Category : Culture

The Railway Children Return review – family classic sequel stays on track

Plot riffs on the original story include a black US serviceman on the lam in this earnest but likable homage to the beloved 1970 kids’ adventureJenny Agutter became a British cinema hall-of-famer as Roberta, or Bobbie, in the much-loved 1970 family c...

Gwenno: Tresor review – more alluring Cornish psych-pop

(Heavenly)The Welsh sound artist, performing almost entirely in Cornish, explores nature and motherhood on her ambitious third albumRaised by a Welsh activist mother and a Cornish poet father, Gwenno Mererid Saunders has become a one-woman Celtic rev...

Amber Heard’s attorneys request defamation verdict be tossed

Actor says in 43-page memorandum that the jury’s verdict should be set aside on the grounds that it was unsupported by evidenceAttorneys for actor Amber Heard have requested that the judgment against her in the dueling defamation case with ex-husband...

Peter Brook – a life in pictures

The groundbreaking British theatre director, whose huge influence reached around the world, has died at the age of 97 Continue reading...

JMW Turner and sex: exhibition offers insight into private life of artist

Rarely seen erotic drawings offer glimpse into the painter’s private life and relationship with womenJMW Turner is revered as a genius landscape painter, the king of the turbulent maritime scene, but much less is known about the more private side of...

Alcina review – Handel’s enchanting opera glitters with retro glamour

Glyndebourne, SussexJane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolisTheatrical illusion and offstage reality...

In the Black Fantastic review – spectacular from first to last

Hayward Gallery, LondonWild imagination unites 11 artists from the African diaspora, including Nick Cave and Kara Walker, as they address racial injustice through myth and fantasy in this never less than magnificent showAn extraordinary sight opens t...

Peter Brook’s legacy is everywhere in today’s theatre

Restlessly creative, the great director – who has died aged 97 – had an unparalleled ability to conjure a gleaming theatrical imagePeter Brook: the great seeker of British theatreNever meet your heroes, the saying goes. When I first encountered Peter...

Wayfinder review – Larry Achiampong’s poetic lockdown odyssey

A young wanderer encounters social injustice in the artist’s melancholy, sometimes magical feature set in a near-future EnglandCreated during lockdown, the latest work from British-Ghanaian artist and film-maker Larry Achiampong is a poetic odyssey,...

The Card review – cheeky chappy comes up trumps in a twisty tale of social mobility

Fenton Town Hall, Stoke-on-TrentWily upstart Denry Machin is played with picaresque charm in a witty adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s novel, empowered by the big, vivid sound of a brass bandDownstairs, in Fenton Town Hall’s cute cafe, local theatregoer...

Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre

The esteemed British director inspired each new generation of theatre creatives to be more daring and experimentalPeter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97The two key British theatre directors of the middle decades of the 20th century...

Tigers review – gripping true-life tale of a troubled Swedish football prodigy

Erik Enge excels as Inter Milan wunderkind Martin Bengtsson in Ronnie Sandahl’s impressively knotty look at the psychology of top-tier sportA Swedish teenage football prodigy who is acquired by a top Italian team finds that the high price tag placed...

Actor David Earl: ‘Sex scenes? I’d rather go back to gardening’

The comedian on his Sundance hit film about a homemade robot, why Ricky Gervais persuaded him to give up his day job, and being a hopeless romanticThe actor, comedian and former gardener David Earl, 48, got his breakthrough by creating standup charac...

Dr Zhivago’s heroine takes centre stage in plagiarism row

Courtroom battle looms as author argues her book revealing inspiration for character became basis of an American novelTwo authors are to go head to head in the high court in London this week in a bitter literary plagiarism row that revolves around th...

Adele tells of guilt over cancelled Las Vegas shows, break with her father and being a ‘sad person’

Singer tells BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs she became a ‘shell’ after deciding the residency could not go aheadAdele has spoken of her grief and guilt over the loss of her high-profile Las Vegas residency, which she cancelled at the last minute in...