Category: Culture & Humanities
My favourite film aged 12: Speed
Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, we get back on the bus for an audaciously over-the-top thrill ride with Keanu Reeves and Sandra BullockThere was a heady point during the mid 1990s, when I was in my early teens, …
My streaming gem: why you should watch Images
The latest in our series of writers highlighting underappreciated films sees a recommendation for Robert Altman’s dreamlike 70s horror When he completed Images, in 1971, Robert Altman thought to himself: “Everyone is just going to flip over this film. …
Stayin’ alive! How music has fought pandemics for 2,700 years
People singing from balconies during coronavirus lockdown are part of a long tradition of using music to fight fear, stretching back through the Black Death to the 7th century BCDisease is on the prowl. As residents hide behind locked doors, barely a f…
Shania Twain and Her Horse Duet on ACM Presents: Our Country
Shania brings the star power. Her horse brings the eating-a-guitar power.
Olivier awards greatest moments – in pictures
The Guardian photographer David Levene takes a look back at London’s biggest stage night of the year. The 2020 awards ceremony, due to be held on April 5 at the Royal Albert Hall, is no longer going ahead due to the coronavirus. The winners will now be…
The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman review – punk’s king of chaos
Huckster, visionary – or a bit of both? An exhaustive new biography chases down the elusive punk promoter Writing about Malcolm McLaren in 1978, his friend from art school Fred Vermorel described him as having “the vision of an artist, the heart of an …
John Cena Wrestled a Puppet at WrestleMania This Year… and Lost
To be fair, it was a very disturbing puppet.
Rob Gronkowski Hosts, Wins WrestleMania 24/7 Championship
You know, more hosts should be allowed to win their respective gigs.
Duffy Recounts Being Drugged and Sexually Assaulted During Four-Week Abduction
“**** stripped me of my human rights, to experience a life with autonomy from fear.”
7 Big Questions About This Week’s Westworld
What about the final pearl? How will William escape? And how does this change what we saw in last season’s epilogue?