By Tessa Nolan When the Cannes Film Festival updated its official charter in May 2025 – one day before the 78th edition was due to…
By Tessa Nolan The number that matters is 272.7. That is, in millions of US dollars, the worldwide box-office gross of Backrooms as of mid-June…
By Tessa Nolan When Taylor Swift opened The Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on 17 March 2023, few could have predicted…
By Tessa Nolan Twenty years after a sixteen-year-old Taylor Swift released her debut single “Tim McGraw” to country radio, she has returned to the format…
By Tessa Nolan The question lands on every visitor’s lips as they emerge from Leicester Square station, programme leaflets fanned out in both hands: what…
By Tessa Nolan In January 2024, a small Tokyo studio called Pocketpair released an unfinished game about catching cute creatures and making them work in…
By Tessa Nolan The candy-pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel – spanning over three metres in width and used to capture the building’s façade…
By Tessa Nolan In September 1858, a 13-part essay series began appearing in the pages of the New York Atlas, a Sunday broadsheet. It ran…
By Tessa Nolan When Michael Blakemore collected his second Tony Award on the same evening in June 2000 – becoming the only person in history…
By Tessa Nolan The year 2024 was supposed to be a write-off. After the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes shuttered writers’ rooms from May through…