When the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho was writing his latest movie, in 2021, he felt shame about the situation in his homeland as it took “a sharp turn to the right” under then president Jair Bolsonaro. “Well-informed friends…
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film…
Russ Roberts: Today is September 29th, 2025, and my guest is author, podcaster, journalist Stephen Dubner. He is the author, with economist Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores…
There is a strand running through Nobody’s Girl – a memoir by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide in April this year – in which the activist and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein grapples with something more insidious than abuse. “I…
Children’s authors are speaking to young islanders as part of an annual book week.
Peter Bently, Jenny Pearson, and Ele Fountain will tour schools across the bailiwick and organisers said they would “celebrate the magic of reading” with more than…
Indian director Muzaffar Ali‘s freshly restored 1981 classic “Umrao Jaan” will be shown outside the country for the first time at Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival, which has unveiled the lineup of…
On a railing, not far from Tate Modern, is a lockbox. Enter a code and inside is a membership card to the museum, enabling free access to its temporary exhibitions. You get your ticket, you return the card.
Yorgos Lanthimos fans based in Los Angeles eager to see his latest film for free are in luck: a cinema is offering complimentary tickets to a special screening on Monday to anyone who is either already bald or is willing to have their head shaved…
