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…
By Maria Bregman, writer and art critic I was sitting in a screening room in Soho on Monday – one of those plush, underground ones…
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…
The public appetite for watching creative minds unravel is as old as art itself – and it shows no sign of fading. From the mythology…
When the final credits rolled on the fifth season of Stranger Things on the 31st of December 2025, it did not merely mark the conclusion…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Mads Mikkelsen is sixty. I had to read that twice when the press release landed on my…
By Sara Bright Peta Wilson is 55. You read a name like that, and for a certain generation, it’s a jolt. A sudden, sharp memory…
By Sara Bright The pictures are out. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande on the red carpet for the premiere of Wicked: For Good. The big finale.…
By Maria Bregman The Oscar conversation has started. The lists are out. The long, slow, slightly undignified parade of speculation and prediction that takes us…
So, the November lists are out. The usual monthly ritual of looking at what’s coming to the cinema, and trying to work out what, if…