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…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 February 2024, during Super Bowl LVIII, Beyoncé stepped out of a Verizon commercial alongside Tony Hale and surprise-released two singles…
By Anne Fry On the highways connecting Taipei to Kaohsiung, glass booths glow in fluorescent pink and red, their neon signs buzzing against the humid…