From a touching sci-fi blockbuster to a wilfully provocative comedy-drama BBC News

In the 1930s, detailed X-ray analyses of the painting were undertaken and the unicorn discovered and restored. Later, in the 1950s, decades after every trace of the Saint Catherine disguise had been removed from the portrait, further radiographic analysis of the painting’s hidden layers revealed what appeared to be an …

Four years on, the provocative HBO drama is back, with Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney all returning. Unfortunately, though, “it has become a series with very little to say”. Of all the twists you might have anticipated for Euphoria’s third and (rumoured) final season, turning Rue’s (Zendaya) story into …

From an outrageous Ryan Murphy body horror to a new Game of Thrones prequel BBC News

Although fewer than 1% of infections led to paralysis, the sheer scale of polio outbreaks meant that large numbers of children still ended up in iron lungs. They might remain encased from the neck down for days, months or even years. The patients Zogran cared for were still contagious, and …

And if Woo helped lay the foundations of modern action cinema, Chow was right alongside him, showing what the ideal action hero for these times looked like, both in Woo’s own work and other action classics like Ringo Lam’s City on Fire (1987). “He grounds the fanciful action of John …

Unexpected violence Tony’s shooting is arguably the ultimate example of how The Sopranos’ consistently surprised viewers with violence. It follows Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) murdering Tracee (Ariel Kiley) in University (s3:6) and Janice Soprano (Aida Turturro) shooting Richie Aprile (David Proval) in The Knight In White Satin Armor (s2:12). “Years …

The debate over what exactly fairies are – fallen angels, demi-gods, the spirits of humans – continues, and some see their antecedents in the likes of Lilith. Possibly of Mesopotamian origin, Lilith was adopted into some Jewish folk traditions as the first wife of Adam who was cast out of …

The Drama isn’t the first film to engage with high-school massacres: notable examples are Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) and Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011). The difference here is that Kristoffer Borgli, a Norwegian writer-director, puts the subject in a film which is fundamentally a comedy, …

Two hundred serious suspects The FBI was offering a $1m reward for information leading to the Unabomber’s identification and conviction. Set up in 1993, its toll-free hotline, 1-800-701-BOMB, received more than 50,000 tip-offs. With all the fresh clues contained in the manifesto, the image of the mystery bomber was coming …

Half Man premieres 23 April on HBO and HBO Max in the US and 24 April on BBC iPlayer in the UK Apple TV+(Credit: Apple TV+) 11. Widow’s Bay Matthew Rhys (The Americans, The Beast in Me) reveals his deft comic timing in this witty horror spoof, playing Tom Loftis, …

Some scholars have argued that Marcel Duchamp’s upturned urinal, titled Fountain and signed “R Mutt”, was also her work. Irene Gammel in Baroness Elsa (2002) cites the 1917 letter Duchamp sent to his sister Suzanne, in which he writes: “One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym Richard Mutt …

5. The soundtrack The series’ soundtrack has been nothing less than a total bop for viewers. GQ rightly dubbed it “the best ’90s mixtape on TV“. Stretching from ’90s clubland tracks from the likes of CeCe Peniston and En Vogue to slightly more esoteric and ethereal tracks from Cocteau Twins …

StudioCanal(Credit: StudioCanal) 9. I Swear John Davidson has Tourette’s syndrome, a motor disorder that compels him to make offensive remarks at the worst possible moments: he was awarded an MBE in 2019 for his awareness-raising work in Scotland, and he shouted a swear word at Elizabeth II during the ceremony. …

By 23 October he was ready to attack. It began with the largest British bombardment since World War One. Sickened by the carnage of that war in which he had himself been badly injured, he was determined to avoid unnecessary loss of life. According to historian Richard Holmes, the bombardment reflected …

Galsworthy’s writing career spanned the first three decades of the 20th Century and in 1932, he won the most prestigious literary award of all, the Nobel Prize “for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”, said the judges. Gill Durey, honorary associate professor …

In Creation Myth, De Groot ponders the question: to breed or not to breed? A compellingly raw audio memoir, it moves from present to past and back again as it documents its creator’s innermost anxieties about motherhood. Now, from the vantage point of her forties, De Groot finds herself questioning …

Metamorphoses’ ancient tales deal with identity and climate change BBC News

The layers of his work Despite some critiques of the way his work is licensed, Haring’s stock as a serious artist has arguably never been higher. Last week, an exhibition dedicated to his formative years in early 1980s New York opened at The Brant Foundation in Manhattan. Now this week, …

Patty Hearst was abducted by a revolutionary group – but then she joined it BBC News