18.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ethan Hawke on his roof in Brooklyn, New York, October 2020. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Guardian Ethan Hawke is an actor, writer and director, star of the films Dead Poets Society, Training Day and Boyhood. He has been nominated for Academy Awards for his acting, and […]
08.04 GMT Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 14.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From clockwise: On the Count of Three, Censor and Passing Composite: PR Even in any normal year, trying to predict what will and won’t land at the Sundance film festival is something of a fool’s errand. It’s […]
15.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 17.24 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Celeste: ‘I have gone down a path of intrigue, towards the relationship between artist and muse’ Photograph: Elizaveta Porodina Critics may adore the new school of British jazz – acts such as Moses Boyd, Sons of Kemet […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Photograph: Daniel Smith/Allstar/Warner Bros On 2 January this year, the day after The Great Gatsby entered the US public domain, The Great Gatsby Undead was […]
00.01 GMT Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 00.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Notably different … Sasha De Sola and Lucas Erni in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photograph: Erik Tomasson Now that all arts consumption is online, geography is no barrier, and there are chances to see shows that rarely […]
07.00 GMT Acrobatic members of the Mighty Jambo Circus Academy stretch before their training routine at the academy in Nairobi Facebook Twitter Pinterest A member of the academy performs a stunt during a training routine Facebook Twitter Pinterest The academy, which depends on performances in Europe, especially Spain, has been forced to turn to local performances […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 10.06 GMT Issac Zora In Ava’s Yard, Apopka, Florida, 2017Sasha Phyars-Burgess was born in Brooklyn, New York to Trinidadian parents, and was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bard college in 2010 with a BA in photography. Sasha is a vital, emerging voice in contemporary photography – […]
10.30 GMT Last modified on Wed 27 Jan 2021 10.59 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Making sense of the fallen adult world… a still from the 2003 film version of I’m Not Scared. Photograph: Allstar/Miramax Over the past few years, I’ve been preoccupied with stories of children fending for themselves, raising each […]
16.30 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 16.33 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Based on tired tropes’: Maddie Ziegler in Music. Photograph: Merrick Morton When my girlfriend and I sat down to watch Music, the directorial debut of Australian pop superstar Sia, we were well aware of the tide of […]
11.53 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 11.56 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Jungle Cruise in Disneyland. Photograph: M2 Photography/Alamy Disney is to overhaul its Jungle Cruise theme park attraction to remove what it describes as “negative depictions of native peoples” and to “reflect and value the diversity of […]
08.02 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 18.32 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from A Woman’s Work. Photograph: 1091 Maria Pinzone thought she had landed her dream job when, in 2012, she successfully auditioned for the Jills, the cheer squad for her beloved hometown NFL team, the Buffalo […]
18.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 18.16 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Denzel Washington and Jared Leto in The Little Things. Unfortunately, the big problems in this film are impossible to ignore. Photograph: Nicola Goode There’s a self-serious portent to the drab serial killer thriller The Little Things, a […]
07.00 GMT A statue called The Phoenix – commissioned to mark the regeneration of the city centre – stands by the Bull Yard shopping centreAfter Coventry’s city centre was flattened by bombing in the second world war, much of it was rebuilt using concrete. Over 10 years Coventry was reshaped, with new shopping centres, blocks of […]
17.19 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 17.26 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers to Republicans arguing impeachment of Donald Trump for insurrection will ‘stir up’ the country: ‘You guys already did the stirring; you don’t get to pretend everything’s just fine now.’ Photograph: YouTube Seth Meyers Less than […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 16.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘How do you live in the aftermath?’ … author and lawyer Abigail Dean in Dulwich Park, London. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian Abigail Dean was about to turn 30 when she suddenly realised that her job as a […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 12.12 GMT Roy Mehta’s new book Revival features tender photographs of the African-Caribbean and Irish communities who lived in west London during the early 90s. Much of Roy’s work centres around projects that encapsulate the complexity of identity and belonging. Revival is published through Hoxton Mini Press. Mehta […]
17.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 17.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Justin Timberlake and Ryder Allen in Palmer, a film content to play it safe. Photograph: Publicity image Within the first 15 or so minutes of Apple TV+’s Palmer, something clicks in, a feeling of overwhelming familiarity, an […]
08.09 GMT Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 08.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in Gigli. Photograph: Allstar/Columbia We were discussing biases and groupthink, my critic friend and I, when he recalled the press screening for the 2003 megabomb Gigli. “I had to spend 20 minutes […]
12.19 GMT Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 15.57 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Keira Knightley at the world premiere of Misbehaviour in London, in March 2020. Photograph: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Keira Knightley has expressed her discomfort with shooting intimate scenes, saying that she will no longer do so if the […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Derbyshire Dales, 1978, by Barry Lewis. There was a time when a day out in the Derbyshire dales did not come with the risk of drone surveillance or police sting operations against coffee-sipping walkers. Barry Lewis took this picture of a dozing foursome in […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 23 Jan 2021 15.22 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Paint it black … Jordan Olds AKA Gwarsenio Hall. Photograph: McKenzie Leek and Ashley Rose Back in 2016, an unusual talkshow emerged. Two Minutes to Late Night was hosted by the comedian Jordan Olds’s corpse-painted alter ego […]
10.54 GMT Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 11.41 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hugely replayable … Hitman 3. Photograph: IO Interactive It is when I am shot by two armed guards while attempting to steal a banana from a desk that I realise Hitman is a game of contradictions. On […]
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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 […]