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Will Smith

September 2024

  • Stuart Heritage

    Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?

    Stuart Heritage
    The Friends actor says he regrets not going for the role made famous by Will Smith, but could he have made ‘I make this look good’ as good?

June 2024

  • Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die

    Bad Boys: Ride or Die review – buddies, bikinis and lots of dead bodies

  • This image released by Sony Pictures shows Will Smith, left, and Martin Lawrence in "Bad Boys: Ride or Die." (Frank Masi/Columbia Pictures-Sony via AP)

    Bad Boys: Ride or Die review – Will Smith bromance goes big on Pointless Action Explosions

May 2024

  • Will Smith at the European premiere of Bad Boys” Ride or Die in 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

  • man in a suit and tie singing

    From No Doubt to Will Smith: big stars and surprise guests at Coachella – in pictures

  • Stuart Heritage

    Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment

    Stuart Heritage

March 2024

  • Daniel Kaluuya accepts the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role on 25 April 2021.

    ‘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

  • Top of the pods ... (clockwise from top) Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Smith, Jazzy Jeff, Nish Kumar and Coco Khan.

    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

  • Naomi Dancy, the great-grandmother of Tristan Redman’s wife Kate.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Ghost Story; Class of 88 with Will Smith; Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind – review

  • Britney Spears in concert

    ‘Juicy revelations are required’: will Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith memoirs satisfy?

  • Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild (Sag) Awards in 2022.

    Will Smith: marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith is ‘sloppy public experiment in unconditional love’

  • Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2022 Oscars.

    Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will Smith have lived separately since 2016

September 2023

  • Actor and director Sean Penn attends a summit in Ukraine on 6 September.

    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

  • 95th Academy Awards - Oscars Show - Hollywood<br>Ke Huy Quan wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Everything Everywhere All at Once" during the Oscars show at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 12, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

    ‘Cocaine Bear, leave Malala alone!’: the best quotes of the 2023 Oscars

  • Jimmy Kimmel at the 95th Academy Awards.

    Jimmy Kimmel roasts Will Smith and the Academy in Oscars monologue

  • Chris Rock performing at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore on Saturday night.

    ‘It still hurts’: Chris Rock speaks about Will Smith slap for first time

  • Stills from Bring It On, Bull Durham, Ali and Hoop Dreams

    Screen play: our writers pick their favourite sports movies

February 2023

  • This image released by Universal Pictures shows Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor, left, and Carey Mulligan as Megan Twohey in a scene from "She Said." (JoJo Whilden/Universal Pictures via AP)

    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

  • Photograph: ROBYN BECK Getty Images

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Review of the year 2022 – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

  • Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock on stage during the 94th Academy awards in March.

    2022: what happened next?
    ‘That was a horrific night’: how Will Smith has tried to move on after the infamous Oscars slap

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