(Editor’s note: The interview was originally published on October 1, 2025.) Emily Blunt and Benny Safdie don’t share a ton of screen time in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” where Oscar nominee Blunt played rabblerouser-turned-steely-wife Kitty Oppenheimer, and Safdie appeared as “father of the hydrogen bomb” Edward Teller. They did, though, spend time together during the making…
Ella Baron In a year in which I’ve drawn too many cartoons about powerful people acting with impunity, the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stood out to me as a rare win for justice and accountability. Dark humour feels vital to make light of everything that’s going wrong, but I’ve also been trying to draw cartoons…
(Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Stranger Things” Season 5, Volume 2 — Episodes 5-7.) I’ll be honest: I never expected anyone in the main cast of “Stranger Things” to die. After Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) disappeared at the end of the first season, only to reappear at the start of the second…
I retired from the civil service five months ago and I’ve still not received my pension. I’ve complained to the Civil Service Pension Scheme (MyCSP) repeatedly, but it doesn’t reply. The Pensions Ombudsman says they need evidence that MyCSP has not responded to my complaint. How can I provide evidence of a failure to reply?…
The Testament of Ann Lee Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Singing Christ You will be redirected back to your article in seconds The team behind “The Brutalist” returns for another, possibly even better epic about someone coming to America and building a church. ad Source link
When Keir Starmer stood on the Labour conference stage in 2018 and defied Jeremy Corbyn to call for a second Brexit referendum with remain as an option, it put him in pole position to become the next Labour leader. Starmer must now feel a sense of deja vu watching Wes Streeting, the most out-and-out pretender…
Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Independent Film Company releases “The Plague” in select theaters on December 24. The experience of engaging with a film can give you a reference for expressing a personal idea that you didn’t previously have the words for. This transference makes a moot…
Warning. This column contains good news, when it is an (un)truth widely acknowledged that only grim stories attract public attention. News must be something someone somewhere doesn’t want printed, says the old maxim. Well, battalions of interests want to suppress good news: the overwhelmingly Tory or Reform UK press and antisocial media sites don’t want…
Editor Affonso Gonçalves has worked with directors as wide-ranging in style as Maggie Gyllenhaal and Todd Haynes, Roger Ross Williams, and Ira Sachs. But on “Hamnet,” he wasn’t just brought in to bring a raw, rhythmic, textured approach to the fictionalized story of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), Agnes Shakespeare (Jessie Buckley), and how the death…
When Donald Trump’s second state visit was announced, and when the finer details for the Windsor banquet on 17 September 2025 became known, there was no way Led By Donkeys was going to let that pass unprotested. It was just so craven, rolling out the red carpet for Trump. Their next art-activist event unfolded like…