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 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,…
By Sara Bright When Chris Columbus first put pen to paper in a cramped New York apartment in 1982, he was not dreaming up a…
By Sara Bright When Christopher Nolan revealed in May that his forthcoming The Odyssey – the first feature film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, budgeted…
By Sara Bright In England, the grammar school has long occupied a peculiar position in the national imagination – simultaneously a symbol of opportunity and…
By Sara Bright When Nigel Farage described the abolition of grammar schools in the 1960s and 1970s as an “absolute wanton act of vandalism,” he…
By Sara Bright — title: “The Godfather Paradox: How Real Mafia Bosses Became Cinema’s Most Dangerous Collaborators” slug: “godfather-paradox-mafia-collaboration” byline: “Sara Bright” section: “Film” meta_description:…
By Sara Bright Nine months have passed since Giorgio Armani left the world he so meticulously dressed. The Italian fashion house he built from nothing…