07.00 GMT Moonraker, 1979Roger Moore is notably dapper in this still from Moonraker, where he’s posing with the MP Lafer sports car that his contact in Rio, Manuela (Emily Bolton), uses to tail him in the early scenes. The Lafer was a Brazilian-built replica of Britain’s MG TD of the late 1940s. Cars on Film: A […]
17.25 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 17.27 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 5 / 5 stars 5 out of 5 stars. ‘Victory lap’ … Megan Thee Stallion. Photograph: PR On YouTube, you can still see one of Megan Thee Stallion’s early appearances at a 2016 rap cypher in Houston. […]
12.32 GMT Last modified on Tue 24 Nov 2020 15.17 GMT First prize winner:Alys Tomlinson – Samuel, from the series Lost Summer, July 2020 A series of black and white portraits of London school-leavers dressed up for their proms, which were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tomlinson was the winner of the £15,000 first prize. You […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 23 Nov 2020 11.43 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Video games are fun and interesting, and doing fun, interesting things makes you happy.’ Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images After an Oxford study this week showed that people who play more video games report greater wellbeing, the headlines reflected […]
00.01 GMT Last modified on Mon 23 Nov 2020 14.12 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sally Rooney, Zadie Smith, and Toni Morrison. Composite: Patrick Bolger, Getty, Murdo MacLeod Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world, with […]
16.22 GMT First published on Sun 22 Nov 2020 16.01 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rodney P has been a fixture on the UK hip-hop scene for more than three decades. Photograph: Everynight Images/Alamy Two women who accuse the British hip-hop star Rodney P of domestic abuse have told the Guardian they […]
17.42 GMT Last modified on Sun 22 Nov 2020 00.29 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 0:37 Director insults actor Lukas Gage’s apartment while unmuted during Zoom audition – video It appears the mute button is becoming harder to find these days. Hollywood is now rallying its support for an actor who […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 23 Nov 2020 16.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I was an eccentric child and obsessed with history’: Russell Tovey. Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Observer I texted God when I was 18. It cost 30p to message him with your question. I asked if I’d make it […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Gabriel Byrne: ‘His love for, and loss of, his parents is palpable.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian “How many times have I returned in my dreams to this hill?” asks Gabriel Byrne in the opening sentence of Walking With Ghosts, immediately setting alarm bells ringing in […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Barack Obama and Joe Biden ride together in the motorcade from the White House to sign the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, July 2010. Photograph: Pete Souza/The White House Like the best autobiographers, Barack Obama writes about himself in the hope of […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Wonderwall … Ian MacKaye at Dischord’s office in Arlington, Virginia. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images “Do you know what I call an un-played record?” asks Ian MacKaye. “A piece of fucking trash. It’s paper and plastic. So if I make something, I want to […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 06.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Was rap exploited?’ … Bobby Shmurda in the artwork for Louder Than A Riot from NPR. Photograph: Dale Edwin Murray for NPR Picks of the week Louder Than A RiotThis superlative hip-hop podcast promises to “trace the […]
15.42 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 15.43 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Heaven’s Gate. Photograph: Ronald Grant For 40 years, Heaven’s Gate has been synonymous with “expensive flop”. And not just any expensive flop, but the type of boondoggle associated with the fussy indulgences of a […]
04.52 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 04.53 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown. Photograph: tinachiou/Tina Chiou Charles Yu, a writer whose talents range from short stories to episodes of HBO’s Westworld, has won the National Book Award for fiction for Interior Chinatown. The novel, […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A boy plays in the Rivière of Galets, 1991, by Bruno Barbey. Photograph: Magnum Photos In the obituaries of Bruno Barbey, among the greatest of photojournalists, who died aged 79 on 9 November, one quotation was ever-present: “Photography,” Barbey said, “is the only language that […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 11.21 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis Photograph: Art Streiber “It’s a gay Christmas movie,” says Kristen Stewart. “And I know that’s an annoying thing to label it right off the bat, but, for me, that is extremely attractive, […]
10.14 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 11.32 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Greatness not released … The Myth and Mystery of Anja Thauer. Photograph: Only the Best :-))/Tully Potter Collection Do we hear music differently if there’s tragedy in the life story of its composer or performer? And if […]
09.34 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 09.36 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Celine Dion performing in 2019. Photograph: Alice Chiche/AFP via Getty Images Céline Dion has lost a $13m dispute with her former concert agent, who she accused of being “wildly” overpaid for a $489m (£370m) negotiation he made […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 04.36 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961. Photograph: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock “Very alert, very smart, very talented, very ambitious.” That was the director William Wyler’s verdict after watching a screen test for Roman Holiday by a young chorus girl called […]
16.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 18.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Arlo Parks: ‘When you approach the world with vulnerability and openness, people return that energy.’ Photograph: Alex Kurunis Does anyone really want to be the voice of a generation? It’s a question that 20-year-old Arlo Parks is […]
17.00 GMT Momento Mori, by Tiffany Matheson. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Our Dying Coral Reefs, by Felicia Murray Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mask for Our Times, by Serge Clottey Facebook Twitter Pinterest Breathing Apparatus, by Adrienne DeLoe Facebook Twitter Pinterest Porcupine Fish, by Liz Sexton Facebook Twitter Pinterest BYOO (Bring Your Own Oxygen), by Tracy Tomko Facebook Twitter […]
19.54 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 18.46 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain was the bestselling novel on the Booker shortlist. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer Though there were four debuts on the Booker shortlist, it’s been more than a decade since a debut won. And with […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 04.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 30. Rude Boy (1965) The ska-era Wailers launch themselves into the 60s Jamaican vogue for singles either praising or condemning the violent Kingston “rude boy” youth cult. Tellingly, given the socio-political songs that lay ahead of him, […]
06.05 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 06.17 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Garnet Rubio in Born to Be. Photograph: Kino Lorber / Film Forum Garnet Rubio moved to New York City from Texas at 19 with a singular mission: transitioning. While her friends attended college, Rubio worked as a […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 12.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email An automaton for sale at Whitby Steampunk Weekend in February. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Is your brain a computer? Is mine? Is Boris Johnson’s? And if so, where is the tech support hotline? Brains were once conceived […]
15.31 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 09.15 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Keeping it real? BTS. BTS’s leader RM looks up from under a black baseball cap, then stares back down at his hands. “Doing the promotional interviews, [I kept saying], ‘Music truly transcends every barrier.’ But even while […]
09.30 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 20.15 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email JRR Tolkien, in his study at Merton College, Oxford, in 1956. Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images A previously unpublished collection of writings by JRR Tolkien, exploring the world of Middle-earth in essays tackling topics ranging from Elvish reincarnation […]
10.50 GMT Last modified on Wed 18 Nov 2020 14.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lee paid tribute to his mother for helping him overcome his early dislike of musicals. Photograph: Michael Buckner/Variety/REX/Shutterstock Spike Lee is to direct a musical about the impotence medication Viagra, it has been revealed. According to Deadline, […]
13.15 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 16.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Murder by numbers … Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Photograph: Activision In the brave new era of battle royale, where games are free and everlasting, the concept of paying £60 for an annual first-person shooter […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 16.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tough questions … Cătălin Tolontan in Collective. Photograph: Magnolia Pictures For years, actually for decades, Romanian directors have been warning us about top-to-bottom official corruption in their homeland – an insidious malaise undermining the state and infecting […]