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…
By Sara Bright January is traditionally television’s dumping ground – the month networks schedule their casualties. But as we noted in our most anticipated premieres…
By Sara Bright There is a moment in Jamie Allan’s Amaze where the magician holds up his childhood Fisher-Price magic kit – a battered plastic…
By Sara Bright In the sprawling, often transactional landscape of Hollywood friendships, certain pairings defy every reasonable expectation. A heavy-metal comedian with a YouTube channel…
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 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,…