13.50 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 15.54 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I said what I said’ … Boyega at the 2020 Baftas. Photograph: Scott Garfitt/Bafta/Rex/Shutterstock John Boyega has been praised for a series of uncompromising social media posts speaking out about racism in the wake of the killing […]
16.02 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 16.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Crash landing … Henry Cavill in Batman v Superman in 2015. Photograph: Warner Bros Pictures Henry Cavill must sometimes wonder if his life might have turned out a little easier were it not for a certain illustrious […]
15.39 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 15.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Do we really need Twitter to tell us our fake president tweets fake things? Is that their job?’ Photograph: YouTube Donald Trump and his “space poodle”, Mike Pence, were in Florida on Wednesday for the […]
15.49 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 15.50 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Irm Hermann, who has died aged 77, in 2000. Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images Irm Hermann, one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s closest collaborators, has died in Berlin aged 77 following what her agent called a “short, serious illness”. […]
13.46 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 14.52 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Nick Anderson’s The Trump Cult cartoon. Photograph: Nick Anderson The Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Nick Anderson has described Donald Trump as an “adolescent wannabe authoritarian”, after the US president’s re-election campaign failed to pull one of Anderson’s cartoons mocking […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 14.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Gary Busey … ‘I was surrounded by angels. Balls of light floating all around me.’ Photograph: Philip Cheung/The Guardian Gary Busey promises I won’t have come across anything like his new show, Pet Judge. He’s right; I […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Fri 29 May 2020 12.07 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 13. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) The internet tells us that Sonic the Hedgehog can run at 362mph. In the film Sonic the Hedgehog, the eponymous hero has to travel from Montana to San Francisco, a distance of […]
08.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Future esports giant … Valorant. Photograph: Riot Games On a Tuesday in early April, viewers around the globe watched streamers on Twitch play one particular game for a combined 34m hours, smashing established live-streaming viewership records. The game in question, Valorant by Riot Games, has […]
16.13 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 15.24 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Photograph: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images It’s difficult to watch Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, a four-hour Netflix series on the now-deceased convicted sex offender without […]
15.11 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 15.58 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Cheesy charm … Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount When you’re 12 the main thing you want to be is 13. You’re desperate to be older. Desperate to grow up. This feeling is particularly […]
11.56 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 12.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski. Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Allstar In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, that classic of locked-down cinema, the photographer LB Jefferies (played by James Stewart) gazes out at his doll’s house kingdom of […]
07.20 BST Last modified on Fri 29 May 2020 07.22 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email If you can get through Terror Firmer you can get through anything. Photograph: Troma Entertainment A film about a series of hilariously grotesque murders on a B-movie film set certainly isn’t going to be to everyone’s taste. […]
07.27 BST Last modified on Fri 29 May 2020 08.18 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Who needs self-critique?’ … Ice Cube. Photograph: Dan Tuffs/The Guardian I’m with my wife, my son, Shareef, and my daughter, Karima, so there’s four in the house. We’ve got plenty of room to get away from each […]
08.22 BST Last modified on Fri 29 May 2020 08.36 BST Playwright Willy Russell in his Liverpool office in 1988. He worked as a hairdresser before becoming a playwright and gave his heroine the same job. ‘I didn’t set out to write an autobiographical play, but the parallels between Rita and me seem glaring now,’ he said. […]
06.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regrets … Green captured the CBGB jukebox but sadly not its legendary toilet. Photograph: Gary Green In early 1976 Gary Green, aged 22 and not long out of college, was living with his parents in the suburbs of Long Island. On weekends he would travel […]
22.25 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 08.50 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Larry Kramer in 1987. Photograph: Catherine McGann/Getty Images The first time many Americans heard about Larry Kramer was from an interview he gave to NBC News in 1983, in which he spelled out for journalist Jane Pauley […]
08.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Face mask with one of Ai Weiwei’s designs. Photograph: Eric Gregory Powell Art has come together with activism in the shape of face masks created by Ai Weiwei which show images of sunflower seeds, mythical beasts and perhaps most appropriately of all, a defiant middle […]
08.10 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 08.11 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Intuition: like a dog-eared 90s potboiler you read on the beach. Photograph: Netflix undefined The Argentinian thriller Intuition begins where most thrillers end. Renegade detective Francisco Juanez (Joaquín Furriel) is dragging his skeptical colleagues deep into a […]
02.19 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 05.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is quite joyful to watch with a small child. Photograph: Netflix “We’ve gotta find every bit of strength that we have and never let it go,” urges the theme song of […]
12.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. ‘A take on modern pop idiosyncratic enough to call his own’ … Jack Garratt. Photograph: Jake Wangner Assuming such things carry on as normal in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in a few months’ time, […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Thu 28 May 2020 12.06 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Pressing the issue … Screened Out With this enthusiastic, info-taining documentary Jon Hyatt runs the risk of stating the bleeding obvious by elaborating on facts everyone is already aware of: staring at your phone for too long […]
14.44 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 20.45 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hannah Gadsby in her comedy special Douglas. Photograph: Ali Goldstein/Netflix The last time Hannah Gadsby released a Netflix special, it changed her life – and arguably, changed comedy. In Nanette, she publicly quit standup, the practice of which – she […]
11.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ken Stott as Rebus in the ITV adaptation of Ian Rankin’s detective series. Photograph: ITV Many crime novels end with a confession but I should start with one: whisper the heresy, but I’m not a big fan of tartan noir as a label for Scottish […]
16.14 BST Last modified on Tue 26 May 2020 16.32 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Michael Bay, whose pandemic-themed film Songbird is edging toward production. Photograph: Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock Back in the heady days of 2006, a minor controversy broke out upon the release of United 93, a film recreating the events of […]
11.53 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 12.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick – the actor is reportedly headed to space to film a space movie. Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Allstar The projected Tom Cruise space movie that became headline news after both Nasa and Tesla […]
16.03 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 10.26 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I couldn’t even do karaoke’ … GaTa and Dave Burd in the FX show Dave. Photograph: FX ‘I couldn’t ignore this thing that was the driving force of my childhood and my neuroticism,” Dave Burd tells me […]
13.59 BST Last modified on Tue 26 May 2020 19.50 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email JK Rowling, pictured in 2018. Photograph: Mark Von Holden/Variety/REX/Shutterstock JK Rowling is to publish a new children’s book, a fairy tale “about truth and the abuse of power” that she has kept in her attic for years, […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 15.45 BST Raiding Detectives, Chicago, Illinois, 1957 Parks rejected media cliches associated with delinquency, drug use, and corruption, opting for a more nuanced view that reflected the social and emotional factors tied to criminal behavior All photographs: Gordon Parks/The Gordon Parks Foundation Facebook Twitter Pinterest New York, NY, […]
08.20 BST Last modified on Wed 27 May 2020 16.46 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Anna Kendrick in Love Life, an easily binged watch. Photograph: HBO Max There’s a canniness to the structure of the slick new anthology series Love Life, which aims to analyse the dating history of one protagonist per […]
07.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mission accomplished … Edward Snowden. Photograph: Laurence Topham/The Guardian In January 2013, the documentary film-maker Laura Poitras asked Barton Gellman if he wanted to grab a coffee. The venue was New York. Poitras told Gellman – a former Washington Post reporter – that a few […]