Category: Arts
‘I’ve had a wild, chaotic, beautiful life’: Rebecca Hall on race, regrets and learning to be herself
We all thought that we knew Rebecca Hall – English rose, on stage since childhood, daughter of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s founder Sir Peter Hall, [more…]
Waxahatchee: ‘Charli XCX is a genius. She’s the coolest person ever’
You have a identical twin. Do you have any spooky twin stories? Honestly, not really. We’re deeply intuitive about each other. We are mirror twins, [more…]
Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet The Way Out of Easy review – a captivating, unhurried ebb and flow
From 2016 until it closed in late 2023, jazz guitarist Jeff Parker held a weekly residency at Los Angeles venue ETA. Over that time he [more…]
Saoirse Ronan ‘absolutely right’ about women’s safety fears, says Gladiator combat trainer
He has trained would-be assassins and marshalled invading hordes, Napoleonic forces and Roman regiments, but movie military adviser Paul Biddiss found himself in the midst [more…]
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA
It’s been quite a year for thrillingly inventive music documentaries. First there was Gary Hustwit’s Eno, a groundbreaking portrait of the pioneering musician, producer and [more…]
Amyl and the Sniffers review – nonstop fireworks
Part of the appeal of the Roundhouse, a famous north London venue, is that if a gig ever becomes boring, you can gaze at its [more…]
When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in charge’
If we set aside the more glaring historical inaccuracies in the trailers for the long-awaited Gladiator sequel – the guy riding a rhinoceros for example [more…]
Streaming: Thelma and the best films about old-age rebellion
June Squibb’s career has run on a different timeline to that of most movie stars: she made her film debut, in Woody Allen’s Alice, at [more…]
Gladiator II: battles, baboons, Mescal and Denzel – discuss with spoilers
Twenty-four years on and Ridley Scott’s belated follow-up to his biggest critical success is finally on cinema screens. How does it compare to the first [more…]
Boybands Forever: this denim-packed history of 90s British pop is a magical piece of TV
I always secretly thought I was evil enough to compile a boyband. How hard can it be, really? You get four but ideally five working-class [more…]
