Getty ImagesAhead of Kendrick Lamar's headline performance at the Super Bowl half-time show in New Orleans, we explore the rapper's journey from the unforgiving streets of Compton to pop culture ubiquity."I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death?" ponders a...
Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images(Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images)As the Oscars approach, Kate Young – the stylist who dresses Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Johnson, Margot Robbie and others – talks risk taking, intimacy, and why method dressing drives her "nuts".On...
BBCVladimir Syromiatnikov's bold attempts to light up Siberia with a space mirror captured global attention. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an ambitious experiment that was launched on 4 February 1993.It sounds like a scheme a James Bond villain might...
Marvel(Credit: Marvel)From Captain America: Brave New World to Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, these are the films to stream and watch at the cinema this month.Paradise Pictures(Credit: Paradise Pictures)Becoming Led ZeppelinThere are plenty of films about The Beatles, but...
NetflixFrom the return of HBO's holiday-resort satire to a political thriller starring Robert De Niro and the latest violent period drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight.BBC/ Bonnie Productions/ Masterpiece/ Robert Viglasky1. Miss Austen After Jane Austen died, in 1817,...
Netflix(Credit: Netflix)From Netflix mega-hit The Night Agent to Apple TV+'s beloved Slow Horses, tales of secret agents and sinister plots are becoming ever more popular again. That's because they resonate with the times.If you've sat down to watch a new...
NetflixFrench director Jacques Audiard's musical about a Mexican drug lord is a frontrunner for the Academy Awards' big prizes. But its depiction of the country is stoking criticism.Rarely is a film so successful with critics and awards voters, yet so...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)It puzzled many viewers but delighted critics. We explain why the late, great David Lynch's Mulholland Drive topped BBC Culture's poll to find the greatest films of the 21st Century.Cinema in the early years of the 21st Century has...
In a rare interview in 2023, the late Mulholland Drive director told BBC journalist Matthew Sweet about his defining work with composer Angelo Badalamenti.From the darkness of Mulholland Drive to the soaring sweep of Twin Peaks, Angelo Badalamenti created the...
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)With her sultry drawl and feline charisma, the singer and actor oozed sophistication. But Eartha Kitt, who was born on 17 January 1927, had the toughest of childhoods. In History looks at how she transcended her troubled...
