Category: Arts
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes
‘My childhood! My mother! I want them back!” With this howl of anguish, young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, sets the tone of vengeful rage [more…]
If review – John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy
If, the new kids comedy from John Krasinski, has all the elements of a family friendly hit: a healthy dose of sentimentality, a heavy emphasis [more…]
Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
The cruel and unwelcoming fashion magazine editor at the icy heart of 2006 comedy hit The Devil Wears Prada may not strike many viewers as [more…]
Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy
Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks – [more…]
‘I am gross, animal and carnal’: Luna Carmoon on her disturbing, stinky-scented new film
To reach Luna Carmoon, who is at the other end of a banquet table tucking into her vegetable pie, I have to shuffle sideways along [more…]
From Megadeth to Japanese make-up tutorials: the bizarre life of guitarist Marty Friedman
It’s one of the most perplexing questions in heavy metal history: how does a bullet-wearing guitarist for Megadeth end up critiquing beauty products on Japanese [more…]
Co-op Live finally hosts first gig after spate of cancellations
It has been billed by its American owners as the greatest music venue ever built: a state-of-the art arena to put Manchester back on the [more…]
More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine
More than 100 acts have pulled out of the Great Escape music festival in Brighton as part of a Palestine-related campaign against the event sponsor [more…]
The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives
Cannes can always do worse than choose a comedy for its opening gala, and the festival is off to an amiable, entertaining start. Quentin Dupieux [more…]
Greta Gerwig: ‘The number of female directors has gotten better. We’re not done yet’
The reviews were gushing on the first day of the 77th Cannes film festival, as Barbie director Greta Gerwig took up her duties as this [more…]