Film

How a small group of Amazon workers took on big business and challenged traditional unions | Kenan Malik

‘The union wants to protect workers. The employer wants to protect workers. How do I choose between them?” So asks one young worker in Union, a documentary about the...

Ken Burns Does Da Vinci

In a previous interview with Ken Burns, the director told me, “If I was given 1,000 years, I...

Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

Young people from working-class backgrounds are being “blocked” from entering the creative industries, which remain “elitist” and inaccessible,...

The Spoils director says film forces art world to confront ‘loaded issue’ of restitution

From the Benin bronzes to the Parthenon marbles, debates over the restitution of cultural artefacts are now a...

Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are latest to join Christopher Nolan’s new film

Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are set to star in Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated next movie.According to Deadline, the two...

A Photographer’s Legacy, Airbrushed

It’s surprising that it took this long to give Lee Miller the Hollywood treatment. A former model and eventual frontline World War II photographer,...

‘Trailblazing’ TV, film and stage actor Cleo Sylvestre dies aged 79

The “trailblazing” actor Cleo Sylvestre has died aged 79, her agent has confirmed.Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, had been a feature of film,...

‘Like a gig with your favourite 90s artists’: KT Tunstall composes Clueless musical

Mean Girls has become a West End hit, Heathers is on tour and now Clueless is becoming a high-school musical, too. The 1995 film...

Brat summer to goth winter: Beetlejuice revival prompts sartorial spookiness

As Charli xcx declared last week, brat summer is officially over. It is being exorcised by a new mood more befitting of the UK’s...

Nicole Kidman says her ‘heart is broken’ after death of mother Janelle

Nicole Kidman has announced the death of her mother, Janelle, as the Oscar-winner was named best actress at the 2024 Venice film festival on...

No Place for Sissies

Old age, said Bette Davis, is no place for sissies. Neither, she might have added, is the Hudson Valley in winter. “I Like it...