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Brendan Beirne/ Shutterstock(Credit: Brendan Beirne/ Shutterstock)From shocking performances to extraordinary costumes, how performance artist and style icon Leigh Bowery, and…
Getty ImagesNew film Saturday Night celebrates the legendary comedy show’s origins β but last weekend’s poor new season premiere confirmed…
Yun Sun Park/ BBC/ AlamyThe tension is building in the race for the White House β and that tension runs…
Getty ImagesDenmark became the world’s first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989, and the…
Why this gross-out body horror about Hollywood beauty standards is 2024’s most divisive film
By Vidya Saras
Mubi(Credit: Mubi)No one who watches this twisted Demi Moore film about a special anti-ageing treatment will forget it. But is…
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Released 40 years ago this month, MiloΕ‘ Forman’s best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies β but…
‘When you’re single and in the city, your friends are your family’: Why the key message of Friends endures
By Vidya Saras
AlamyFirst broadcast 30 years ago this week, the hugely popular show Friends became much more than a sitcom β it…
Niko TavernisFrom Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix pairing up to Anna Kendrick making her directorial debut and a Donald Trump…
Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Lingua FrancaRachelle Hruska McPherson, founder of cult brand Lingua Franca, talks about sloganeering and “luxury activism”.You may…
‘Extremely problematic’: How cult ‘art house erotica’ film Emmanuelle became a global hit
By Vidya Saras
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)To mark the 50th anniversary of the erotic French film that made soft porn mainstream cinema, it’s had a…