T he cream of Hollywood descended on the iconic Dolby Theatre on Sunday night to celebrate the 94th Annual Academy Awards. The ceremony began with last year’s Best Supporting Actor winner Daniel Kaluuya and H.E.R presenting the award for Best Supporting Actress to Ariana DeBose for West Side Story, makingContinue Reading
W hen the Academy voters get it right, they really get it right. Recent big winners Parasite and Nomadland are truly astounding works of art and the fact that gazillions of people were encouraged to seek out those films as a result of the Oscar hoo-ha justifies all the hypeContinue Reading
W elcome to Cultural Capital, our weekly pick of what’s on in London. This week, we’re visiting the new home of the National Youth Theatre on Holloway Road, we’re shaking a tail feather at the V&A for Thing of the Week, and I review Joachim Trier’s latest film, The WorstContinue Reading
T he Oscars is the film industry’s biggest extravaganza of the year. Excitement has been building around the potential nominations ahead of the shortlist being released in early February. Every year the prestigious awards ceremony attracts a whole galaxy of Hollywood stars and the A-list put on a show-stopping displayContinue Reading
T he Charles Dickens Museum’s attempts to expand its social media reach have fallen foul of TikTok’s strict guidelines because his name includes “a rude word”. The museum in Holborn, based in the house where the novelist lived and wrote classics including Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, set up anContinue Reading
A fter more than a year’s wait, Bridgerton is coming back to our screens in T-minus three days and the tension is threatening to burst our bodices. You would have been hard-pressed to have missed the first series. The frocks, drama and scandal made it a worldwide hit, viewed byContinue Reading
H eard about the guy who got a call from his doctor, and got checked out immediately? No, of course you haven’t. That’s because some people are Olympic gold medallists at sticking their heads in the sand. It seems that this ducking the inevitable stretches back at least to 1933Continue Reading
W est Side Story actress Rachel Zegler has stunned fans by admitting that she hasn’t managed to obtain an invite to the Oscars. Zegler, 20, made her acting debut in Steven Spielberg’s highly-regarded remake of the classic musical last year, and the film is up for Academy Awards in sevenContinue Reading
Review at a glance W hen Lady Whistledown’s voiceover finally kicks in during the opening episode of Bridgerton’s second season, asking “Did you miss me?” like an 18th century Gossip Girl, the answer will surely be a resounding ‘yes’ from the Regency romance’s millions of fans. In the year andContinue Reading
O ne of the Russian music scene’s most outspoken critics of the invasion of Ukraine is coming to London for a show in aid of refugees affected by the war. Oxxxymiron, a leading artist in Russian hip-hop, will headline the Russians Against War (RAW) charity concert at the O2 Shepherd’sContinue Reading
