By Sara Bright The story of Britney Spears was supposed to have a clean ending. On 12 November 2021, Judge Brenda Penny terminated the conservatorship…
By Tessa Nolan Two years ago, a forecast for British design in 2024 predicted a future built on eco-friendly materials, smart city technologies, and personalisation.…
By Sara Bright When Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy opened in UK cinemas on 12 February 2025, it did something the romantic comedy genre…
By Sara Bright Twenty-four years after Helen Fielding first adapted her Independent column into a film that redefined the British romantic comedy, the Bridget Jones…
By Alexander Stone A year that opened with Tracy Chapman performing “Fast Car” alongside Luke Combs at the Grammys and closed with Cynthia Erivo and…
By Sara Bright In April, S. Craig Zahler stepped onto a Toronto soundstage to begin shooting The Bookie and the Bruiser, a period mafia thriller…
By Maria Bregman London, April 2026. There is an intriguingly stubborn quality in the loopiness of a wooden strip of sculpture. The strip doubles on…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright In 1913, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell began painting together at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, unaware that their creative…
By Sara Bright In February 2025, inside the wood-panelled chambers of Germany’s Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, presiding judge Thomas Koch delivered a verdict…
By Tessa Nolan When the 68th BFI London Film Festival closed on 20 October 2024, the numbers told a story that even the most optimistic…