Jan 20, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Ai Weiwei, Chinas most famous dissident and artist, has called art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence (AI) meaningless. What I find most striking about this comment is how it manages to look both...
Jan 16, 2024 03:55 am UTC| Entertainment
A new Netflix documentary, You Are What You Eat, showcases sets of identical twins as they adopt different diets. For eight weeks one twin follows a vegan diet while the other one follows an omnivorous diet. The experiment...
Jan 15, 2024 03:09 am UTC| Entertainment
As an actor and teacher of method acting, as well as a mother, I was surprised by Natalie Portman saying in a recent interview that method acting is a luxury women cannot afford. The actor was questioning how acting...
Tom Wilkinson: an actor of great humanity who seldom played the lead but dominated the screen
Jan 08, 2024 22:24 pm UTC| Entertainment
It is rare that the news of the death of an actor brings with it a pang of loss for something more than their craft, something perhaps more profound. But such was the public regard and affection for Tom Wilkinson that his...
Jan 04, 2024 04:39 am UTC| Entertainment
I grew up in the southeast of England. There wasnt all that much to do. I remember spending a lot of time at the local cinema. You had to drive to get there. I watched pretty much anything I could. Tom Cruise was...
The Taste of Things review: this gastronomic French tale is a feast for the senses
Jan 04, 2024 04:35 am UTC| Entertainment
Trần Anh Hùng, the Vietnamese-born French director known for his Oscar-nominated film The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) and Norwegian Wood (2010), returns with another gorgeous work, The Taste of Things. Due for UK...
Black Panther, Wakanda Forever and the problem with Hollywood – an African perspective
Jan 01, 2024 12:10 pm UTC| Entertainment
Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were global hits that played out in an imaginary African kingdom and feature a universe of black creative talent. Whats not to love about the franchise? Quite a lot, reckons...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well