Cousteau was the boulevardier of the oceans
For Cousteau, scientific investigation, combined with the potential for good image-making, presented an unavoidable hazard to sea life
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Friday
Tuesday
I’m turning Japanese
In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
Monday
Messing up Beethoven’s Ninth
How do you rein in the overactive bits of Manfred Honeck’s imagination without driving him away?
Saturday
The Decemberists are the only band I adore who have a number of songs I actively despise
Part of what makes them special is the depth of their catalog
Wednesday
The decadence of Taylor Swift’s re-recorded record
Shouldn’t my tastes have evolved in the past 13 years?
Monday
Dark knight of cool
Poor Chet Baker. He really was born to be blue
Pictures at an exhibition
As he collects nearly two decades of essays and criticism, Marco Grassi recalls a life in the art world
Sundance memories
Robert Redford’s film festival goes virtual
Friday
The old man and the documentary
Ken Burns’s Hemingway is a pleasant surprise
Wednesday
Picking Apple
There probably is something here for everyone. But maybe only one thing
Wednesday
Here’s looking at you, Kid
One hundred years on from the seminal Chaplin flick
Tuesday
Stitch-up: why will no one touch The Human Centipede director’s new film?
‘Audiences worldwide want to be challenged, not dumbed down and patronized,’ says Tom Six
Friday
Marilyn Manson and the death of the bad boy
Rebellion used to be sexy, and bad used to be so, so good
Tuesday
Eyes wide open
Frederic Raphael wrote the script for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Now he writes a personal letter to the director’s shade
Ridley’s game
Raised by Wolves reviewed
Monday
Boys will be boys
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Wednesday
A double-standard in colorblind casting
Why can black actors play white roles but not the other way around?
Monday
Did PBS and Henry Louis Gates downplay crimes against humanity?
Gates never once uttered the words ‘genocide’, ‘extermination’ or even ‘ethnic cleansing’ to describe Ottoman atrocities
Monday
Cancel culture comes for Bachelor Nation
Stupid Cupid or cancel-culture victim?
Does anybody practice what they preach?
What Joss Whedon’s downfall tells us about the application of morality