10.15 GMT Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 13.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I have to keep smiling’ … Billie Eilish. Photograph: Koury Angelo/Getty Images for Apple In a typical scene from Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the documentary’s pop star subject is in the back yard, surrounded […]
14.07 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 14.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Alicia Silverstone, George Clooney and Chris O’Donnell in Batman & Robin – a film you love? Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros For the last two months, we’ve tasked Guardian writers with the unenviable: putting together an impassioned defence of […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 08.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Clone rangers … Laura Dern and Sam Neill in Jurassic Park. Photograph: Allstar/Universal In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle […]
17.30 GMT Last modified on Wed 10 Feb 2021 17.34 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Bruce Springsteen in 2018. Photograph: Brad Barket/Invision/AP Bruce Springsteen is facing a drunk driving charge for an incident in New Jersey in November. A spokesperson for the national parks service confirmed that Springsteen was arrested on 14 […]
15.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Run-and-jump romp of a game … Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. Photograph: Nintendo Almost every significant game Nintendo made for its interesting but ill-fated Wii U console has found its way on to the vastly more popular Nintendo Switch, either as a rerelease […]
11.33 GMT Last modified on Tue 9 Feb 2021 11.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Inspired by her mother’s difficult life … Moufida Tlatli. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images Moufida Tlatli, the pioneering Tunisian film-maker hailed as the first Arab woman to direct a feature film, has died aged 73. News media said […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 06.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A fecund brew … A Glitch in the Matrix. Photograph: courtesy of Magnolia Pictures With Room 237, a deep dive into theories about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, writer-director-animator Rodney Ascher practically invented a new sub-genre of documentary: […]
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 […]
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 […]
21.52 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 21.54 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tracy Chapman and Nicki Minaj. Photograph: GETTY IMAGES Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay $450,000 to Tracy Chapman over a copyright infringement dispute. The rapper had been set for trial after the singer sued her for using […]
09.40 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 09.42 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email DaBaby performs for the MTV EMAs in October 2020. Photograph: Getty Images for MTV Chart-topping rapper DaBaby has been arrested in Los Angeles for possession of a loaded and concealed gun. The rapper, whose real name is […]
11.38 GMT Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 15.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Reinventing or reenacting? … Orwell’s Animal Farm. Photograph: Nerial In my version of Animal Farm, Boxer the workhorse doesn’t go to the knacker’s yard. He spends his retirement peacefully, following the abandonment of the windmill project. The […]
06.05 GMT First published on Wed 6 Jan 2021 05.45 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dr Dre said he will be ‘back home soon’ after he was hospitalised in Los Angeles Photograph: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Billionaire rapper and producer Dr Dre says he will be “back home soon” after receiving medical treatment at […]
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 […]
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 […]
18.29 GMT Last modified on Thu 10 Dec 2020 18.31 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ellen DeGeneres has tested positive for Covid-19. Photograph: James Devaney/GC Images Ellen DeGeneres has tested positive for Covid-19, the daytime TV talkshow host revealed on Thursday. “Hi everyone, I want to let you all know that I […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 1 Dec 2020 16.56 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Worth a watch … Diane Keaton and Al Pacino in The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Just when you thought you were out … he pulls you back in. Francis Ford Coppola has […]
10.50 GMT Last modified on Wed 18 Nov 2020 14.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lee paid tribute to his mother for helping him overcome his early dislike of musicals. Photograph: Michael Buckner/Variety/REX/Shutterstock Spike Lee is to direct a musical about the impotence medication Viagra, it has been revealed. According to Deadline, […]
10.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘The biblical flood has been updated: Nature’s judgement rather than God’s is being handed down.’ Photograph: Lavandeira jr/EPA Faith – having it, losing it, changing it – is at the heart of Carys Bray’s third novel. For Chris Abram, being brought up in a religious […]
19.11 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 19.24 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Weeknd. Composite: Guardian/Film Magic The Weeknd has been announced as the headline performer at next year’s Super Bowl. The Grammy award-winning Canadian singer, whose hits include Starboy and Blinding Lights, will take to the stage in […]
08.30 GMT Last modified on Fri 13 Nov 2020 12.17 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A buffet of delights … Bugsnax. Photograph: Young Horses Perhaps best described as a comedy body horror, Bugsnax asks you to solve the mystery surrounding a missing villager on the bizarre island of Snaxburg, and this is […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 9 Nov 2020 08.48 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email These portraits were taken in north London between June and August this year. With school proms cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Alys Tomlinson photographed her subjects, aged between 15 and 19, in the outfits they would […]
18.55 GMT Last modified on Thu 5 Nov 2020 19.05 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Diane Lane and Kevin Costner in Let Him Go. Viewers are in for a wild ride. Photograph: Kimberley French/AP There’s a vital, game-changing scene in robust neo-western thriller Let Him Go that occurs as the last act […]
17.55 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 17.58 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Satan, you say? Yup, this is no ordinary newscast … Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine. Photograph: Lacey Terrell/Netflix How do you turn a handful of lip-sync videos on TikTok into a Netflix special? That’s the challenge faced by […]
10.15 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The 12th-century Santiago de Compostela cathedral in Galicia attracts hundreds of thousands of pilgrims a year. Photograph: Andres Lebedev/Alamy He is a medieval in-joke, a male figure carved in the early 12th century for one of the world’s greatest cathedrals, but no one has known […]
13.05 BST Last modified on Fri 23 Oct 2020 13.32 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Thank you, next president … Ariana Grande in the video for Positions. Photograph: YouTube Ariana Grande Vevo Given the timing of its release – it’s 11 days, in case you need reminding, until America goes to the […]
17.30 BST Last modified on Sat 10 Oct 2020 19.05 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Patty Jenkins: let us hope her prediction doesn’t come true. Photograph: Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb There is a certain advert on television at the moment, maybe more than one, for a make of mobile phone or […]
14.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Cookiee Kawaii, whose music is ‘fluorescent, high-energy and made for partying’. Photograph: Pierre York Before it became an unexpected target of the Trump administration, TikTok was best known for catapulting songs like Cookiee Kawaii’s song Vibe (If I Back It Up) into virality, with more […]
13.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. A surreal private island, inhabited by a bickering community of peculiar elites… Paradise Killer. Photograph: Kaizen Game Works Paradise Killer’s high-fructose world of garish GeoCities colours, arcane jargon and weird concepts is, at first, forcefully bewildering. […]
15.42 BST Last modified on Fri 2 Oct 2020 17.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from South Park. Photograph: Comedy Central The great strength of South Park has always been its insouciant sense of liberation. Because Matt Stone and Trey Parker give themselves permission to do whatever deranged shenanigans they […]