Her married status didn't stop brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici fighting over her affections and she was muse to many artists, including Sandro Botticelli. Some even think she was the inspiration for Venus in The Birth of...
Curtis saw his mission as "documenting what he thought of as 'a dying race'," Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos "signs of modernity" such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that Indigenous people remain stopped...
The Shakespeare drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley has a stellar cast but is "exploitative" and lacks subtlety – "it tugs the heartstrings and targets the tear ducts with absolute ruthlessness".There's no doubt that, in many people's eyes, Hamnet...
The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the UK's Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as "the kind of lunatic scheme that appeals to Americans". Still, as...
Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the "soul-crushing" loss of their child. It's a powerful story that fills in many blanks.In Hamnet – Maggie O'Farrell's eloquent 2020 novel and the deeply...
Grande really gets her moments to shine in this instalment and makes the most of them. She was always ideal in the role, giving Glinda just the right little giggle and hair flip. She has a stronger narrative arc here...
Warner Bros Pictures(Credit: Warner Bros Pictures)One Battle After AnotherHow could you not love a film that has Leonardo DiCaprio running around in a bathrobe, hilariously trying to remember the password that would allow a revolutionary group to save his kidnapped...
And while air pumps had been devised way back in 1650, the spirit of sharing scientific truths democratically was modern. "The dissemination of knowledge," Riding tells the BBC, "was a new thing to the 18th Century."Depictions of modern lifeAnd this...
Getty ImagesGarfield's inauguration ceremony in March 1881; he set out as President with an ambitious agenda (Credit: Getty Images)Makowsky's crucial task was to sift through Millard's detailed dive into the history of the assassination and construct a narrative appealing to...
This intriguing series from Vince Gilligan stars Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn as a cynical woman living in a world where people are suddenly happy all the time. The result is George Orwell meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.If a...
