Category: Culture

Alamy (Credit score: Alamy) The standard barn jacket, chore coat and donkey jacket have all gone from useful workwear to “It-item”. As a development, is it a betrayal of the clothes’ US and UK working-class roots – or does it “honour the grit and resilience” that they symbolize? The barn, chore and donkey jacket at […]

Searchlight Photos From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic that includes Timothée Chalamet, these are the movies to stream and watch on the cinema this month. Disney It was in February 1964 that the US succumbed to Beatlemania. The Fab 4 spent three weeks within the nation that had […]

An creator who has drawn robust parallels with the long-lasting Black lesbian feminist author Audre Lorde has spoken to FRANCE 24 about Lorde’s legacy, and her hope that she is carrying on her message. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is creator of the brand new biography “Survival is a Promise – The Everlasting Lifetime of Audre Lorde”. […]

They hit the headlines shortly after Islamist fundamentalists proclaimed a caliphate in Syria and Iraq: the younger girls who packed their luggage and embarked upon a brand new life, unaware of the destiny that may await them. A brand new movie, “Rabia”, imagines the journey of a younger French recruit and her encounter with the […]

Movie critic Emma Jones tells us why Hugh Grant’s creepy character is the star attraction in his newest movie, “Heretic”. We additionally talk about well timed French function “Animale”, as Oulaya Amamra performs a lady attempting to navigate the macho world of bull-running within the Camargue area, whereas grappling with private trauma. Plus, Portuguese auteur […]

British director Elizabeth Sankey bravely recounts her story of scary isolation and undesirable ideas after childbirth in her spellbinding documentary “Witches”, which is out on Mubi. The movie options interviews with medical professionals, historians and fellow victims, and makes use of previous movie footage exhibiting pop cultural illustration of witches. The director speaks to Eve […]

On this arts24 music present, Jennifer Ben Brahim tells us concerning the massive album launch of the week: rapper Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX”. The shock file pays homage to the California hip-hop artist’s roots, with a heavy dose of West Coast rap. The album comes as Lamar is about to carry out at this 12 months’s […]

Aidan Monaghan (Credit score: Aidan Monaghan) Ridley Scott’s epic sequel starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington has been broadly criticised for its historic inaccuracies. The BBC asks Roman historical past consultants to separate reality from fiction. You may joke that for his work on Gladiator II, Alexander Mariotti had one of many hardest jobs in […]

Common Footage Earlier than it was a Hollywood blockbuster it was a megahit musical, and earlier than that it was a 1995 novel. Creator Gregory Maguire tells the BBC concerning the inspiration behind Depraved. When writer Gregory Maguire was a baby, he and his siblings would frequently act out scenes from the traditional 1939 movie, […]

He could have made a reputation for himself in light-hearted British rom-coms like “4 Weddings and a Funeral”, “A couple of Boy” and “Notting Hill”, however Hugh Grant has undergone a startling transformation over the past decade, rebranding himself as a personality actor in darker roles. His newest outing in “Heretic” is definitely in that […]