Popular wins all round Frankenstein, which won three Oscars, and KPop Demon Hunters, which won two, are both Netflix films which had limited cinema releases, but, unlike so much streaming slop, millions of people saw them, loved them and wanted to see them bag some Academy Awards. Meanwhile, Amy Madigan …

This is one of four bedroom suites, its corner position giving views over the bay of San Francisco from two sides. However, the focal point is the walnut corner unit and its embedded TV. “This room projects its penthouse energy by suggesting that its dazzling views are of secondary importance …

4. Best actor Once up on a time, way back in December, this seemed to be Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar to lose, and now it seems like he really will lose it. Michael B Jordan has come on strong lately for good reason: he is dynamic in Sinners and the soul …

“There is an appeal to the simplicity of 16th-Century interiors and an honesty in the materials used,” says interior and architectural designer Guy Goodfellow. “This simplicity did not re-emerge until the Arts and Crafts movement [of the late 19th Century], when it came as a relief after the heaviness of …

Luckily, he’s not quite alone. It turns out that another spacecraft is on the same mission from a different planet, and it, too, has just one living occupant, a crab-like alien made of lumps of stone (a puppet, with some digital tweaking). The jovial Rocky, as Grace calls him, builds …

Spying on the spies The other side of the spy ring – the communications experts – had developed the perfect cover story. Peter and Helen Kroger were, to their neighbours in sleepy suburban London, an antiquarian bookseller specialising in Americana and a homemaker. This was the ideal cover for their …

The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood’s top 100 films last year, there were only four women aged 45 plus who featured as a lead or co-lead, and one was a voice character in an animation: Ginnifer Goodwin in Zootopia 2. None of them were women …

According to biographer Marc Eliot, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, the push to release a “best of” came from incoming Asylum boss Joe Smith, who was seeking to raise funds while the band themselves (responsible for over 50% of the label’s revenue in the mid-’70s) delayed …

When Euphronious jump-starts the corpse, the electrified Bride comes to life with her platinum hair on end, an echo of Elsa Lanchester’s in the original film. A reanimating chemical has left black stains on her face and she doesn’t remember her name. Buckley gives a ferocious performance, but it takes …

Yet as much as Crash presented a flawed cross-section of LA society “crashing into each other”, as Don Cheadle’s weary cop Graham Waters utters in the opening minutes, many felt it too often prioritised its white characters’ perspectives. “[They] have interiority, and they’re dealing with all these brown characters who …

Burton used gouache to create this piece, a type of water-soluble paint that gives the painting the vivid colours it is so well-known for. Gouache is also light-sensitive and prone to fading over time if exposed to direct sunlight or high UV light. Due to the sensitivity of the painting, the …

Churchill reminded people how he had warned in the 1930s against the appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany but “no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool”. He added that “surely we must not let that happen again”. While he did not …

Since then, the phrase revenge dress has increasingly been used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses as they are understood by the mainstream have typically been flattering,  revealing, and likely a bit risqué – a reminder of what an ex is missing out on. In 2014 Rihanna arrived at the CFDA Fashion …

In 1999, an artwork of a dishevelled divan strewn with condoms and lager cans sparked a media frenzy and turned artist Tracey Emin into a celebrity. Why? And what happened next? Back when the world was spinning towards the 21st Century, creative culture was in its own state of revolution. …

Alamy 9. Project Hail Mary If you fancy a deeply researched story of a scientist stuck on his own in space, then Andy Weir is your man. His debut novel, The Martian, was made into a hit film scripted by Drew Goddard, and directed by Ridley Scott. A decade on, …

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The Comeback premieres 22 March on HBO and Max in the US Amazon Prime Video(Credit: Amazon Prime Video) 11. Bait Riz Ahmed has made his name in dramas, earning an Oscar nomination for The Sound of Metal, but he reveals his comic side in this series he wrote and stars …

The ‘matchstick men’ association Lowry hid behind a down-to-earth facade, but this unpretentious attitude may have led some to dismiss his work as unskilled. Asked about why his pictures were filled with so many matchstick figures, he said he would begin with just a few but, “for the sake of …

7. Mass and motion Getty Images Transformed by a photographer’s lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of her polished curling stone, Switzerland’s Briar Schwaller-Huerlimann, competing in a mixed-doubles match against Canada on day four of the Games, appears to have become one with the rock …

George was set apart. Jenkins tells the BBC, “He doesn’t necessarily fit into a kind of Vanderbilt mould. He doesn’t really participate in New York society. He doesn’t inherit any of the business responsibility for his family’s railroad interests. But he starts collecting from a really young age. And so …