15.34 BST Last modified on Thu 30 Jul 2020 16.16 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email All at sea … Kevin Costner in Waterworld. Photograph: Allstar/Universal/Sportsphoto Ltd. When looking back at the most infamous films of the 1990s – Batman & Robin, Judge Dredd and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace spring to mind […]
13.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 40. Soul Stripper (1975) In their infancy, AC/DC weren’t tied to one style. Their first Australian album even featured this intriguing example of a kind of troglodytic hard-rock funk, with cowbells and bongos, neither of which were to become staples of the Akker Dakker sound. […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Fri 31 Jul 2020 07.37 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘As absurd as the premise might be, the film plays out with at least one foot on the ground.’ Photograph: Shudder When it comes to films and shows made during the global pandemic, there’s a fine line […]
08.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Aidan Gallagher plays Number Five in The Umbrella Academy. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix “You don’t understand!” Diego yells at his therapy group. “They’re going to kill the president a week from today!” It is Dallas, 1963, and the six superheroes of The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) […]
12.04 BST Last modified on Fri 31 Jul 2020 09.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Scary, bewildering, but fulfilling, too … Fontaines DC. Photograph: Richard Dumas Do bands have a “difficult second album” or a “difficult third album”? The myth seems to vary. You could argue it’s the fourth or fifth you’ve […]
13.45 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 23.08 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘When you done been persecuted, you learn how to deal with a lot of things in life’ … Brother Theotis Taylor. Photograph: Cyrus Moussavi Struck by the melody of Brother Theotis Taylor’s given name, I’d consulted dictionaries. […]
13.43 BST Last modified on Thu 30 Jul 2020 10.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Rogen made the comments when talking on Marc Maron’s podcast to promote his new film, An American Pickle. Photograph: Hopper Stone/AP Seth Rogen has said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” as […]
07.00 BST Frank Sinatra on the Boardwalk, Miami, 1968O’Neill’s first encounter with Sinatra – on the set of the 1968 film Lady in Cement – was the start of a working relationship that would last almost 30 years. O’Neill, who died in November 2019, collaborated with Mariona Vilarós to rework the original black-and-white image in colour. […]
12.12 BST Ken Campbell in Jamais Vu at the National Theatre, London, 1993. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Suzanne Packer in A Hero’s Welcome by Winsome Pinnock at the Royal Court Upstairs, 1989. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul Scofield in John Gabriel Borkman, directed by Richard Eyre at the National Theatre, 1996. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ron Cook and Sophie […]
17.36 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 22.36 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regina King in Watchmen, the shows based on Alan Moore’s source material. Photograph: HBO HBO’s acclaimed graphic novel adaptation Watchmen leads this year’s Emmy nominations with 26 nods. Lorde and Mick Jagger urge politicians to seek permission […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Mon 27 Jul 2020 07.48 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Adriano Tardiolo in Happy as Lazzaro, not the film you might expect it to be. Photograph: PR The Italian hills have never looked less bucolic than in this strange, melancholy film. The terrain is harsh and unyielding; […]
10.36 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 10.38 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 1:15 Kermit the frog talks to the Guardian’s TV editor about his favourite lockdown shows – video How have you been spending the past few months? Oh, you know, like everybody else, just kind of […]
15.44 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 03.02 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lorde. Photograph: Michael Jamison/Rex/Shutterstock Music stars including Lorde, Sia and Mick Jagger have signed an open letter demanding politicians gain clearance to their music before using songs in campaign advertising or events. The letter, produced in partnership […]
07.00 BST Self-portrait. Abbey Road Studios, London, 1975. Photograph: Linda McCartney Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul and Mary. Scotland, 1969 Photograph: Linda McCartney Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brian Jones, left, and Mick Jagger. Hudson River, New York, 1966 Photograph: Linda McCartney Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Beatles. Abbey Road, London, 1969. Photograph: © Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email President Trump briefs press at the White House. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters During the past few years of Donald Trump’s deranged presidency, if there is one writer I turn to it is Masha Gessen, whose piercing clarity is gemlike and refusal to equivocate precious. Their ability […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘LA, I’m from nowhere, who am I to love you’ … Lana Del Rey in 2017. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Lana Del Rey has a decided aesthetic: a kitsch, drag queen femininity, always heartbroken, always nostalgic for 1950s California. From early albums such as Born to […]
