11.40 GMT Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 13.40 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Push and pull … Dave Stewart and Joss Stone. Composite: Getty With UK venues closed because of the pandemic, theatregoers would love to travel forward in time to see a new show. One of the new musicals […]
07.23 GMT Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 19.57 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from The Dilemma. Photograph: Photo Credit: Chuck Hodes/Publicity image from film company When The Dilemma opened in January 2011 it was met with critical contempt and box office apathy. Audiences then and now are befuddled […]
12.37 GMT First published on Wed 3 Mar 2021 00.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 1:24 ‘Vaccine, vaccine’: Dolly Parton adapts Jolene as she receives Covid-19 jab she helped fund – video Dolly Parton burst into song on Tuesday as she received her first dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 10.41 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email One night stand … Simona Brown as Louise in Behind Her Eyes. Photograph: Nick Wall/NETFLIX When Sarah Pinborough’s thriller Behind Her Eyes was published in 2017, even she described it as a “Marmite book”. Her publisher slapped […]
12.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Black Lives Matter supporters at a statue of Confederate leader Robert E Lee in Richmond, Virginia, in January. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images In 2018, two years after the “disastrous” 2016 US presidential election, Eddie Glaude Jr, professor of African American Studies at Princeton, made a […]
11.09 GMT First published on Thu 18 Feb 2021 11.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rihanna has previously apologised for using a song sample with Islamic text in a Fenty fashion show. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA The singer Rihanna has angered the Hindu community with a “disrespectful” Instagram picture in which she wears […]
09.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Bhanu Kapil: ‘Her memorable protest depends upon her ability to overturn poetic expectation.’ Bhanu Kapil, poet and performance artist, recently won the TS Eliot prize for How to Wash a Heart. Kapil, born in Britain to Indian parents, recently returned to the UK after years […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 13.09 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Game developers in the UK tend to be white, middle class university educated men. Photograph: Architect’s Eye/Alamy When the pandemic put the world on pause and we retreated to our living rooms, video games gave us a […]
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 […]
13.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Access all eras … (l-r) Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Jojo. Composite: The Guide In the CD era, a new album could keep pop stars busy for the best part of a half-decade. Beyoncé eked nine singles from 2008’s double-disc opus I Am… Sasha Fierce, […]
16.51 GMT Last modified on Sun 13 Dec 2020 22.12 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email British rapper and film-maker Rapman is said to be working on a science fiction story. Photograph: Ian West/PA Netflix has declared it is on a mission to “be a force for good” by increasing the diversity of […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest Since Diego Maradona’s death in November, countless tributes have been paid to the Argentinian maestro and World Cup winner from fellow icons within the game. His long-time rival Pelé wrote a poignant message on Instagram: “Many people loved to compare us all […]
11.55 GMT Place category winner and overall winner: Theatre, Abkhazia by JonkJonk is a freelance self-taught photographer whose work focuses on humans and their relationship with nature. His images aim to raise awareness of the ecological crisis facing humanity. Fascinated by abandoned places reclaimed by nature, in 2018 he published Naturalia: A Chronicle of Contemporary Ruins, […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 1 Dec 2020 17.21 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email This list is drawn from votes by Guardian music critics – each critic votes for their top 20 albums, with points allocated for each placing, and those points tallied to create this order. Check in every weekday […]
00.09 GMT Last modified on Tue 1 Dec 2020 04.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Helena Bonham Carter’s comments came after criticisms of The Crown’s historical accuracy. Composite: Netflix Helena Bonham Carter has said The Crown has a “moral responsibility” to tell viewers that it is a drama, rather than historical fact, […]
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, […]
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 […]
07.15 GMT First published on Tue 17 Nov 2020 20.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jesy Nelson in London, 8 September 2020. Photograph: Beretta/Sims/Rex/Shutterstock British band Little Mix have announced that Jesy Nelson is taking “extended time off” from the band “for private medical reasons”. The group have asked for privacy and […]
07.32 GMT Last modified on Tue 17 Nov 2020 19.32 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Babetida Sadjo and Patrik Nokkvi Petursson in And Breathe Normally, Ísold Uggadóttir’s little-seen but stunning debut feature film from 2018. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy What happens when one person’s day at work is another’s catastrophe? For the likes […]
11.12 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 11.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘If taking this step means my career is over then so be it’ … Sinéad O’Connor performing in Croatia earlier this year. Photograph: Ivica Drusany/Rex/Shutterstock Sinéad O’Connor has postponed her 2021 tour in order to enter a […]
17.35 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 17.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Derrick May, pictured in 2016. Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Techno DJ and producer Derrick May has been accused of sexual assault by four women, which he denies. In testimonies to DJ Mag, the women, speaking […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It must be so scary having someone like frickin’ Trump or Bolsonaro leading your country’ … Benee. Photograph: Harry Were Twelve thousand fans packed into a venue on a Saturday night, phones aloft, no masks in sight: it looks like a scene from another era, […]
16.53 GMT Last modified on Sat 7 Nov 2020 04.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros Johnny Depp is set to exit the Fantastic Beasts franchise after being asked to resign by Warner Bros. The actor announced the decision in a […]
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 […]
06.21 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 06.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jennifer Connelly and Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream. Photograph: Allstar/Artisan Entertainment/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar I was 17, and just beginning university, when Requiem for a Dream descended on cinemas like an opaque, bruise-blue mist. Notwithstanding the no-under-18s […]
17.39 BST Last modified on Fri 23 Oct 2020 18.21 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email In making American Selfie, Pelosi came to see the cell phone as ironically both the propulsion of American division and a unifying source of concern. Photograph: MTV/Showtime America is, as the refrain goes, divided. This has been […]
15.09 BST Last modified on Mon 19 Oct 2020 15.59 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email My Happy Family: enthralling and, at times, queasy. Photograph: Georgia 100 “Happy is the family with a peaceful mother,” a voice drones from the TV in a cramped, Tbilisi apartment in the opening minutes of Nana Ekvtimishvili […]