By Sara Bright In a breakthrough merging artificial intelligence with classical scholarship, researchers have decoded the word “διατροπή” (disgust) from a 2,000-year-old scroll carbonised by…
By Sara Bright When Jeff Bezos asked followers “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” hours after Amazon MGM sealed its deal with Eon Productions,…
By Sara Bright Demi Moore’s Golden Globe win for The Substance sent shockwaves through Hollywood. A grotesque, darkly comic body horror about ageing and beauty,…
By Sara Bright Over 400 playwrights, poets, and performers have ignited a cultural revolt. In an open letter to the National Endowment for the Arts,…
By Sara Bright For six days in February 2025, the Vatican performed a miracle of curation: Raphael’s fabled tapestries, unseen in their intended setting for…
By Sara Bright Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), remains an enigma wrapped in Venetian masks and Freudian dread. Released months after the…
By Sara Bright As the film world braces for the Academy Awards, the BAFTAs’ role as a bellwether has never been murkier. Typically, Britain’s glittering…
By Sara Bright In recent years, Brazilian cinema has carved a unique space on the global stage, blending poignant storytelling with unflinching social commentary. Among…
By Sara Bright For centuries, literature has been cleaved into opposing realms: the sacred and the profane, the profound and the pedestrian. This schism, perpetuated…
By Sara Bright In a year where streaming platforms straddle art and algorithm, 2024’s cinematic offerings oscillate between visceral mastery and synthetic mediocrity. From blood-soaked…