Is Austin Butler a movie star?
Might he be the next Brad Pitt? Or something better?
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Might he be the next Brad Pitt? Or something better?
The Met’s newly reopened galleries are breathtaking
The musical is all cliché – and not in a good way
The White House seems to think so
Spike Lee does the right thing
The album was born out of necessity
It’s something C.S. Lewis might have liked
It took a few decades, but he’s finally achieved the prominence he deserves
What makes the show distinctive, and will undoubtedly account for its interest over future weeks, is its marriage between human consciousness and android bodies
Turns out adults are still interested in more than the usual banal superhero slop
Gina Carano’s settlement with Disney may have big consequences
He became the very thing he always raged against
The Freaky Friday star has lived more in one life than most people could in ten
How do we know we live in a free country? When a cartoon can depict a president as having a gay love affair with Satan
The septuagenarian is, somehow, hip
John Singer Sargent was was destined for greatness – and scandal
Hank Hill continues to age well
The show has become a shitlib parody of itself
She didn’t flee oppression; she fled embarrassment
Ari Aster’s new film gives Covid a mythic air
The musician-comedian spread like herpes, rather than Ebola
America loves a wiseass, not a smartass
There will never be another Ozzy
If Dunham was, once, the voice of her generation, that that torch has long since passed to other, more interesting talents
Hollywood could use a little anarchy
It’s easy to forget that there was nothing inevitable about the film’s long-lasting success
The art historian’s memoir is no feminist treatise
We need art that keeps our collective imagination and sense of tradition alive
Why is it so hard to warm to him?