Should we cheer the return of Ted Lasso?
Apple needs a guaranteed hit and audiences need a laugh
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Wednesday
Megalopolis and the strange art of negative marketing
Marketeers have made up bad reviews for major works and used them to promote a new film
Monday
In the studio with Merche Gaspar
‘People seek me out because I do things in a certain way’
The life of David Sylvester
The art critic was the master of being in the right place at the right time and with the right people
Tuesday
What is the point of the George R.R. Martin extended universe?
House of the Dragon is still finding its feet and has yet to provide the visceral thrills that might be expected of it
Monday
The revival of Marvel
With Deadpool & Wolverine , Marvel is back, back, back, baby
Monday
Glen Powell is your new favorite movie star
Twisters represents his latest assault on the box office and America’s affections alike
Friday
The Boys is empty shock value
It has just become tiresome
Thursday
The Jedermann, the myth, the legend
Adapting Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play in Salzburg
A new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is enrapturing and impressive
The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating
Inigo Philbrick, the art world’s wheeler dealer stealer
Orlando Whitfield chronicles his friendship and dealings with the wunderkind art dealer during a heady ‘gold rush’ decade in the art world
A beginner’s guide to buying art
A best-selling author, an entrepreneur and an art collector himself, Magnus Resch has written and commented on the art market for years
Wednesday
Emmy nominations 2024: shocks and surprises
Largely a fair judgement on a considerable year for television
Tuesday
Are you looking for a man in finance?
A new song mocks the unrealistic romantic expectations among young urban American women
Monday
What does the future hold for Alec Baldwin?
He is now a free man and able to resume a career that has undergone some spectacular highs and lows over the past few decades
Tuesday
Can Gladiator II save a genre — and a studio?
It would be nigh-on impossible to compete with the original
Wednesday
The new Beverly Hills Cop hearkens to a bygone age of movies
It has the comforting throwback feel of a movie that could have been made virtually any time over the past few decades
Thursday
Paramount is in big trouble
If proper action is taken, then the situation is redeemable
Friday
RIP Donald Sutherland, a Hollywood master
He was an actor who, even in the weakest films he appeared in, brought class and dignity
Monday
Bianca Bosker’s snapshot of the art scene
What drives people’s interest in art is profoundly linked to what makes us human
