AlamyFirst broadcast 30 years ago this week, the hugely popular show Friends became much more than a sitcom – it brought a new way of living into the mainstream.Barely three minutes into the pilot episode of Friends (The One Where...
Emmanuel Lafont(Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)In the 1960s, Barbara Hulanicki disrupted the stuffy, class-ridden view of fashion, and the inclusive Biba lifestyle changed everything. She talks to the BBC about her extraordinary career."Biba attracted troublemakers or people who liked to make trouble,"...
BBC/ Peacock/ Universal Pictures/ HBO(Credit: BBC/ Peacock/ Universal Pictures/ HBO)From imagined futures to mid-life stories and the return of the erotic – here are our recommendations for the best offerings of the season in books, film, TV shows and more.Pantheon/...
Vestiaire's Samina Virk on the rise of 'archival fashion' and 'trophy vintage' Source link...
AlamyClint Eastwood was catapulted to film stardom when he played a brooding gunslinger in Sergio Leone's first Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars. In a 1977 interview with the BBC, the Italian director confessed that he "really wanted" another actor...
Prime VideoA new documentary series premiering at TIFF explores the legacy of the group adored by millions of Canadians – but largely unknown to the rest of the world.Canada isn't immune to creating musical megastars, from Leonard Cohen and Shania...
Yannis Drakoulidis(Credit: Yannis Drakoulidis)Luca Guadagnino's latest film sees the James Bond star on exceptional form as a dissolute writer into casual sex and strong liquor. He's easily the best thing about it.When Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name came...
AGC StudiosJude Law plays an FBI agent on the trail of Nicholas Hoult's criminal in another "intense" film about murderers from Macbeth and Nitram director, Justin Kurzel.You know where you are with Justin Kurzel. Aside from one Shakespeare adaptation (Macbeth)...
Warner BrosArriving 36 years on, this follow-up to the director's classic supernatural comedy is a gleefully zany farce packed with knock-out punchlines and great practical effects.Betelgeuse is back from the dead. Or rather, Betelgeuse is still dead, but he's back,...
In his 1993 book Pleasant the Scholar’s Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State, Maurice Goldring emphasised the role of intellectuals in shaping Irish cultural nationalism. He distinguished between revolts and revolutions. Without some articulation of ideas...
