By Tessa Nolan When Kenneth Branagh strode onto the stage of Wyndham’s Theatre on 21 October 2023, dressed in animal skins and wielding a dagger…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with relentless excellence. Not the burnout of overwork, but the fatigue of watching…
The Book of Elsewhere: How Keanu Reeves and China Miéville Turned a Comic Book Into a Literary Event
By Tessa Nolan When Keanu Reeves announced on Good Morning America in January 2024 that he was co-authoring a novel with China Miéville, the literary…
By Sara Bright When the lights dimmed inside All is Joy Studios on Dean Street in Soho last year, what followed was not a conventional…
By Tessa Nolan Kathryn Bigelow does not think of herself as a filmmaker who happens to be a woman. She has always resisted that formulation,…
By Tessa Nolan When the first set photographs of Jude Law as Vladimir Putin emerged from the cobbled streets of Riga in March 2025, the…
By Sara Bright You step off the vaporetto at the Giardini and the immediate physical sensation. is a familiar, exhausting density. This is the art…
By Sara Bright When The Wizard of the Kremlin received a ten-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 2025, the audience…
By Sara Bright Jonathan Wateridge has, in 2026, done what most painters only dream of: he has moved from one of the world’s most prestigious…
By Sara Bright Life moves pretty fast. So does cultural memory – until something stops you in your tracks. In 2026, the past is John…