07.36 GMT Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 07.38 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill in Batman v Superman. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros The most famous (or infamous) sequence in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes along just after Batman has bashed Superman over the head with […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 14.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kim Lee and Christine Chiu in Bling Empire. Photograph: Netflix Netflix is proving to be a big hitter in the world of reality TV. Last year, it stole hearts with the dating series Love Is Blind and […]
12.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Study for a Portrait March 1991, by Francis Bacon. Photograph: photosublime/Alamy If I were to visit a floor plan of my artist obsessions and wander from room to room, there would be artists I will always have deep feelings for, the ones who provoke or […]
06.15 GMT Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 07.59 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email No Time to Die, the latest in the James Bond franchise, will not be released until October after coronavirus disruptions. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images James Bond film No Time To Die has been delayed again as Hollywood […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The actor José Garcia as himself in Call My Agent!, with Camille Cottin as Andréa. Photograph: Christophe Brachet/FTV/Monvoisin Prod/Mother Prod If you know, you know. The utterly charming Call My Agent! has become a word-of-mouth hit in the UK, five years after it first began […]
07.34 GMT Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 07.36 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mouth (for L’Oréal), New York, 1986. Photograph: Irving Penn/The Irving Penn Foundation Whether it’s a grainy portrait of Pablo Picasso or a stark picture of ginkgo leaves, you know an Irving Penn photo when you see one. […]
07.33 GMT Last modified on Tue 19 Jan 2021 07.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes in Maid in Manhattan. Photograph: Barry Wetcher/AP 2002 was a bumper year for romcoms. Banking on the commercial safety of a saccharine love story, studios splashed out on everything from the Nick […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 16.41 GMT Negatives and slides, some never properly printed, were stored haphazardly and dragged around multiple house moves. The arrival of digital photography meant that Alexander’s Leica camera got stored away too Facebook Twitter Pinterest When the British Culture Archive started posting Heidi Alexander’s photos of Stockport, Greater […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 14.21 GMT Nepal, from the series Peak, 2019Nepal, home to some of the world’s highest mountains, certainly impressed a photographer from the flat Netherlands. For nearly a month, Bastiaan Woudt travelled to the Himalayas to shoot. Bastiaan Woudt’s new book Peak is accompanied by an online exhibition via […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Derry’s Bogside neighbourhood, February 2013. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer The “thin places” that give this book its title exist in Irish mythology as thresholds or portals to the other side; sites where the veil between this world and the next is most porous. Known to […]
07.34 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 07.36 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ryan Gosling in Only God Forgives. Photograph: Moviestore/Rex Features In the lead-up to the release of Only God Forgives, director Nicolas Winding Refn gave an interview where he referred to himself as “a pornographer”, compelled to making […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 17 Jan 2021 10.12 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Phoebe Dynevor photographed in Cheshire in January 2021 by Phil Fisk for the Observer. It was the gift you never knew you needed, and might even have spurned if you had been offered it in advance: an […]
07.00 GMT You Have Been Warned, TowynMichael Bennett’s Pier Closing Time is an extraordinarily austere document of coastal resorts in North Wales during two seasons of 1979. It had been forgotten about for 40 years but has now been rescued, restored and made available for the first time as a book. Pier Closing Time is available […]
16.46 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 16.53 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers on the reported falling out between Trump and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani: ‘Impeachment was great, but there really is no more perfect way for this to end than Trump stiffing Rudy.’ Photograph: YouTube Seth Meyers […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 15.57 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Unanswered questions … MLK/FBI The FBI’s secret campaign of bugging, harassment and defamation against Martin Luther King Jr in the 60s is the subject of this startling but sometimes frustratingly reticent and guarded documentary. This poisonous dirty-tricks […]
13.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email For around 20 years, American photographer Deanna Templeton has shot street portraits of young women who caught her eye, filing them under the heading “Female” in her expansive digital archive. “I’ve always photographed what interests me,” she says, “but it never occurred to me until […]
15.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘He looked right into my eyes’ … Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City. Photograph: David Yarrow On the final day of exams at Edinburgh University in the summer of 1986, most students partied, but I flew directly to Mexico City. I […]
10.32 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 10.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ariel Pink pictured in 2015. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer US indie musician Ariel Pink has been accused of physically, sexually and emotionally abusing Charlotte Ercoli Coe, his former bandmate and girlfriend. He denies the allegations, calling them […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 12.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Marianne Faithfull is on the phone from her home in Putney, south-west London. She sounds exactly like you would expect: as husky as her singing on every album she has made for the past 40 years and, […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 08.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Fantastic fun … Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany in Wandavision. Photograph: Marvel Studios For those of you not entirely au fait with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wanda Maximoff (AKA Scarlet Witch in the original comics) and Vision […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 09.28 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Disco inferno … Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. Photograph: Echoes/Redferns I Feel Love (Mega Mix) – 1982Donna Summer The only criticism you can make of Giorgio Moroder’s motor-disco landmark is that it is too short. Enter like-minded […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 15.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It is ironic China is now trying to claim this film’ … a scene from 76 Days. In the opening scene of 76 Days, the extraordinary inside story of how Wuhan’s hospitals coped with the initial wave […]
20.24 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 21.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Damson Idris and Anthony Mackie in Outside the Wire Photograph: Jonathan Prime/Netflix Can an action film with a bold anti-war message also trade off the vicarious thrill of watching numerous bullet-strewn battle scenes? It’s an uneasy question […]
16.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 19.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I have a darkness I didn’t have before’ … Ben Chaplin at the National Theatre in London. Photograph: Rii Schroer/Eyevine Sitting in the Los Angeles sun in a T-shirt and a hoodie, Ben Chaplin has a coffee […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 10.04 GMT Sheep Shearing, 1951. Farm workers in Hafod y Llan do the job manually because mechanical shears crop the coat too short for the local climate. All photographs: Grace Robertson/Getty Images (except where indicated) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A group of girls in an Italian village, 1952 Facebook […]
11.59 GMT Last modified on Wed 13 Jan 2021 12.07 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Netflix’s film slate. In the latest skirmish of the streaming wars, Netflix has come out fighting. In a star-studded promotional video, the studio announced a staggering slate of original releases in 2021, with […]
15.16 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 15.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rebekah: ‘As a young DJ I was kind of ruthless … at the cost of myself.’ Photograph: Camille Blake DJ Rebekah remembers the day she walked into a record shop in her native Birmingham to ask for […]
07.00 GMT Heidi: chimpanzee, Zoo Heidelberg, GermanyBehind Glass is an online exhibition by Anne Berry featuring captive primates across Europe. While she is not advocating against zoos, the apes and monkeys in Berry’s photographs look sombre. The exhibition runs until 31 January. To preorder the accompanying book, due in summer, visit anneberrystudio.com. All photographs: Anne Berry […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 09.27 GMT Couple in MG By the Arno, Florence, Italy, 1951Ruth Orkin (1921-85) grew up in Hollywood in its 20s and 30s heyday. She was given her first camera aged 10 and began photographing her friends and teachers. She took a bicycle trip across the US to New […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 20.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olly Alexander: ‘You can see how easy it is for a party lifestyle to turn into something negative.’ Photograph: Hugo Yanguela; Styling: Nick Royal Olly Alexander was so certain he was destined for success that he saw […]