Why people are celebrating Hacks’ surprise victory
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Last night’s biggest shock came when this HBO show about a veteran stand-up comic starring Jean Smart took best comedy
The best culture to look forward to this autumn
BBC/ Peacock/ Universal Pictures/ HBO (Credit: BBC/ Peacock/ Universal Pictures/ HBO) From imagined futures to mid-life stories and the return of the erotic – here
Why My Brilliant Friend is one of the best shows on TV
HBO As the final season of the HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels begins this week, why has the show not received the plaudits
Pamela Anderson is ‘a revelation’ in poignant Las Vegas-set drama
TIFF Gia Coppola’s latest is an atmospheric and sympathetic drama about the showgirls on the Vegas strip, featuring “sharply drawn characters” and outstanding performances from
‘A dreary, underwhelming, unnecessary slog’
Niko Tavernise Joaquin Phoenix returns as the infamous supervillain with Lady Gaga as his sidekick in a musical sequel that is “disappointing” and “not much
George Clooney and Brad Pitt star in ‘genially watchable but forgettable’ crime caper
Apple TV Ocean’s Eleven stars Clooney and Pitt reunite as underworld fixers who have more in common than they’d like to admit – the result
Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Maria Callas, starring Angelina Jolie, is ‘too adoring and reverential’
Netflix Pablo Larraín’s fact-based drama, starring Angelina Jolie as opera diva Maria Callas, is witty and beautiful, but “this Callas is an icon rather than
Julie Andrews on the mixed legacy of being Mary Poppins
Alamy The Hollywood star seemed to be the embodiment of the magical nanny when she featured in the 1964 Disney film. In a 1976 interview
The Star-Spangled Banner’s surprising origins
Getty Images It’s one of the country’s best-loved songs – but the US national anthem, recently performed by The Chicks at the Democratic National Convention,
Romulus – Why people are so upset about its surprise cameo
Disney (Credit: Disney) The new Alien film has enraged many with the re-appearance of an actor from the 1979 original – brought back from the