To raise money for lymphoedema research, the actor sat before an audience for artist Frances Segelman, who admired her youthful, ‘pixie-like’ face while rendering it in clay It began as a blob: a 12kg lump of clay the size of a watermelon. Three hours later, it had become Judi Dench’s […]
Critics were voicing their opinions long before even an outline of a deal was announced Euphoric recall. Or more likely PTSD. It was like we were in a time warp. Back in the madness of the Brexit years. When otherwise sensible people lost all sense of reason. And when the […]
Cannes film festivalAkira Kurosawa’s downbeat noir High and Low is retooled with Washington on magnificent form as a record producer whose godson is kidnapped by mistake Spike Lee has made a brash, bold, big-city movie with this pulsing New York adventure that doubles as a love letter to NYC’s sports […]
One thing is certain: motion sickness, which happens to one in three people, is not a sign of weak character The other day, I tried to read an email on my phone while in the backseat of a moving car. Almost immediately, I was overwhelmed with nausea. Next to me, […]
This foodie tour is a love fest between everyone he meets – and everything he eats. It would be perfect television … if only the script weren’t so laughably repetitious In my next life I am definitely coming back as Stanley Tucci. Or Francesco da Mosto (that Venetian count with […]
A final red card and parting of ways for broadcaster’s star performer after several warnings and uneasy relationship For a footballer who went through an entire career without receiving a yellow card, it may seem like an unlikely end. On Sunday night, Gary Lineker will be dispatched from the BBC’s […]
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera are essentially wingmen to Kate Winslet’s daughter, making a breakthrough big screen turn in Anderson’s enjoyable yet airless ensemble romp Wes Anderson has contrived another of his elegant, eccentric, rectilinear comedies; as ever, he is vulnerable to the charge of making films that stylistically […]
It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift the lid on its chaotic creation Twenty years ago this month we were plunged straight into the middle of […]
Fed up with being inside all day? Missing fresh air and nature? Five people who ditched their desks reveal the truth about their new lives Steve Kell, 59, countryside ranger, Warwickshire Country Parks I always loved being in nature. But I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was […]
It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them A recent piece of research commissioned by Channel 4 suggested that more than half of people aged between 13 and 27 would prefer the UK to be an authoritarian dictatorship. The results shocked a lot […]