By Sara BrightFive years after Parasite’s unprecedented Oscar sweep, Bong Joon-ho re-emerges not with another class-warfare thriller, but a $80 million sci-fi gambit. Mickey 17,…
By Alexander Stone In the gilded arenas of 1990s tennis, where tradition dictated white attire and stoic decorum, Andre Agassi blazed a trail of neon…
By Katerina Karp, artist and art-critic “What is the most effective punishment for a crime?” Crime and punishment – two concepts deeply intertwined, yet curiously…
By Sara BrightFrancis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather didn’t just redefine cinema – it navigated a perilous dance with the very underworld it depicted. Behind the…
By Sara Bright In the clamorous streets of Tanta, an industrial city north of Cairo, a stooped figure in a white coat became legend. Dr.…
The rose tattoo is the single most enduring botanical motif in the history of body art. From the bold flash sheets of Norman “Sailor Jerry”…
By Sara Bright Felix Umarov’s The Prophet: The Story of Alexander Pushkin arrives in cinemas as a flamboyant, if flawed, attempt to recast Russia’s literary titan into…
By Sara Bright A man’s frenzied leap onto the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica – toppling 19th-century candelabra worth €30,000 – has thrust the…
By Sara Bright Beneath the cerulean gloom of Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901), a spectral figure has stirred. For over a…
By Sara Bright In an era where superhero fatigue looms like a spectre over Hollywood, Marvel Studios is betting big on reinvention. Captain America: New…