Why Trump tariffs could be a disaster movie for Hollywood May 15, 2025 “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” President Trump posted this month. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the USA, are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, [...]
Final Destination Bloodlines is a bloody good time! May 15, 2025 The Final Destination franchise has been away for a while, with the fifth instalment arriving 14 years ago in 2011. On the 25th anniversary of the first film, a new tale of terror is arriving, but is this type of scare old fashioned? In the past decade we’ve become accustomed to elevated horror, with studios [...]
The fabulous French chateau under 30 minutes from Paris May 13, 2025 Naomi Lloyd finds the perfect French countryside getaway, under an hour from Paris THE WEEKENDChantilly gave the world elegant lace and sweet, whipped cream. The small French town is also home to the magnificent but underrated Chateau de Chantilly, once the playground of princes, with an art gallery housing the largest collection of antique paintings [...]
Sir David Attenborough ‘really struggled’ with being famous, says director May 12, 2025 Sir David Attenborough has “really struggled” with fame, according to his director and producer of more than 40 years. In an interview with City AM, Keith Scholey said Attenborough had struggled with the “whole celeb bit” of his job. “He absolutely is not interested in David Attenborough,” Scholey said. “But he is fundamentally interested in [...]
Einkvan at The Coronet: Jon Fosse play is appropriately gruelling May 9, 2025 Einkvan | Coronet Theatre | ★★★★☆ “You don’t read my books for the plots,” Jon Fosse once said. The same is true of his theatre: His play Einkvan (Everyman) at The Coronet explores familiar ideas: doubles, grief, atomisation, fishing and painting, existentialism. Einkvan is particularly interested in the excruciating feeling of isolation, one that’s experienced [...]
Here We Are, National Theatre, review: Stephen Sondheim musical is more Severance than sing-a-long May 8, 2025 Here We Are review and star rating: ★★★★ Stephen Sondheim’s final musical is nothing like his most famous works – in fact, it’s barely a musical at all, but perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. As Here We Are writer David Ives remarked, the legend relished in challenging his loyal followers with reinvention. “Sondheim makes people crazy [...]
Visit a rooftop bar: London’s best sky-high drinking spots for summer May 8, 2025 Find your favourite rooftop bar: London’s latest openings for 2025 are listed below Provencal themes are jolting drinkers out of the capital and to the south of France this spring, as many of the best London rooftop bars deck out their outdoor areas with escapist design themes. That’s why we particularly love The Culpeper, who [...]
Another Simple Favour review: Blake Lively back after Baldoni battle May 7, 2025 Like her character Emily, Blake Lively launches her new film with an air of suspicion around her. Once one of the most popular stars in Hollywood, recent headlines have been less forgiving following the fallout from her previous project, 2024’s It Ends With Us. The former Gossip Girl star is embroiled in a legal battle [...]
‘I’ve directed Sir David Attenborough for 40 years – these are my best stories’ May 7, 2025 Ocean with David Attenborough is in cinemas from tomorrow – its producer, a longtime colleague of Sir David’s, shares his favourite memories of working with the legendary broadcaster as he turns 99 Here’s a remarkable fact: when TV producer Keith Scholey first worked with Sir David Attenborough in 1983, the nature documentarian was approaching the [...]
Why going all-inclusive in the Maldives gets the best of paradise May 6, 2025 Ruth Jessop was surprised when she feel for all-inclusive life in the Maldives I’m sitting on a tiny seaplane with twelve other people. We’re packed in tightly: there’s barely enough room to stand up, and most of us are knocking elbows with the other passengers, and jetlagged. The journey to the Maldives has been long [...]