08.00 BST Second place – A Potato: ‘This looks like an alien lifeform, photographed on the surface on a barren planet by a Nasa robot.’ Nigel Atherton Photograph: David White Facebook Twitter Pinterest Untitled: ‘This carefully arranged tableau is a work that stayed most in my mind when I went back and forth through the excellent […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 17.56 BST At the top of Carlotta di Lenardo grandparents’ house is a library where, hidden among the bookshelves, is a door that opens into a secret attic, dominated by an enormous model railway built by her grandfather over the course of his life Facebook Twitter Pinterest During […]
12.58 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Jul 2020 20.42 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tree Roots by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, July 1890. Photograph: Maurice Tromp/Van Gogh Museum The exact location from where Vincent van Gogh is likely to have painted his final masterpiece, perhaps just hours before his […]
13.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Flight risk … Parks and Rec does London. Photograph: NBC/Getty Images There is a widespread misconception that the classic two-series sitcom – Fawlty Towers, The Office, Fleabag – is national character in action. British writers show restraint and an unerring sense of moderation, which, it […]
08.20 BST Last modified on Fri 24 Jul 2020 14.02 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Let There Be Light Photograph: US National Archives In the dog days of the second world war, John Huston travelled to the Mason general hospital in Brentwood, Long Island, to shoot a documentary about […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email It is 8.45am in Los Angeles and Ramy Youssef is at his freshest on what will be a long day full of press interviews. “This is just one of those days of like 30 questions in a row of ‘How is real-life Ramy different from […]
14.31 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Jul 2020 20.43 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The big music: Mike Scott and Trevor Hutchinson of the Waterboys playing Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986. Photograph: Pete Still/Redferns Mike Scott, singer-songwriter I was in Manhattan with my girlfriend, Krista. She asked: “Is it easy to […]
18.15 BST First published on Fri 1 Jul 2016 07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olivia de Havilland, ca. 1942 Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock Olivia de Havilland established herself for ever in the film world’s collective memory at the age of 22, as the wise, gentle and beautiful Melanie Hamilton in the colossal epic […]
07.39 BST Last modified on Sun 26 Jul 2020 20.39 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Johnny Depp outside court last week, holding one of many bouquets that have been given to him by fans throughout the trial. Photograph: Barcroft Media/Getty Images By now those who actually wished to follow the libel war […]
22.04 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Jul 2020 22.29 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Guitarist Peter Green (right) and bassist John McVie, of British rock group Fleetwood Mac, rehearsing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 22 April 1969. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images Peter Green, who has died at the age of […]
20.41 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Jul 2020 22.24 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regis Philbin was a huge figure on US television. Photograph: Bennett Raglin/WireImage Regis Philbin, a host who became a beloved fixture of US daytime television, has died. He was 88. Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Sun 26 Jul 2020 20.39 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Gossamer tones… Jessy Lanza. Photograph: Milos Jacimovic Should you ever find yourself pondering what sort of music ghosts play in the wine bars of the underworld, fret not, for Canadian producer Jessy Lanza has been answering your […]
13.00 BST Last modified on Sun 26 Jul 2020 20.39 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Going his own way… Kamaal Williams. Photograph: Glauco Canalis Street Dreams is the opening track of the second solo album from London keysman Kamaal Williams, and it could easily be the concept for the entire thing: a […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Sun 26 Jul 2020 20.39 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sarah M Broom’s father, Simon, with her siblings outside their house at 4121 Wilson Avenue in 1977. Photograph: Sarah M Broom Sarah M Broom was once employed to tell the official story of New Orleans, of the […]