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  • Blanchett in Tár.

    Film
    From Ripley to Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

    Ahead of her starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Black Bag, and as her London stage run in The Seagull continues, we look at the screen queen’s most commanding roles
  • Lady Gaga.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lady Gaga: Mayhem – a fabulous return to her freaky first principles

    After some noteworthy musical and cinematic misfires, Gaga gets back to her core themes of sex, sleaze and celebrity on an album that sounds not retro, but relevant
  • ‘Alison’, who found a debit card with an unfamiliar surname when her partner suddenly disappeared.

    TV review
    The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed – what sort of country would let the police do this?

    This powerful telling of the shocking ‘spy cops’ story does what only TV can: shows you the astonishing women at its heart. You’ll be engrossed for three hours
  • How far would you go for the shot? … a flooding river in the Highlands.

    Arts
    ‘One slip and I’d be lost in the flood’: shocking report reveals dangers of jobs in the arts

    From dancers breaking bones to camera crews forced to take terrible risks, stage and screen jobs can be hugely hazardous, says a scathing new report. We meet workers who feel ‘disposable’ – and the groups pushing for change
    • Roman Banks (centre), in the lead role of Michael Jackson, performs during a media preview of the Tony Award-winning MJ The Musical, at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in Sydney, New South Wales, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

      Music
      How MJ the Musical sanitised Michael Jackson’s story: ‘Can we really sit in a theatre and pretend?’

    • Anora thong. Anora merchandise from Neon

      Film
      T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget

    • Eloka Ivo and Daniel Evans in Edward II at the Swan theatre, Stratford.

      Stage
      Edward II – Daniel Evans leads a brooding, brutal and brilliant night at the RSC

    • Two police detecives wearing suits, with a fence and lush greenery behind them in a scene from Get Millie Black.

      TV
      Get Millie Black – every bit as great as a Caribbean True Detective

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  • Taio Lawson

    Theatre
    Taio Lawson to shepherd London’s Bush theatre as new artistic director

    Lynette Linton’s successor at the new writing venue in west London promises to build on its bold legacy
  • A group of colorful muppets pose on a Sesame Street red carpet

    TV
    Sesame Street non-profit to be hit with layoffs after staff announce union

  • Woman reading book in bed at home, closeup

    Books
    Poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year

  • Music
    DJ Funk, trailblazing Chicago ghetto house producer, dies aged 54

  • Musicals
    Hamilton cancels plans to perform at Kennedy Center amid Trump shakeup

  • Books
    ‘Reduced to nonsense’: JRR Tolkien’s irritation with typist revealed in archive

  • TV
    ITV profits more than double as production arm reports record earnings

  • Music
    Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84

  • Culture
    Artists told to leave street that nurtured Oscar winner

Reviews

  • Nicolas Baldeyrou

    Classical music
    Mozart: Serenades; Gran Partita review – bright tones and period-instrument agility

  • Michael Fassbender stars as George Woodhouse in Black Bag.

    Film
    Black Bag – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage

    Steven Soderbergh’s spy comedy sends two married agents after a mole, who might turn out to be one of them
  • Renée Fleming and Thomas Guggeis with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall, London.

    Classical music
    LPO/Guggeis review – Wagner and Strauss touches both body and soul

    Renée Fleming brought her communicative gifts to Strauss’s Four Last Songs in a programme dominated by Wagner. Making his LPO debut, Thomas Guggeis was an urgent presence
  • ‘As ethereal as the setting itself, gliding on to the stage’: PJ Harvey at Glastonbury in 2024.

    Music
    PJ Harvey – part folklore, part fever dream

  • Time Together by Luke Horton

    Books
    Time Together by Luke Horton review – old friends, new tensions in this compelling study of middle age

  • Twiggy pictured in January 1968, as seen in the new documentary.

    Film
    Twiggy – Sadie Frost’s breezy telling of sunny fashion star’s landmark career

  • Anselm Kiefer’s The Starry Night, 2019.

    Art
    Anselm Kiefer – creative giant crushed under Van Gogh’s starry might

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Oscars movies

  • The Brutalist

  • Anora

  • The Substance

  • Emilia Pérez

  • Conclave

  • Wicked

  • A Real Pain

  • A Complete Unknown

Regulars

  • Edwyn Collins, for f&m reader interview. Press, publicity photo

    The reader interview
    Edwyn Collins: ‘Could an Orange Juice reunion ever be on the cards? No!’

