This year’s biggest TV disaster
The co-creation of music superstar Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, the series seemed to have everything...
Hit Man is full of ‘humanity and charm’
Richard Linklater's New Orleans crime yarn starring Glen Powell is "delightful" and "genuinely fun", writes Nicholas Barber from the Venice Film...
The Substance is ‘magnificently tasteless’ horror
'Outrageous' film starring Demi Moore is 'gleefully grisly'
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The masterpieces that helped Henry VIII pick wives
By Deborah Nicholls-LeeFeatures correspondentHans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Anne of ClevesHans Holbein the Younger acted as a matchmaker to Henry...
Oscars 2024: Where to see the best actors next
From Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone to Robert Downey Jr
The smutty medieval tales that broke sexual taboos
Getty ImagesWhen the Covid-19 own pandemic struck four years ago, Boccaccio's joyful plague text found itself in vogue, with booksellers running...
Was Josephine Napoleon’s great love?
By Katherine AstburyFeatures correspondentApple TV+Vanessa Kirby and Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon (Credit: Apple TV+)Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby star in Ridley...
New Spider-Verse is a ‘disappointment’
The sequel to the brilliant Into the Spider-Verse 'feels frantically busy and wheel-spinningly slow at the same time', writes Nicholas Barber....
‘The role required me to cry, all day long’
Getty ImagesUS actress Shelley Duvall spoke to the BBC in 1980, just after The Shining was released. In this clip, she...
