Two women say actor assaulted them, one on a film set in 2021 and the other on another shoot in 2014Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults of two women on the set of a film in 2021, prosecutors have an...
Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may ha...
US research suggests that 92 minutes is the optimum length for a film. But I have sat through long films that felt short and short films that felt buttock-annihilatingly long I can still remember sitting down to Theo Angelopoulos’s legendary epic fi...
The comedian’s claim that wokeness is the reason why comedy is no longer as funny is lazy – and inaccurateJerry Seinfeld is currently at saturation point, promoting his new Pop Tarts movie Unfrosted. Still a canny operator, however, Seinfeld understa...
‘We filmed it in a rough area of San Francisco. One day, a totally naked guy who was watching us said, “Are you remaking Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The first one was better”’I was still a teenager when I saw the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatch...
Thirty years ago, Riverdance’s groundbreaking Eurovision interval performance ignited a new generation’s devotion to Irish dancingEvery Irish dancer remembers the first time they watched Riverdance. For many, that bolt from the blue struck 30 years a...
The Max adaptation of John Green’s 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plotFor better and for worse, John Green’s young adult worlds tend toward the dramatic and expansive – big swings, big emotions, big m...
Survey of 2,000 Americans conflicts with the box-office records being broken for film running well over two hoursA market research poll claims to have established that 92 minutes is the “ideal” movie length for American audiences.According to Talker...
The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling storyPart Egyptian tomb, part masonic temple, the 1930s headquarters of t...
Underbelly Boulevard, LondonThere are shocks aplenty as daredevils perform death-defying acts hair-raisingly close to the audienceCircus used to happen in big tops. The Underbelly Boulevard is a very small top, a venue where the fire-breathers almost...
A man spins a story in a doctor’s waiting room, sparking a fairy tale of loss and desperationFilm-makers Claire Coache and Lisle Turner are a couple who survived the horrific experience of losing two babies during pregnancy: one to a medical terminat...
The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been...
The search for song that has consumed thousands of Reddit users is over, with discovery that it was written for pornographic filmIt’s a musical mystery that has been confounding the internet for years. But an ultra-catchy 80s-sounding song that seemi...
Busted for cruising in an LA toilet, he proudly turned his police documents into art. Now the Californian is bringing Being Alone – his elegant hymn to anonymous hookups – to Venice and LondonVeer to your left in the main exhibition of the Venice Bie...
This kids’ adventure story with a faux medievalist vibe has a cute conceit and some fun sequences but the inexperience of the cast and director showsIf you’ve ever tried to make a home movie with young children, you quickly come to appreciate how har...