    The singer-songwriter on breaking up his band, recovering from a stroke, being too old to be a punk, and the chaos of recording with Mark E Smith
  • Gordon and Jim, with Gordon’s mother Margot, San Diego, 1987, by Sage Sohier.

    My best shot
    Gordon and Jim after coming out to Gordon’s mum: Sage Sohier’s best photograph

  • ‘The studio never understood’ … The Warriors, with Deborah Van Valkenburgh on the right.

    Film
    ‘Gangs charged us $200 a night to shoot on their turf’: Walter Hill on making cult film The Warriors

  • Honest playlist
    ‘I can spit hot fire on Baby Got Back’: Sterling K Brown’s honest playlist

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Richard Russell’s cultural highlights

  • Wu-Tang Clan
    Nuthing ta F’ wit: Wu-Tang Clan’s greatest albums – ranked!

Staying in

  • Alison in The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: inside the astonishing ‘spy cops’ scandal

  • No Other Land.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    No Other Land to The Outrun: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An enraging and Oscar-nominated documentary about a tragedy in the West Bank, and Saoirse Ronan steps into Amy Liptrot’s shoes in the heart-wrenching adaptation of her hit addiction memoir
  • Kim Rossi Stuart as Fabrizio in The Leopard.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    The Leopard to With Love, Meghan: the seven best shows to stream this week

    A lush Italian period drama packed with sex and summertime colour, and the delayed lifestyle extravaganza from the Duchess of Sussex lands at last
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Pictures & video

  • Posters for (from left) Alien, Vertigo and The Shining.

    Design
    Give it a Polish! Classic film posters with a twist – in pictures

    A new exhibition shows how artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films such as Vertigo and Alien while navigating communist censors
  • Natalia Osipova and Christopher Akrill in The Exhibition by Jo Strømgren part of Osipova/Linbury @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House. (Opening 06-03-2025) ©Tristram Kenton 02-25 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Stage
    Natalia’s night: Royal Ballet puts the spotlight on Osipova – in pictures

  • From the series: James Nutter & Sons, Bancroft Shed, Barnoldswick, Lancashire. The engine house with Stanley Graham, mill engineer. April 1976 >James Nutter & Sons, Bancroft Shed, Barnoldswick. April 1976 Stanley Graham, mill engineer, at the stop valve

    1970s
    Loom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in pictures

  • Oscars
    Red carpet: Ariana Grande and Demi Moore among best-dressed stars – in pictures

  • Environment
    Branching out: PhotoVogue festival celebrates nature – in pictures

  • The big picture
    Newsha Tavakolian spotlights the Iranian singers silenced by Islamic law

  • Environment
    From leaping mudskippers to volcanic eruptions: the World Nature Photography awards 2025

  • Photos of the day
    Athens protests and Ramadan preparations

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘I visit and his face lights up’: caring for West Yorkshire’s ageing population

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You may have missed

  • A simplicity unburdened by shame … Vettriano in 2001.

    Art
    Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’

    The Scot painted singing butlers, ‘broads’ in bras and tough guys in suits, in works critics found lurid, chintzy, devoid of irony and often sexist. But they were also hugely popular – showing the power of ‘I get it’ art
  • ‘The way I was drinking was moving in a pretty negative direction’ … Tyler’s new album is called Time Indefinite.

    Music
    ‘I don’t want to retreat any more’: guitarist William Tyler on grief, alcoholism and his claustrophobic new album

  • The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl

    Stage
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Lion King, Churchill in Moscow, The Other Place and more

  • Zzap! editorial, late 1985, King Street. From left to right: Julian Rignall (Software Reviewer), Gary Liddon (Software Reviewer), Gary Penn (Assistant Editor), Roger Kean (Editor) being dictatorial. Note the Sinclair User sign in the background which was "borrowed" from EMAP's stand at the annual computer fair in London.

    Games
    Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s

  • That daring young royal on his flying trapeze … Dylan Barone in the title role.

    Stage
    Revered in Riyadh but nixed in New York: how The Little Prince (almost) conquered the world

  • Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Adolescence.

    Television
    Is this the most terrifying TV show of our times? Adolescence, the drama that will horrify all parents

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