Celebrity interviews without substance seem to be officially out, as the reaction to Kim Kardashian’s surprisingly flat Call Her Daddy episode proved last week, while thoughtful conversations about art (think Cillian Murphy and Stephen Graham) are in. We discuss! Also this week: Callum Turner’s heart-melting Sunday Times interview about Dua Lipa, Lily Allen’s candid Vogue comeback piece, Britney Spears' response to Kevin Federline’s new memoir, as well as our reviews of Molly Mae: Behind It All S2 and the Austin Butler–Zoë Kravitz film. Plus two gripping true-crime recs: a podcast discovery courtesy of a hun, and Netflix’s ‘revolutionary’ new doc The Perfect Neighbor.

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Recs/reviews

• Wisecrack podcast 
• The Perfect Neighbor, Netflix 
• The Perfect Neighbor: How a 'revolutionary' CCTV film captures a shocking US killing, BBC
• Callum Turner: ‘Love? It’s never not worth it’ The Times
• Gwyneth’s Second Coming: “I’m Much Easier On Myself, I Would Say”, Vogue
• ‘It Was a Way for Me to Process What Was Happening’: Lily Allen on Marriage, Motherhood, and Her Music Comeback, Vogue
• Britney Spears: the brutal media shaming of America’s teen dream, Straight Up 
• You Thought You Knew, Kevin Federline  
• Britney Spears, The Woman in Me 
• Kim Kardashian on Call Her Daddy
• Kim Kardashian’s faux pubic hair thong is a patriarchal fever dream, Impact
• Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes, in all good bookshops
• The Beauty Queens of MAGA World, Wall Street Journal
• Caught Stealing, available to rent on Amazon Prime etc

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