Category: Arts
‘Love exists beyond death’: Andrew Scott on All of Us Strangers – and whether his character was dead
How does it feel to have been the star of the Guardian’s film of the year?You know what, it’s really wonderful. Thank you so much [more…]
Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 1 – All of Us Strangers
Underneath the radical swoon of Andrew Haigh’s ground-shifting gay drama Weekend was a swell of sadness. Clearer in the film’s more universal right-people-wrong-time romance but [more…]
Aliens, Gollum and talking raccoons: when will the Oscars finally reward mo-cap acting?
Picture the future: it’s the Oscars 2034, and the best actor prizes are no longer split into male and female categories. Instead, there is an [more…]
Bob ‘Slim’ Dunlap, guitarist in the Replacements, dies at 73
Bob “Slim” Dunlap, who replaced Bob Stinson on guitar in cult Minneapolis band the Replacements, has died at 73. In 2012, Dunlap suffered a stroke. [more…]
‘I don’t deal in nonsense’: Tulisa on ‘revenge porn’, tabloid stings, celibacy, success and survival
Why does anyone go on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!? Sometimes there’s an obvious reputation-washing agenda, which annoyingly seems to work [more…]
The Christmas that went wrong: I was hungover – so I bought everyone in my family a Moby CD
When I left the north of Ireland for the University of Glasgow 20 years ago, I threw myself into the city’s hard‑partying lifestyle with all the vigour [more…]
Cara Delevingne plays Elton John for Step Into Christmas video remake
The actor and model Cara Delevingne plays Sir Elton John in a new video for his song Step Into Christmas. In the video, a behind-the-scenes [more…]
Move over, Mariah! The cheesiest, weepiest, silliest, booziest European Christmas bangers
Step inside a shopping centre in Catalonia or walk around a Christmas market in the Ruhr valley right now and you’ll find it impossible to [more…]
Amazon push may help Tom Grennan beat Wham! to UK Christmas No 1
Alexa, can you make a Christmas No 1? As this year’s battle for the most played and bought track of the festive season reaches its [more…]
Can’t-do attitude: why the real horror of Nightbitch is weaponised incompetence
Nightbitch is not the best film of the year. But if it becomes a cult classic, that will primarily be down to its perfect portrayal [more…]
