Category : Culture

TV tonight: rapper Digga D's fight against censorship

An incisive new documentary explores the effects of a controversial criminal order against a drill rapper. Plus: Small Axe continues. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...

Strictly Come Dancing 2020: week six – as it happened

With just seven celebrities and pros in line for the Glitterball, it was time for Strictly’s finest to put their best feet forward in week six of the live shows 8.28pm GMT And we’re done! Thanks all for joining in tonight, and don’t forget to come b...

‘It’s a lot of work being black in Britain’ – Tales from the Front Line … and Other Stories – review

Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health workerAs the Covid-19 crisis raged this summer, Talawa theatre company bega...

Trump's furniture fail: that's not a desk, Donald – it's a table for TV dinners

The Resolute desk at the White House is made of timbers taken from a Royal Navy ship. It projects pure power. Is that why the defeated US president has switched to an occasional table?Has Donald Trump conceded the presidency by design? Is his choice...

Black Beauty review – gender-swapped classic makes Beauty a 'mare

A few nods to climate change and disability cannot reinvigorate this bland, corporate retelling of a beloved taleThe children’s classic Black Beauty gets another screen adaptation, this time from Disney: a modern-ish take in which the young human her...

'A bit scary': Gillian Anderson's unnerving portrayal of Thatcher in The Crown

The performance manages to be both hard-to-stomach and queasy-makingThe arrival of Margaret Thatcher in season four of The Crown was keenly anticipated: Gillian Anderson is magnificent, Thatcher was an icon whichever way you cut it, cue popcorn, etc....

Playful portraits and the Queen's Rembrandts on show – the week in art

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s fictitious portraiture is at Tate Britain, Buckingham Palace offers up a post-lockdown assortment of royal art and Jennifer Packer explores race in the US – all in your weekly dispatchLynette Yiadom-BoakyePainted portraiture m...

The Undoing: perfect whodunnit gripping more than one nation

David E Kelley show has confidence in its own abilities and offers respite from world’s insoluble problemsDo we love or hate Grace’s green coat? And who foresaw this thrilling third act of Hugh Grant’s career?These and more are important questions ra...

Dior sticks by Johnny Depp in defiance of 'wife beater' ruling

Fans pledge to buy cologne still advertised by actor after court finds he abused ex-wifeEvidence suggests defiant Johnny Depp fans have been buying Dior’s Sauvage fragrance in support of the actor, who continues to be the face of the cologne despite...

BBC's A Suitable Boy rankles 'love jihad' conspiracy theorists in India

BJP reaction to depiction of Hindu-Muslim romance follows recent rows over interfaith marriagesWhen the BBC’s adaptation of Vikram’s Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy recently landed on Indian Netflix it did not take long for the fanfare to turn to controv...

Tracks of the week reviewed: Daine, Lil Nas X, Cosha

This week we’ve got a bittersweet slice of electropop, a festive TikTok banger, and a glimmering soulful belter Continue reading...

Are you ready to watch the undead dance? ENB goes fantastical with film

Available onlineDirectors from the worlds of pop and adverts have made five films for English National Ballet’s new digital season. From boxing women to glorious goths, you won’t know what’s coming nextA Cuban sugar plum fairy, the undead, a Russian...

Nigella Lawson: 'I reread David Copperfield for a bolstering reminder of greatness'

The author and cook on a life-changing book by Marilynne Robinson, the snobbery surrounding commercial success, and the food writer she hugely admires The book I am currently readingI’m suffering from crippling reader’s block. I had months of it duri...

Crash review – Cronenberg's auto eroticism still has impact

The controversy surrounding the original release of this dark exploration of sexy car accidents now seems quaintly outdated – but the film holds up wellIn 1996, David Cronenberg’s movie Crash, now rereleased in 4K digital, became the subject of the l...

‘It took me three days to get over the orgy scene’: Muscle star Craig Fairbrass

The Londoner has spent years slogging away in hardman movies, but his latest film is a darkly funny exploration of masculinity. He discusses branching out – and the film’s unsimulated sexCraig Fairbrass has made a career from giving a certain type of...