Culture

Why the Oscars are finally giving older women their due

The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood’s top 100 films last year, there were only four…

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How the Eagles’ Greatest Hits broke the US charts

According to biographer Marc Eliot, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, the push to release a…

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riff on the Bride of Frankenstein is ‘exhilarating’ ★★★★☆

When Euphronious jump-starts the corpse, the electrified Bride comes to life with her platinum hair on end, an echo of…

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How Crash pulled off the most shocking win in Oscars history

Yet as much as Crash presented a flawed cross-section of LA society “crashing into each other”, as Don Cheadle’s weary…

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The tragic romance hidden in a 19th-Century painting

Burton used gouache to create this piece, a type of water-soluble paint that gives the painting the vivid colours it…

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How Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech launched the Cold War 80 years ago

Churchill reminded people how he had warned in the 1930s against the appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany but “no…

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The moment Cher wore the ultimate ‘revenge’ outfit

Since then, the phrase revenge dress has increasingly been used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses as they are understood by…

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‘It caused so much upset’: Why Tracey Emin’s messy bed shocked the art world in the ’90s

In 1999, an artwork of a dishevelled divan strewn with condoms and lager cans sparked a media frenzy and turned…

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10 of the best films to watch in March

Alamy 9. Project Hail Mary If you fancy a deeply researched story of a scientist stuck on his own in…

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‘The biggest commercial juggernaut ever’: Why the Oscars peaked in 1998

As exceptional as Titanic was, though, it was part of a significant broader pattern: many of the 20th Century’s best…

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