Fabio Lovino/ HBO Right from the start, season three of Mike White’s Thailand-set one percenter drama was beset by criticism and debate – where will the series go from here? Within seconds of the highly anticipated final episode of The White Lotus’s season three ending on Sunday evening, the reactions …

HBO (Credit: HBO) The video game adaptation won many plaudits for its grim-but-humane first season. Amidst a semblance of civilisation, the second series is an uneven odyssey. Despite all the mush-brained infected creatures roaming around, The Last of Us was never really about the zombies. The series’ first season worked …

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) In 1966, the remote Spanish village of Palomares found that the “nuclear age had fallen on them from a clear blue sky”. Two years after the terrifying accident, BBC reporter Chris Brasher went to find what happened when the US lost a hydrogen bomb. On 7 April …

Evan Barlow Ken Burns’s upcoming series, The American Revolution, follows works exploring themes including the US and the Holocaust (Credit: Evan Barlow) Ahead of his upcoming PBS documentary, The American Revolution, acclaimed film-maker Ken Burns tells BBC special correspondent Katty Kay about his unique approach to chronicling US history, from …

Universal Studios From Drop to A Minecraft Movie, these are the films to stream at home and watch at the cinema this month. Cinetic Media (Credit: Cinetic Media) The Shrouds David Cronenberg’s latest sci-fi-tinged drama stars Vincent Cassel as Karsh, an inventor who looks a lot like Cronenberg himself. Grief-stricken …

Getty Images Being Maria, a new film starring Matt Dillon and Anamaria Vartolomei, explores the life of Maria Schneider and the making of one of the most notorious films in cinema history. It may be the most infamous scene in the entire history of cinema. The sexually explicit drama Last …

Apple TV+ Jon Hamm excels in Apple TV+’s “emotionally real but absurdist” drama about a desperate corporate man who resorts to stealing from his neighbours. Jon Hamm has his best role since Mad Men and brings all his sharp comic timing and dramatic nuance to it as Andrew Cooper, known …

Art Institute of Chicago/ Arthur M Wood/ Collection of Alice and Rick Johnson Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack at Giverny, Poplars at …

HBO (Credit: HBO) From the return of HBO’s zombie apocalypse thriller to Michelle Williams in a provocative new role. Amazon Prime (Credit: Amazon Prime) 1. The Bondsman In this droll new series, Kevin Bacon adds demon-chasing bounty-hunter to his long list of horror characters. Hub Halloran was a bounty hunter …

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Gates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked to the BBC about the online innovations that would define the 21st Century. When the BBC first broadcast an interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in June 1993, there were …

(Image credit: The Kinkade Family Foundation) Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade’s quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured story that contrasts with his ‘sugary’ artworks. Thomas Kinkade was one of the best-selling artists in history, as well as one of the most …

Emmanuel Lafont/ Enrico Cano (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/ Enrico Cano) The daring, radical Pompidou Centre was derided by many when its design was first unveiled – yet it has continued to influence the architecture of public buildings ever since. As the building approaches a major renovation, its co-creator Renzo Piano recalls …

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Does the success of women’s college basketball hinge on big names or can it build on the momentum that has come with more eyes and promotion? ESPN’s Monica McNutt and BBC special correspondent Katty Kay discuss the staying power of women’s sport. That success was …

Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images How street-style photography has evolved from the Edwardian era to today. Now it is exploding – and turning fashion upside down. Jessica Chastain, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Parker Posey were among the stars attending the recent autumn/winter 2025 Gucci fashion show, but the photographers weren’t chasing …

Apple TV+ Launching on Apple TV+, a new film industry satire co-created by and starring Seth Rogen nails the business – and features Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron and others as themselves. A film studio head and his team of senior executives eagerly take their seats in a private screening room …

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) On 24 March 1944, 76 allied officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft III – a mission that was memorialised in a classic film, The Great Escape. In 1977, a key member of the escape team, Ley Kenyon, was interviewed on the BBC’s Nationwide. …

Natassja Ebert (Credit: Natassja Ebert) In the latest episode of Influential, US writer Ann Patchett shares how seeing kindness around her influences the way she approaches her characters. The world needs “life-changing books”, Ann Patchett once wrote in an essay in The New York Times. She wasn’t referring to her …

National Portrait Gallery With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, novelist Hilary Mantel made sympathetic a figure long considered a historical bad guy. But did she also ‘sidestep crucial matters’? Nearly 500 years after his death, Thomas Cromwell lives again, reborn in the popular imagination thanks to novelist Hilary …

Warner Bros Discovery (Credit: Warner Bros Discovery) Full-frontal male nudity in all three series of The White Lotus has provoked waves of reaction and comment. Why does showing a penis on screen still have the ability to shock? Episode four of The White Lotus season three, which is set in …

Disney With its creepy CGI dwarfs and muddled tone, Disney’s latest live-action remake is “not calamitous” but is a “a mind-boggling mash-up”. Live-action remakes of Disney cartoons aren’t usually given a warm welcome by critics and commentators, but none of them has faced as much hostility as the new remake …