Aidan Monaghan(Credit: Aidan Monaghan)Paul Mescal is the "mesmerising centre" of Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and social themes with all-out action spectacle.How can you not love a film that has swords, sandals, sharks in the flooded...
Searchlight Pictures/ Amazon Content Services/ Paramount Pictures/ Mubi/ BBC(Credit: Searchlight Pictures/ Amazon Content Services/ Paramount Pictures/ Mubi/ BBC)These are the films generating the most excitement ahead of awards season, from Demi Moore's body-horror comeback to the return of Ridley Scott's...
Neal Slavin(Credit: Neal Slavin)Celebrating "the joy of being together ", here are eight group portraits – taken by photographer Neal Slavin between 1972 and 1991 – that show both togetherness and peculiarity in US life.It's 50 years since photographer Neal...
Eureka EntertainmentThere's long been a misconception that action films are a masculine domain. But female strength and agility have been showcased on the big screen since the silent era.When you think about action films, the default response is probably to...
Apple TV+Oscar-winner Steve McQueen's latest film offers a new perspective on life in the capital during the devastating 1940-41 Nazi bombing campaign – dispelling myths and clichés."I can assure you, there is no panic, no fear, no despair in London...
NetflixWhen Mats Steen died at the age of 25 in 2014 from a degenerative muscular disease, his parents, Robert and Trude Steen, were surprised to be contacted at their home in Norway by people from all over Europe, mourning his...
BBC(Credit: BBC)Ever since his 1988 debut The Swimming-Pool Library caused a stir, Hollinghurst has captured the hedonism of affluent gay men with both candour and literary elegance."He looks battered, but is smiling, / like an old seaman, nearly at rest....
Christie’s ImagesA new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would "irreversibly alter how London saw itself".Some artists help us perceive the world more precisely. A rare few go further. They look beyond looking. Theirs is...
AlamyStarring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 1984 blockbuster The Terminator has become synonymous with the dangers of superintelligent machines. But it "helps and hinders" our understanding of AI.In one episode of the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, Thomas Middleditch (Richard Hendricks) is explaining...
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)The late muse of director John Waters, Divine delighted in inspiring outrage and disgust on and off screen. However from The Little Mermaid to Chappell Roan, he has left a big impression on popular cultureDivine was a...
