Culture

On what would have been his 80th birthday, a worldwide singalong involving 300,000 children took place to celebrate Bob Marley’s legacy.

Anora is not your typical Oscar contender – set in New York’s Brighton Beach, it tells the story of a young sex worker – played by Mikey Madison – who falls for the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch.

The Seed of The Sacred Fig is a film but also an act of resistance. The film won the special jury prize at Cannes and an Oscar nomination. But it also earned its director, Mohammad Rasoulof, an eight year jail sentence.

A new film tells the story of France’s only female bull jumper – who’s competing in a totally male dominated world.

In the film ‘Bank of Dave’, Dave Fishwick battled London’s financial elites to set up a community bank, played by the BAFTA-winning actor Rory Kinnear.

William Tell may have been a fictional character, but the story of the Swiss huntsman and resistance leader forced to shoot an apple from his own son’s head has endured for over 500 years.

He’s one of Brazil’s greatest directors – known for ‘Central Station’ and ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’.

It’s an unlikely bit of advice from someone who’s achieved global success as a multi-talented composer, lyricist, actor, writer, and comedian.

If you go to the opera or indeed any classical music over the festive period there’s a very good chance it will be conducted by a man. According to the Royal Philharmonic Society’s last count, just two British orchestras had a female principal conductor. That imbalance is about to change somewhat when Speranza Scappucci takes…

Colman Domingo has a new film – Sing Sing – which explores the transformative power of art and theatre inside prisons. 

When Britpop giants Blur announced they were reforming for a 2023 tour, they were out of practice, out of shape, and hadn’t spoken to each other for years.

Two actors struggled to find work during the pandemic, they found an unlikely outlet for their craft – staging a production of Hamlet entirely inside the online world of Grand Theft Auto.

A G7 summit may not seem like a promising setting for a film.

Gregg Wallace has apologised for saying that complaints about his behaviour came from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.

A new documentary explores the fraught history between China and Taiwan and the territory’s fight for autonomy.