By Sara Bright When the Argentine vice president Victoria Villarruel shared photographs of herself holding hands with Isabel Perón in a Madrid living room in…
By Sara Bright There is a rhythm to all creative work that mirrors the oldest movements in nature. A writer sits down, dives beneath the…
By Sara Bright For six decades, Sir Ian McKellen has inhabited virtually every major male role in the Shakespearean canon – Richard III, King Lear,…
By Tessa Nolan When Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre first read Agatha Christie’s Murder Is Easy, she did not reach for a highlighter or a reference library.…
By Tessa Nolan When this publication surveyed the evolving landscape of Hollywood movies in early 2024, the industry was bracing for disruption. The numbers that…
By Tessa Nolan The film industry entered 2024 wounded. The dual strikes by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA – the former lasting 148…
By Tessa Nolan When David Hockney’s Bigger Christmas Trees illuminated the twin north chimneys of Battersea Power Station on the evening of 1 December 2023,…
By Sara Bright Sara Bright On a gallery floor in Bloomsbury, four tonnes of basalt stand sentinel. Hoa Hakananai’a – the lost or stolen friend,…
By Sara Bright The canvas was never the point. Himani Dubey knew this before she could articulate it. At nine years old, growing up in…
By Sara Bright There is a photograph that Hilary Swank keeps close – not a red-carpet snapshot, not a still from one of her films,…