BBC/ Peacock/ Universal Pictures/ HBO(Credit: BBC/ Peacock/ Universal Pictures/ HBO)From imagined futures to midlife stories and the return of the erotic – here are our recommendations for the best offerings of the season in books, film, TV shows and more.Pantheon/...
Serenity Strull/ Getty Images(Credit: Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)As London fashion week kicks off, 'trophy vintage' is increasingly sought after. Samina Virk, US CEO of fashion resale site Vestiaire Collective, on how pre-loved has become a fashion go-to – even for...
Emmanuel Lafont/.Getty Images(Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/.Getty Images)In 1999, this unlikely rom-com set at a conversion therapy camp and starring Natasha Lyonne was hated by critics. But it's since been recognised as both groundbreaking and hilarious.Jamie Babbit's audacious feature debut But I'm...
HBOAs the final season of the HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels begins this week, why has the show not received the plaudits – and the viewership – it deserves?Few novels have inspired as much devotion in recent years...
AlamyClint Eastwood was catapulted to film stardom when he played a brooding gunslinger in Sergio Leone's first Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars. In a 1977 interview with the BBC, the Italian director confessed that he "really wanted" another actor...
TIFFAmid a starry cast, Edgar-Jones especially gives a "beautifully understated" turn as a woman struggling with same-sex attraction – but there's too much plot for the film's own good.In its bare-bones plot, On Swift Horses sounds like a love triangle,...
TIFFGia Coppola's latest is an atmospheric and sympathetic drama about the showgirls on the Vegas strip, featuring "sharply drawn characters" and outstanding performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and Pamela Anderson.Pamela Anderson is a revelation and Jamie Lee Curtis is funny...
TIFF(Credit: TIFF)In his stunning new drama, Leigh portrays "living, breathing, flawed but good people", with Marianne Jean-Baptiste starring, in "what is sure to be one of the best performances of the year".The woman at the centre of Mike Leigh's brilliant...
Prime VideoA new documentary series premiering at TIFF explores the legacy of the group adored by millions of Canadians – but largely unknown to the rest of the world.Canada isn't immune to creating musical megastars, from Leonard Cohen and Shania...
Warner Bros/ Parisa TaghizadehFrom its early Germanic roots to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Gothic sensibility has journeyed throughout the centuries, morphing through architecture, art, fashion, music and film.Few directors are so instantly recognisable by their aesthetic as Tim Burton....
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