Category: 5. Entertainment

In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1986), an ominous black monolith reappears throughout the movie to mark milestones in human progress. Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016), a fully operational toilet wrought in 18-karat…

For classical guitarist Sean Shibe, conventions and limitations are made to be broken. As expected, he plays Spanish standard repertoire and intricate Baroque tunes on his nylon-strung guitar as well as anyone. Note the quiet, wistful…

This holiday season, the best gift isn’t under the tree—it’s on your screen. In a move to help customers maximize value while checking off their holiday watchlists, Verizon is officially dropping prices for those looking to boost their HBO Max…

Joanna Trollope, who has died aged 82, was one of those rare writers who can be said to have invented a genre. When popular fiction written by, and mainly for, women tended to be classified either as “romantic novels” or “historical…

The—very starry—Holiday Party in Los Angeles

Hosted at a private residence adjacent to the Chateau Marmont, LA’s consummate celebrity party-throwers Michael Braun, Vas Morgan, and Cade Hudson pooled their little black…

Every woman loves a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. Here it is tested when Christy Mahon walks into a pub to confess he has killed his father with a farming tool. It’s not quite the truth but he is, to his own surprise, turned into a local…

Timothée Chalamet, Oscar-nominated actor, movie star and man of the moment, has played a worm-riding messiah in “Dune,” the legendary chocolatier in “Wonka” and even Bob Dylan. But his next movie presents an even greater…

The description “special” is overused in television schedules; Stanley Baxter’s programmes justify it. The comedian is one of the few stars whose reputation rests on a handful of astonishing one-offs – standalone comic extravaganzas…