The teen pop star turned Olivier-winning actor stars as Andrew Scott’s best friend in the acclaimed Ian Charleson biopic. She talks kindred spirits, social media and trying to channel a ‘mad storm of grief’ The late Billie Whitelaw, whom Samuel Beckett considered “a perfect actress”, was on stage in theContinue Reading

Ahead of the UK release of Nathan Fielder’s hotly anticipated Elizabeth Holmes film, we count down the most shocking and affecting true stories ever committed to cinema A 50-second dispatch from daily life blew the whistle on the approaching juggernaut of cinema and its unbeatable horsepower of verisimilitude. But ifContinue Reading

Crystal Palace FC or Oxbridge beckoned, but the multitalented MC kept forging her way towards music. She explains how she poured every aspect of herself into her debut mixtape Two weeks before we meet, UK rapper Cristale was scrambling down a cliff face to a secluded black pebbled beach inContinue Reading

As she releases a brutally honest memoir, the new wave icon opens up about industry sexism, living with bipolar disorder and becoming ‘the world’s first atheist ordained minister’ The first thing Jane Wiedlin tells me before our interview even begins is that, an hour or so earlier, she downed twoContinue Reading

He is a sci-fi titan but M John Harrison has just exploded into the mainstream – with The End of Everything, an apocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. Does he really think we have no hope left? With his twinkling eyes and silver ponytail, M John Harrison doesn’t seemContinue Reading

A new book, With Wittgenstein in a Gay Sauna, reveals the deep-rooted queer subcultures in cities from Budapest to Prague – defying regional stereotypes and inspiring an art exhibition on masculinity The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that our understanding of reality is fundamentally bound by and shaped by the languageContinue Reading

As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors’ first visions. They sketch out what could be lost A film industry dominated by AI is a dystopian prospect: stories and dialogue generated by large language models, populated by reincarnated screenContinue Reading

He thinks painting is futile, the YBAs were an embarrassment, and most artists today might as well be working in carpet shops. So why is his new show full of, er, paintings? We meet the confounding British artist ‘This is so bad isn’t it?” says Ryan Gander, grinning like aContinue Reading

How did a Uruguayan medic who grew up under an anti-music dictatorship win a best song Academy award? As he looks set to scoop up more prizes at the Latin Grammys, we meet the extraordinary Jorge Drexler It makes sense that a Uruguayan doctor turned singer would write a songContinue Reading

Rachel Ojuromi and her stylist friend Debby Fasingha recreated high-end designs in effortlessly cool videos shot around the city. Then the fashion house came calling Before Paris, there was Lagos, with its busy markets, roadside stalls and maze of disorderly streets. And then there was Rachel Ojuromi, sashaying through itContinue Reading