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AlamyTwenty years ago, Ang Lee's drama about the love between two male sheep herders was finally released after a long struggle to get it made. It was a watershed moment for gay representation that balanced playing by Hollywood's rules and...

Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay BakerBloomsbury, Knopf, Penguin Random HouseFrom multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very best fiction of the year so far.Riverhead Books, Penguin Random HouseDream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieMore than 10 years have passed since...

Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images(Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images)Today's youth are harking back to the messy hipster aesthetic of the late 2000s and early 2010s – and at the heart of that was French designer and queen of cool,...

Miya MizunoAlex Garland and Danny Boyle have reunited for a follow-up to their 2002 classic. It has visual flair, terrifying adversaries and a scene-stealing performance from Ralph Fiennes.28 Years Later is part zombie-apocalypse horror, part medieval world-building, part sentimental family...

LionsgateAction blockbuster From the World of John Wick: Ballerina has been one of the summer's big flops so far – and its muddled title could be to blame.Last week saw the release of From the World of John Wick: Ballerina...

Apple TV+/ F1(Credit: Apple TV+/ F1)Brad Pitt plays a long-in-the-tooth former Formula One star in a "slick and shiny" new summer popcorn film from the team behind Top Gun: Maverick.Brad Pitt's character in F1, Sonny Hayes, has had a tough...

Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Back in the 1980s, Disney commissioned a sequel to The Wizard of Oz which was as scary as it was unconventional. It was a box office failure, but has since become a cult classic.The films we watch as children...

Getty ImagesForty-three years ago this week, the BBC reported on the death of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker whose body was found in strange circumstances in the centre of London. His bank was linked to the Vatican, a masonic group...

Getty ImagesWith his famous wig and shades, Warhol cultivated a mysterious, enigmatic persona. Now a new exhibition with unprecedented access reveals the man behind the elaborate façade.Bob Adelman Estate/ Westwood Gallery NYCAndy Warhol, pictured here with his Flower paintings at...

AlamyBlending the style of The Rolling Stones with African beats and instruments, Zambian group Witch were revolutionary – then disappeared. No one could have predicted their amazing return.In the early 1970s, Zambia produced a unique music scene of its own...