arts
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It's about what journalists can coverIs it a blog? A magazine? A conversation? A tasteless drunken boor at a party? Perhaps all of this and more over 14 years of innovative web journalism
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'Writers have to take risks': is this really a new golden age?Musical theater had a bumper year in 2015, with breakout hits such as Hamilton drawing in new crowds and renewed excitement. But is this really a new dawn or has the hype clouded the much more conservative reality?
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Discuss the film with spoilersIt’s supposed to be DC Comics’ answer to Marvel’s Avengers. So how did Batfleck, Wonder Woman et al measure up in this critically derided superhero film?
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Famous photographers shoot their favourite foodAfter 40 years, a cookbook by some of America’s best-loved photographers is being published for the first time
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Neve Campbell – her face is appealing, but not too prettyCampbell’s distinct quality is her deep sincerity: she effortlessly makes you believe she’s just a normal girl, going through extraordinary things by happenstance
people
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lost genius who bridged the gap between beats and hippiesHe was Thomas Pynchon’s roommate, he hung out with Bob Dylan and wrote an American cult classic, yet Fariña is a name few know outside of literary circles
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My most embarrassing moment? Running naked across Trafalgar SquareI am brilliant at not doing paperwork. I could teach a degree in procrastination
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I have the natural tendency of a benign dictatorThe actor’s run of flawed gentlemen continues with his roles in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and High-Rise. He explains his trouble with democracy – and why his statue of buddha is so important
the big picture
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Donald Trump impersonator meets Donald Trump, Las Vegas, February 2016Donald is four years older than me. I think I look like his younger, better-looking brother
reviews
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Empress, Black Panther, and HenchgirlAn independent woman strikes out in a new space opera, the comic world’s most prominent black superhero turns fifty, and Jessica Jones gets a job in a snarky new slacker story
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Bright Star – Steve Martin's sweet, bluegrass-tinged story fails to hit high notesDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin’s tale of an editor in the American south who takes a young writer under her wing lacks Broadway lustre
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Get a Job – a mildly amusing, mediocre romp about broke millennialsA talented cast and star-studded cameos can’t save this by-the-numbers film – bedeviled by canned music and sitcom sequences – about millennial job woes
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Mind of Mine – downbeat sex jams drive assured rebrandThe former One Direction member’s debut, with its Frank Ocean-like falsettos, hazy production flourishes and sad-eyed sentiment, is no box-ticking exercise
pictures & video
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It feels like historyThe Rolling Stones talk about their historic concert in Havana, Cuba, on Friday night, with frontman Mick Jagger saying: ‘It feels like history’ being made
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Zombies walk through Tel AvivThe Jewish holiday of Purim is an occasion for parades, costume parties and celebration – and in Tel Aviv, that includes the annual zombie walk through the city,.
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Watch the first trailer for Ricky Gervais's Netflix filmThe first footage has arrived for Gervais’s new film, also starring Eric Bana, about two radio journalists who file fake news reports from Ecuador
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Renée Zellweger returns in first trailer for Bridget Jones's BabyThe Oscar-winner’s first starring role in six years is in a belated third instalment of the romcom
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Batman v Superman stars Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill: 'Batman's like Hamlet'The stars of Zack Snyder’s superhero grudge match, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, talk to Andrew Pulver
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The haunted face of Sicily‘He was waiting anxiously for a bus in Palermo. His face was a battlefield. He’s not a mafioso; mafiosi stand tall’
Shakespeare Solos
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Thou art not holyCamille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, who laments the loss of her son, Arthur, but disputes the suggestion that she has gone mad
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Are you meditating on virginity?In a speech taken from the first scene of All’s Well That Ends Well, Sacha Dhawan’s Parolles stresses the importance of losing one’s virginity
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Is this a dagger which I see before me?Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1, in which he sees a murder weapon in a hallucination
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Upon the kingSamuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king
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Our revels now are endedDavid Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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I left no ring with herJoanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night in which, disguised as a page boy, she wonders whether Olivia has fallen in love with her
Pleased to meet you Rolling Stones treat Cuba to historic and spectacular gig
Video Rolling Stones kick off first show in Cuba with Jumpin’ Jack Flash