By Sara Bright She looked like someone’s grandmother. That was the point. With her cat-eye glasses, her pearls, her carefully curled hair and her perpetual…
By Sara Bright Two years ago, Cecilia Alemani’s Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale made history by featuring a record number of artists…
By Sara Bright Another year, another round of retrospectives on Jean-Claude Van Damme. The internet dutifully assembles its ranked lists – Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Universal Soldier,…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of Hollywood stubbornness that cannot be taught. Val Kilmer had it in abundance. He was the actor…
By Sara Bright There is a peculiar silence at the heart of the global plastic crisis – the silence of 52.1 million metric tonnes of…
By Sara Bright When The Umbrella Academy returned to Netflix on 8 August 2024 for its fourth and final season, it carried the accumulated weight…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of longevity that Hollywood rewards and then punishes – the kind where a woman must constantly justify…
By Sara Bright Something peculiar has happened to the way Britain sleeps. For years, the enemy of rest was obvious and external – a stuffy…
By Sara Bright There is a particular kind of restlessness that afflicts those who have already conquered one world. For Tom Ford, the man who…
By Sara Bright Time travel has long captivated storytellers, offering a lens through which humanity’s deepest fears and wildest ambitions refract. From thwarting fate to…