Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
Micro-budget thriller put the brothers on the map, laying the groundwork for a career filled with similarly dark stories of crimes gone wrongThe loathsome proprietor of a Texas bar slumps in his office chair after hours, seemingly dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Another man tries to clean up...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
The actor on his fear of confrontation, his love of mixed martial arts, and what is getting in the way of his sex lifeBorn in Cambridgeshire, Guy Pearce, 57, grew up in Australia and was in Neighbours. He starred in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994, and in LA Confidential in...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
The director and star of hit summer romance It Ends With Us are facing off with lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and defamationIt Ends With Us should have been a success story. The long-awaited film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, a tale of cyclical domestic violence, premiered...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
When his friend, the legendary songwriter, had a catastrophic stroke, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin put together a programme of music therapy. Now he’s recommending it for a whole range of conditionsIn 2015, Joni Mitchell suffered a catastrophic stroke. According to her friend, the musician and neur...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
This entertaining, high concept drama rattles along at quite the pace. It’s very watchable, even if its main character is a sullen grump – and it can feel like prestige TV by numbersEvery actor needs a speciality; Leo Woodall just happens to be really good at portraying total arseholes. In the irres...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
He was an unruly teenager in 90s Los Angeles, who became feted for his turns as Freddie Mercury and a Bond villain. Now he’s turning to Greek tragedy on the London stageRami Malek, in one graceful sweep, lifts the food delivery bags from an assistant and holds open the door of the photographic studi...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Funny, spooky and surreal, this shapeshifting novel from the Francophone author explores Congolese politicsBest known to English-language readers for his novels African Psycho, Broken Glass and Black Moses, Alain Mabanckou, a social satirist of breathtaking originality, is& a& leading name in contem...
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
Newcomers Hammer and Cyclone also join the Lycra-clad pack. Plus: the final part of the ultimate darts series. Here’s what to watch this evening5.50pm, BBC One Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in the much-hyped biopic, and Netflix’s smash thriller returns for another season of moreish political skulduggery* * * Continue reading...
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