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 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 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 Sara Bright There is a photograph Debra Winger keeps from the Sahara. She stands at the edge of the dunes in Tuareg robes, facing…
By Sara Bright When Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Barbican Centre on 3 March 1982, the building was already thirteen years ahead of its…
By Sara Bright A naked man dangles from a windowsill five metres above Frogmore Street, one hand clutching the ledge, the other covering his modesty.…
By Sara Bright When Aviva Studios threw open its doors in October 2023, the sceptics had a ready-made narrative: another flagship cultural building that would…
By Sara Bright When the first audiences stepped through the undercroft entrance of Aviva Studios on Water Street in October 2023, they walked past a…