09.15 GMT Last modified on Tue 29 Dec 2020 09.17 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Obinna Nwachukwu in Residue, Gillian Jacobs in I Used to Go Here and Pete Davidson in Big Time Adolescence. Composite: Alamy The Grand Bizarre At the unlikely midpoint between the psychedelic visuals projected on to the wall […]
11.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘What couldn’t I get on with? The news’ … Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Photograph: Enda Bowe/BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu Was there a show this year that everyone else loved but you just couldn’t get on with?Daisy: That’s a hard one. I honestly think I watched every […]
10.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Eight years of baggage needed to be fixed’ … Lauren Mayberry. Photograph: – Following three top 10 albums, the Scottish synthpop trio are preparing to release their fourth this spring, and will hopefully bring their pounding live show back to the festival circuit. Frontwoman Lauren […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 28 Dec 2020 08.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Complex and rewarding storylines … clockwise from top left: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Unto the End, Teardown, Going Under. Composite: Atlus, Tuxedo Labs, Team17, Big Sugar By Lewis Packwood, Matthew Castle, Laura Hudson, Jay Castello, James McMahon, […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 17.39 GMT Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon by Sarah LeeThe two comedians filming on set in Greece. In a joint interview in Weekend magazine, Brydon told writer Laura Barton: ‘I’m a proper fan of [Steve], he’s terrific. Career-wise and work-wise, he’s kind of faultless. On a personal level, […]
07.16 GMT Last modified on Sat 26 Dec 2020 07.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lily Kershaw, Carl Stone and Tayla Parx. Composite: Getty Images/Joe Elliot Purtell Lily Kershaw ft Goody Grace – Now & Then Facebook Twitter Pinterest I first heard Now & Then performed in a living room by a […]
18.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Courttia Newland in West Ham Park, east London, December 2020 Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer Courttia Newland, 47, grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in […]
06.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs The title of Sleaford Mods’ sixth album is apparently an oblique reference to the fatalities in the first wave of coronavirus: “Human lives are always expendable to the elites,” in the words of vocalist Jason Williamson, “we’re in a constant […]
08.17 GMT Last modified on Thu 24 Dec 2020 08.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From clockwise: Kenneth Branagh in Tenet, Jessie Buckley in I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Renee Elise Goldberry in Hamilton and Vince Vaughn in Freaky. Composite: PR The review – Shirley Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy Stock […]
12.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Eva Longoria as Margot Beste-Chetwynde in Decline and Fall. Photograph: Tiger Aspect/BBC For better or worse, I am a literary Anglophile. My mother was too. As a child I remember peeking over her shoulder at the novels she read after dinner: PG Wodehouse, Ngaio Marsh, […]
17.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 19.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Authority figure … Gal Gadot in a scene from Wonder Woman 1984. Photograph: Clay Enos/AP Here is an enjoyable Amazonian incursion into Reagan’s America – but the real wonder is Kristen Wiig, playing the warrior queen’s resentful […]
11.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Surreal dream’ … multiple Emmy winner Dan Levy. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV Was there a show that everyone else loved this year that you just couldn’t get on with? Tiger King. I couldn’t do it. Something about it felt a little too exploitative […]
07.00 GMT ‘This was taken during a hippy carnival, which was cancelled the day before, when public gatherings were forbidden. But a few people came dressed up anyway.’ Brice Dossin: Xmas Vindaloo is published by Dewi Lewis. All images ©Brice Dossin Facebook Twitter Pinterest Local people celebrate Christmas in a vivid way with displays and decorations […]
09.03 GMT Last modified on Wed 23 Dec 2020 10.26 GMT Travelling with the stage and equipment in a single van and adapting to a different space each day, the Covid-secure performances have, according to the theatre’s general manager, Vicky Biles, ‘been a great hit.’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cast prepare before the show. General manager Vicky […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 22 Dec 2020 15.24 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Be seeing you? … (from left) Tenet; Bad Boys for Life; Wonder Woman 1984; No Time to Die. If you had money on drive-in movies making a comeback in 2020, the year’s most talked-about actor being Laurence […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 12.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regé-Jean Page: ‘It takes so little imagination to include people, as opposed to how much thought and effort it takes to keep people out of these stories.’ Photograph: Joseph Sinclair “As an artist, you have to constantly […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 22 Dec 2020 13.13 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Landscape of the Megaliths by Paul Nash, 1937. Photograph: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York We used to look at the landscape through rose-tinted glasses. Quite literally – as Susan Owens makes clear in this evocative and […]
07.00 GMT ‘Red’ the sword swallowerClayton Anderson was a typical 19-year-old – waiting tables, hanging out with friends – when his life took an atypical turn. His father called to tell Red that he needed to come help the family run their cinnamon-roll concession with the carnival. At the insistence of his artist friend Jack Pierson […]
12.05 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 15.57 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dust and rain storm at Parkes, NSW, AustraliaJason Davies/Severe Weather Australia 19 January Dust storms are a pretty common occurrence in Central New South Wales but a colleague said to me: “You might want to come and […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 08.07 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dead-on verisimilitude … Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie. Photograph: Photographer: Des Willie/Sky There’s a scene in I Hate Suzie that is one of the best depictions of drug use I have ever seen on screen. Suzie […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 14.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Host Joe Lycett with contestant Angillia on The Great British Sewing Bee. The series is made by Love Productions, the creator of The Great British Bake Off. Photograph: BBC/Love Productions The X Factor final was once considered […]
17.04 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 18.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers says Donald Trump is not welcome in New York or Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Youtube Seth Meyers “It’s been a tough week for Donald Trump,” said Seth Meyers on Wednesday’s Late Night, just two days […]
16.59 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.01 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The man to save swords-and-sorcery? … Chris Pine in Star Trek. Photograph: Paramount/Bad Robot/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock It is hard to believe that Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings movie, The Fellowship of the Ring, is now almost 20 […]
09.18 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 10.08 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Glorious … Amarah-Jae St Aubyn, left, and Micheal Ward in Lovers Rock. Photograph: Parisa Taghizadeh/AP As for everyone and everything else, this has been a traumatising year for cinema. Many new movies have had to be viewed […]
15.22 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 15.24 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Christmas-themed books (l-r, top): Murder Most Festive, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Mystery in White, (bottom) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, A Christmas Railway Mystery, and A Surprise Christmas Wedding. Composite: PR Christmas […]
17.00 GMT Dan Leno as Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1896 Photograph: Wikipedia / Public domain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Buttons (Will Evans) and one of the ugly sisters (Stanley Empire) in Cinderella at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1919 Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Derek Roy as the nursemaid in […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From the series Sleepless in Soho by Joshua K Jackson. Photograph: Joshua K Jackson Windows are almost ever-present in Joshua K Jackson’s pictures of late-night Soho. Misted up, or rained on or red-lit, glass often separates the restive men and women in his photographs from […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 20.34 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Soul. Photograph: DISNEY / PIXAR Over the years, animation studio Pixar have patented and perfected a particular type of film: bittersweet life lessons of intense depth and emotion, wrapped up in super-slick, cutie-pie visuals. […]
15.10 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 20.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Future Retrieval – Mycology Monday. Photograph: Courtesy of Fort Makers Last month, thousands of cars were lined up for miles in Dallas, Texas. This was not your average rush hour traffic jam or even a wait for […]
10.12 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 10.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Unique talent’ … Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House, pictured in 1951. Photograph: AP A “lost” story by Shirley Jackson, in which the author of The Haunting of Hill House shows a microcosm of […]