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 […]
11.00 BST Last modified on Fri 2 Oct 2020 13.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dreamlike collage …. Dick Johnson Is Dead Photograph: NETFLIX Kirsten Johnson is the cinematographer and film-maker who in 2016 created, or curated, Cameraperson, an arresting, dreamlike collage of material that she had shot over years, combined with […]
14.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The state of being a woman is simply to provide and provide. Photograph: Lloyd Vas/Alamy Stock Photo This book doesn’t let up. What starts as a series of anecdotes about male privilege and how it motivates men to act in violent ways develops into a […]
20.00 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 20.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I just wrapped a movie with J-Lo. Whaaaaat?’ … Michelle Buteau. Photograph: Marcus Price/Netflix Welcome to Buteaupia, Michelle Buteau’s Netflix special is called – and Buteaupia is where we find the 43-year-old, two decades into her standup […]
10.18 BST Last modified on Mon 28 Sep 2020 10.19 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mariah Carey in 2017. Photograph: PA With her immaculate, glamorous image, Mariah Carey is the last person you’d expect to don a plaid shirt, ripped denim and mope over a squall of electric guitars. But the R&B […]
15.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Public Enemy. Yes, Chuck D has earned the right to make as much average music as he wants. What’s dispiriting is that the genius who devised the deathless definition of rap as the black CNN remains so stuck on the History channel. This is an […]
11.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Brisk, first-rate stuff, and not especially radical’: Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Photograph: Studio Canal Capital in the Twenty-First Century is not so much a critique of capitalism as a critique of its corruption. In New Zealand film-maker Justin Pemberton’s documentary, French economist Thomas Piketty’s […]
08.06 BST Last modified on Mon 21 Sep 2020 08.08 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Madeline Brewer in Cam, one of Netflix’s most underrated offerings. Photograph: Netflix When I stumbled across 2018 psychological thriller Cam on Netflix this year, I braced myself for a tacky technological horror film on the perils of […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email We are rooting for them throughout … Photograph: Folio Images/Alamy Stock Photo The timing of Nick Hornby’s ninth novel is possibly a little unfortunate. Not only was it written before the Black Lives Matter movement intensified discussions on cultural appropriation but, four years after the […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I was still in my seat, completely taken in’: the reader, like Vitória, is transported. Photograph: Gregg Vignal / Alamy/Alamy “I wanted to write about paintings, but I wasn’t seen as someone who could say something interesting about art” – thus we are introduced to […]