World » 4 days ago
Loyalists worry that the PM displays little of the engagement and dynamism required. Five years on, neither they nor voters really know him or his planUpsetting backbench MPs is an occupational hazard for prime ministers. Government is an endless sequence of messy comprom...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Cinema’s obsession with rock stars’ lives has not hitherto found much time for Black women. That tune looks set to changeHollywood’s musical biopic fever is, once again, in full swing. Buzz has never been louder for Sam Mendes’s ambitious ...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
A ‘derivative’ of Quentin Tarantino’s original, rather than a sequel, will be produced by Netflix, and continues Pitt’s relationship with the director of Seven and Fight ClubBrad Pitt is to star in a follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But, hav...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Star of films such as Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever whose acting could combine playfulness and intensityTemperamental on-set behaviour by successful actors is common, but rarely made public. So it takes a particular type of performer, or one with poor PR defences,...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Toby Jones plays the spaniel-eyed schoolmaster setting Harry Lawtey’s needy young pupil on course for haughty international stardomThe career of Richard Burton seemed mythic at the time, and more so in retrospect. In Pedro Almodóvar’s latest movie ...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Documentary follows the baloeiros, who illegally build and release huge decorated balloons in cities, from where they can travel hundreds of milesAn intriguing film set in Brazil, first shown last year at the CPH:DOX documentary festival in Copenhagen...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Ruaridh Mollica is very good as Max, a freelance writer with a secret app life in prostitution, but Mikko Mäkelä’s film is not clear enough about his motivationsSex work as a window into human nature is a longstanding theme in cinema, from Kenji Mizoguchi’s Street of Sham...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Ahead of her performance at Glastonbury, the activist singer-songwriter will take on questions about wearing Prince out and rejecting the major label systemAni DiFranco may be the only musician ever to have tired Prince into submission. When they jammed in 1999, he and hi...
Lifestyle » 4 days ago
It’s impossible to dislike Joe Swash. But his utterly chaotic approach to looking after five kids turns this reality show into a nightmarishly stressful watchOh man. I really thought this was going to be the one. I thought Stacey & Joe, the new reality show starri...
Lifestyle » 4 days ago
Actor hopes Owain and Henry, one of two new productions by the Welsh National Theatre, will be a ‘defining moment’He has been celebrated for playing the roles of a British prime minister and an English king but the Welsh actor ...