What does the future hold for Alec Baldwin?
He is now a free man and able to resume a career that has undergone some spectacular highs and lows over the past few decades
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Tuesday
Can Gladiator II save a genre — and a studio?
It would be nigh-on impossible to compete with the original
Wednesday
The new Beverly Hills Cop hearkens to a bygone age of movies
It has the comforting throwback feel of a movie that could have been made virtually any time over the past few decades
Thursday
Paramount is in big trouble
If proper action is taken, then the situation is redeemable
Friday
RIP Donald Sutherland, a Hollywood master
He was an actor who, even in the weakest films he appeared in, brought class and dignity
Monday
Bianca Bosker’s snapshot of the art scene
What drives people’s interest in art is profoundly linked to what makes us human
CreatiVets and the art of war
CreatiVets helps disabled veterans through the arts
The evergreen, ageless Rolling Stones
How did the band achieve this curious headlock on our affections?
Plenty of drama but no controversy at the 2024 Tonys
The producers will, you feel, be relieved today
The Trump movie The Apprentice likely isn’t being censored
No American company has yet signed a deal to pick it up for either a cinema or streaming release
Monday
Yes, Will Smith is still a movie star
Summer blockbusters in Hollywood have hope again, as does the career of the man once known as Big Willie Style
Friday
The Baldwins reality show announced ahead of manslaughter trial
The lawyer of the cinematographer he fatally shot referred to the show as ‘calculated and cynical’
Monday
With Eric and Baby Reindeer, is Netflix embracing the dark side?
This is full-strength wackiness, removed from any need to conform to conventional ideas of what drama should or should not be
Tuesday
Why Ted Sarandos — and his son — should be disciplined
They think watching Lawrence of Arabia on an iPhone is acceptable
Monday
Cannes 2024: the highs and lows (so far)
Early word suggests that the Palme d’Or is likely to go to the French director Jacques Audiard
Wednesday
Was the psychedelic art movement worth it?
This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of hippie culture itself
The individualistic talents of the Pet Shop Boys
The eccentricity and idiosyncrasy of Britain’s most commercially successful duo should be cherished and extolled
The new revival of The Wiz is psychologically bland
The original cultural punch of the 1970s production has been replaced with gaudy, empty commercialism
The digital Ozymandias: Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian on his mission to make Giza last forever
‘I’d like to say we’re trying to be the repository for Giza’s past, Giza’s present and Giza’s future’
Monday
Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis: genius or flop?
All will be revealed soon enough at the Cannes Film Festival
