AltitudeSister Midnight, Santosh and All We Imagine as Light are part of a new wave of female-centred Indian films challenging the roles of traditional Bollywood heroines.They're unpredictable, sometimes humorous, sometimes sexually adventurous, and they're all leading characters, rather than orbiting...
Getty ImagesIn April 1983, a German magazine, Stern, and a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to have made one of the century's most extraordinary historical discoveries. In fact, it was one of the century's most extraordinary hoaxes – and...
Lucasfilm Ltd(Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd)It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Tony Gilroy's Star Wars series takes a key plot from a real robbery masterminded by Stalin in an Imperial Russian city. And...
Caryn James and Hugh MontgomeryYun Sun Park/ BBC(Credit: Yun Sun Park/ BBC)From the new season of the dystopian workplace drama to the UK miniseries that got the world talking and an HBO medical show, we pick the year's greatest programmes...
The National Gallery, London(Credit: The National Gallery, London)As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire.JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire became a national celebrity when...
Serenity Strull/ Getty ImagesBehind the creation of the festival's most iconic and outrageous costumes – from wardrobe malfunctions to insider tips and viral sensations.Lisa recently had a broken corset strap. The K-Pop superstar and White Lotus cast member was waiting...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot's film about two women plotting murder is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired Hitchcock's classic among others.Famous for writing the novel Psycho (1959), the basis for the influential 1960 Alfred...
Getty ImagesBritain in the 1960s was captivated by the daring of the Great Train Robbery, and the sheer scale of the money stolen. But when the accused men stood trial in April 1964, the judge was determined to send a...
A24Alex Garland explored the slide into fractious factionalism in Civil War. Now he turns his gaze towards the ferocity of combat in new film Warfare, which stars Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis and Charles Melton.Joseph Quinn's excruciating howls of pain go...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer CollectionA new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, geographical and industrial change.Modern culture is indebted to photography. "We can't be literate in...
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