Killers of the Flower Moon captures the singular sensation of outside-ness
The movie is a hallucinatory masterpiece
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
Monday
Fans of a hit teen drama are trying to cancel its star actor
Gavin Casalegno of The Summer I Turned Pretty fame is in hot water
I took my daughter to see Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all
Friday
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
George Harrison at eighty
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
John Waters, the pope of cliché
Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
Understanding museum theft with best-selling author Kirk Wallace Johnson
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
Wednesday
Killers of the Flower Moon renews debate over Oklahoma history
As Scorsese’s movie prepares to hit cinemas, Tulsa hangs on to its originalist oil history
Monday
Is Taylor Swift ushering in a new era for movie theaters?
The Eras Tour ’s success may indicate a path back to profitability for movie theaters, if not movies themselves
Friday
The Sweet East is the first film to capture 2020s America
Everyone can find their own niche now, but we have so little to talk about together
Tuesday
Were we all wrong about Frasier?
Early reactions to the revised show have been generally positive
Wednesday
Remembering Charlton Heston on his 100th birthday
He was one of the finest screen actors of his generation and remains a symbol of American strength
Monday
Has Hollywood lost interest in making sci-fi movies for adults?
Audiences are not willing to pay their $12 to go and see something new and original
Thursday
Michael Gambon was so much more than Professor Dumbledore
He played countless iconic and legendary roles over the course of a sixty-year career on stage and screen
Let’s start another war to stop Antony Blinken singing
The secretary of state wants to change the world one song at a time
Wednesday
What does the end of the WGA strike really mean?
At first glance, this suggests that business as usual can resume, but the actors’ strike continues
Monday
Sex Education: it’s time class was dismissed
The suspicion remains that the wokery at the show’s heart is being celebrated rather than satirized
Monday
Meet the telemarketer-turned-filmmaker behind HBO’s Telemarketers
Sam Lipman-Stern exposes the entire industry in his frenetic, rip-roaring investigative documentary
Kenneth Branagh: the luckiest man in Hollywood?
He has been given break after break and has done his best with them