Is Hollywood too coy for sex comedies?
Jennifer Lawrence's latest film No Hard Feelings is R-rated and sold itself as raunchy – but is actually "tame and inoffensive",...
Why divas deserve to be difficult
(Image credit: David Corio)The trope of the demanding, drama-loving diva is everywhere throughout the history of stage, screen, music and more....
Why the rock-goddess look lives on
(Image credit: Getty Images)From Stevie Nicks to Taylor Swift and "whimsigoth", the boho, rock-goddess aesthetic is an enduring look, writes Clare...
The darker side of Disney songs
How the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired It's a Small World, and a cat tune sung by Peggy Lee had racist undertones...
Europe’s most expensive painting ever?
Left on Gustav Klimt's easel when the artist died in 1918, Lady with a Fan could be the most expensive painting...
The show people really love to hate
The show returns with Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie as a widow and Cynthia Nixon's Miranda in Los Angeles. What is unlikely...
A big disappointment from Wes Anderson
Set in a US desert town, the director's latest features perhaps his starriest cast ever, including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and...
7 cleverly designed emergency homes
(Image credit: Chiara Becattini)On World Refugee Day we look at some of the ingenious dwellings around the world created for displaced...
Gen Z and millennials’ folk obsession
(Image credit: Getty Images)Summer is when folk fans – of all generations – come out in force. But is the new...
The film that Churchill tried to ban
Powell and Pressburger's classic satire about the British military turns 80 this month. Mark Allison reflects on the controversy around its...
