The Twilight saga, the teen vampire romance films that became one of the world’s major talking points in the late Noughties, coming only second, perhaps, to the US election race and Obama’s accession, is going to be remade into a TV series. The news has, predictably, caused a firestorm online,Continue Reading

The RSC has reopened its refurbished Swan Theatre with an eagerly anticipated adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel Hamnet, said Sam Marlowe in The Stage. As “snug and supple” a fit for the Stratford stage as one of the bespoke gloves made by William Shakespeare’s bullying father, it imagines theContinue Reading

The winner of a Sony World Photography Award has rejected the prize after it emerged that he created his image using artificial intelligence (AI).  German artist Boris Eldagsen won the creative category of the prestigious competition with a black and white computer-generated portrait of two women, titled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician. Continue Reading

More than half a century after being written, Judy Blume’s Are you there God? It’s me Margaret is finally hitting the big screen. First published in 1970, the coming-of-age novel drew widespread acclaim – and controversy – for its depiction of taboo themes including puberty and religion. The upcoming film adaption, which starsContinue Reading