By Sara Bright It’s that time of year again. The days are short, the weather is spiteful, and you’re faced with the annual paralysis of…
By Sara Bright It’s 110 years today since Edith Piaf was born. That number feels wrong, doesn’t it? It feels too neat. Piaf was never…
By Sara Bright It’s hard to believe Milla Jovovich is fifty. Actually, scratch that. It’s impossible. Not because she looks younger (though she does, in…
By Sara Bright “Scooby-Dooby-Doo,” says Daniel Craig, standing over an open coffin in a crypt. It’s a line reading that shouldn’t work. It should be…
By Sara Bright There are few people who can claim to have invented a genre. Rob Reiner, who has reportedly died in Los Angeles at…
By Sara Bright So, Frank Gehry has gone. It feels strange to write those words. Not just because he was ninety-six – and let’s be…
There is a specific, potent brand of quiet panic that Katherine Waterston has entirely mastered. It is not the hysterical, running-down-corridors terror that so often…
On a Tuesday morning in November 2024, I sat in the café of Manchester Art Gallery as a stranger across the table told us she…
By Sara Bright There is a story about JMW Turner that I’ve always loved, mostly because it makes him sound like an absolute nightmare to…
By Sara Bright I have a confession to make. I have a soft spot for films that are, on paper, completely ridiculous. You know the…