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…
By Sara Bright There is a statistic in cinema that sounds like a pub quiz lie, except it is verifiably true. John Cazale appeared in…
By Sara Bright Few luxury brands carry a name that doubles as a verb. To say you have lost a Choo – that breathless, almost…
By Sara Bright In 1988, Jean-Claude Van Damme performed a slow-motion split between two moving trucks in Bloodsport. It became the defining image of 1990s…