At the turn of the 20th century, Laikipia in Kenya saw an influx of British settlers who were allowed to claim ownership of uninhabited and
Category: Films
Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people | Veronica Esposito
Let’s admit it: cisgender people are really curious about us trans women. They want to know things such as: what’s it like to have a
‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights
When Andrea Arnold imagined the opening shots of her film of Wuthering Heights, she saw heavy mists swirling around the outline of a misshapen creature
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’
The actor Elizabeth Olsen and I are in a London hotel, staring down at her dinner. She lifts the lid from one plate: a bowl
Sunday with Will Poulter: ‘I leave the cooking to my mum, but we’ll do the dishes’
Sunday grub? Sunday lunch with my family has been the most important moment in the weekly calendar for as long as I can remember. It’s
Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school
RaMell Ross’s transcendentally moving and frightening film, adapted from the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead, runs at least initially on a kind of cognitive dissonance.
Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?
For better and for worse, The Substance, the new, buzzy body horror film, sends up oppressive beauty standards with the subtlety of a blowtorch. The
Maggie Smith found a clarity on stage that in some ways surpassed her screen work
Maggie Smith was an actor of legendary wit and style who, even off stage, seemed to have the capacity to deliver a one-line zinger. There’s
Effortless skill, mixed salads and a certain impatience with life: Michael Palin remembers Maggie Smith
To work with Maggie Smith, as I did in The Missionary and A Private Function, was to be in the presence of pure acting gold.
‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner
Maggie Smith seemed in her performances to care nothing about being loved, but she was as widely adored as an actor can be. The two