Sundance 2024Films starring Saoirse Ronan and Kristen Stewart and documentaries on US policing and Amazon union to premiere
After a big, banner year for Sundance with acclaimed films such as Past Lives, Passages, Fair Play and 20 Days in Mariupol all premiering, all eyes are fixed on what will emerge from this year’s edition, kicking off this week in Utah.
Sundance 2024: Kristen Stewart, Saoirse Ronan and Steven Yeun lead lineupRead moreWith the festival’s Covid-era digital element retreating further into the background and a new head honcho hoping to bring back a more independent spirit, the 2024 lineup teases some provocative on-the-ground question marks with fewer known properties and more what ifs, an excitingly rather unknowable set of films to open the new year with. Read More...
Game of ThronesThe genre has a problem with diversity, and George RR Martin’s series is no exception, but some feel its omissions reflect reality
This month, the biggest TV show in the world returns for one final dragon-slaying, wall-toppling, throne-nabbing season. In the time since it last aired, memes have been shared, elaborate theories have been devised and revised, bets have been laid (Lyanna Mormont FTW) and cos-play outfits have been lovingly stitched. Read More...
Irvine WelshReviewJenny Turner revisits lost stories from the Trainspotting eraIn 1997, at the height of the Trainspotting craze, Irvine Welsh wrote a story called "The State of the Party" and published it - o tempora, o mores - in the Face. Vintage Welsh, you could call it, featuring Crooky and Calum, off their faces on acid, and Boaby, the dead junkie they find themselves carting round the streets of Edinburgh, dabbing on makeup to " Read More...