13.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 30 Nov 2020 20.47 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Grant has gone to great pains to show his ugly side’ … The Undoing. Photograph: HBO Hugh Grant made his name in the 90s as a squeaky-clean charmer, but anyone who has been keeping tabs on his […]
18.41 GMT First published on Mon 30 Nov 2020 10.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rita Ora at Milan fashion week in September. The singer turned 30 last week. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images for Fendi The singer Rita Ora is likely to escape a personal fine after breaching Covid rules to attend […]
10.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email She’s a bad, bad momma. The matriarch of this bad family. A controlling, violent, violent woman…” says Lesley Manville, who has turned out to be spectacularly good at playing bad. She’s talking about her latest film, Let Him Go, in which she plays Blanche Weboy, […]
07.00 GMT I took up cycling in early May and it has been a mental health lifesaver and something that, even when this Covid-19 period is over and the memory of how painful it has been has begun to fade, I’ll look back on as a wonderful discovery. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Facebook Twitter Pinterest Like many […]
07.15 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Working as a journalist in Gaza, says Palestinian photographer Jehad al-Saftawi, is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. “You must always watch where you step. Each neighbourhood is composed of its own intimate social network, and travelling through them with a camera makes […]
13.36 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 13.39 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A question of taste and tradition … from left, Arnold Schoenberg, Claudio Monteverdi and John Adams. Composite: Getty/Christian Jungeblodt The aim of the Know the score series was straightforward. To assist the reader who is curious about […]
17.09 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 17.17 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Barack Obama: ‘Had we just taken those steps, there is no doubt that we would’ve saved some lives and ironically, the economy would be better.’ Photograph: YouTube Stephen Colbert More than three weeks removed from the election, […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 04.48 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘My mum disputes some details of McQueen’s retelling – notably the tactile dancing.’ Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St Aubyn (centre) in Lovers Rock. Photograph: Parisa Taghizadeh/BBC/McQueen Limited At the halfway mark of Lovers Rock, the new Steve […]
14.35 GMT Last modified on Mon 23 Nov 2020 15.11 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson in Unbreakable. Shyamalan’s $75m shooting budget would only be something to sneeze at by today’s inflated standard. Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar If they gave awards for the dumbest expository title cards […]
10.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 15.05 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rachel Bloom: ‘I would have had to get my boobs out more if we were on Showtime, and I was fully prepared to.’ Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP On the day in April that Rachel Bloom finally took her […]
15.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 18.42 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘The cub was crying like a child’ … the bears nearing the ship. Photograph: Esther Horvath In the autumn of 2019, I joined an expedition to the Arctic. We set sail from Tromsø, Norway, on 20 September, […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 27 Nov 2020 08.46 GMT Grace Jones, New York, 1981 Photograph: Adrian Boot/urbanimage.tv Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wham! Photograph: Tony McGee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skepta Photograph: Ki Pharaoh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beth Ditto“Having photographed the likes of Liam Gallagher, Pete Townshend and Beth Ditto, the thrill of making new images and meeting […]
17.12 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 17.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Feeling her feelings … Taylor Swift in The Long Pond Studio Sessions. Pre-pandemic, few artists were so keenly attuned to the music industry’s calendar as Taylor Swift. She timed her album releases for awards contention and singles […]
09.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Margaret Atwood: ‘she cannot resist a joke’. Photograph: Arthur Mola/Invision/AP Margaret Atwood does not do nostalgia. This collection of poems, her first in over 10 years, is a reckoning with the past that comes from a place of wisdom and control. Now 81, she harnesses […]
15.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Pussy Galore to Ariana’s Barbarella… Kali Uchis. If Ariana Grande is pop’s Barbarella, then Kali Uchis is surely its Pussy Galore. The Los Angeles-based 26-year-old specialises in slow-jam hybrids of shimmering soul, lipgloss-sticky funk, sugary R&B and syrupy trap-pop with (you get the consistency) a […]
09.00 GMT Glastonbury, UK, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Glastonbury, UK, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sasquatch Music Festival, Washington, 2013 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taiwan, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lincoln, Nebraska, 2012 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coachella, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The End, Nashville, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seaside Heights, […]
08.00 GMT Winner – Where History Happened | Palmyra, Syria‘This image was taken before the civil war in Syria at the ancient city of Apamea. I’d dragged my family out of bed early, when it was cold and dark, to ensure we were at the Great Colonnade early enough to catch sunrise and the golden hour. […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 26 Nov 2020 13.54 GMT Afronauts, 2014, by Nuotama BodomoAfronauts is a short film set in 1969 that portrays the Zambia Space Academy’s attempt to beat the US to the moon with the help of teenaged astronaut-in-training Matha Mwamba. Bodomo’s film contemplates the possibility of a person of African origin being […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 13.31 GMT Seashore Park Inn, Orleans“For most people, Cape Cod is about summer vacations by the sea. Sun-drenched days at the beach, splashing in the ocean. Overindulging on oysters, fried clams, and ice cream. Sipping cold beer and cocktails while the sun sets.” Brian Kaplan’s book I’m Not […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 08.31 GMT The Unreturning at the Traverse, Edinburgh, in 2018. Designed by Andrzej Goulding. Facebook Twitter Pinterest wonder.land at the Palace theatre, Manchester, in 2015. Designed by Rae Smith. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three Hours After Marriage at the Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1996. Designed by Tim Goodchild. Facebook Twitter […]
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 […]