atlantic


• The Agency, Paramount Plus


• Killer, Netflix


• Severance, Disney+