Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJo Brand on brushing off the critics of her comedy Jo Brand is a woman with staying power – she’s been on our radar for the best part of three decades and the media have cast her as everything from man-hater to national treasure during that time. […]
A new movie telling the story of the Peterloo Massacre has had its UK Premiere in a cinema near the site in Manchester where a troop of sabre-wielding cavalrymen charged into a huge workers’ rights protest in 1819. The carnage that followed is the subject of Peterloo, Mike Leigh’s new film starring Maxine Peake. The […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAdam Clayton shows us around (and through) U2’s 30-metre long “barricage”. “The two things you can’t have up here are vertigo and a need for stability.” U2 bassist Adam Clayton is giving me a tour of “the barricage”, a 29-metre long, double-sided LCD screen that the band […]
Spoiler warning: This story reveals plot details about the series premiere of The Conners. Image copyright ABC US TV viewers failed to flock to new Roseanne spin-off The Conners, which has suffered a 43% fall in ratings. The show – which follows Roseanne being cancelled after she posted an offensive tweet – debuted on US […]
Image copyright Getty Images “I came into guitar from a really odd angle, and I didn’t really want to learn to play it like other people,” says Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil. “It wasn’t something to get good at – it was just an extension of my personality.” Whatever he did to get good at guitar, […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Keira Knightley at the Elle Women in Hollywood event Keira Knightley says she has banned her three-year-old daughter from watching Disney films whose portrayal of women she disagrees with. Edie Knightley Righton is not allowed to watch Cinderella or Little Mermaid. Knightley told Ellen DeGeneres that 1950’s Cinderella “waits […]
Banksy’s work the Girl with Balloon sold for a final total of just over £1m to an anonymous European woman. Seconds after the hammer fell at Sotheby’s on 6 October the artwork started to shred itself. Pest Control, a firm acting on behalf of the elusive artist, renamed the piece Love is in the Bin. […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Emma Bunton presents the Heart radio breakfast show with Jamie Theakston Spice Girl Emma Bunton is the new presenter of the US version of The Great British Bake Off. The Great American Baking Show will return to TV in the US later this year with Paul Hollywood returning as […]
Image copyright Sir Quentin Blake/Science Museum Image caption Pioneering pilot Amy Johnson and her de Havilland Gipsy Moth plane Illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has brought his own unique style to pictures of some of the world’s most celebrated scientists. Sir Quentin, known for humorous work in children’s books, has made a set of five works […]
Image copyright Getty Images The partial shredding of a Banksy artwork didn’t go entirely to plan, the artist has confirmed. Love is in the Bin self-shredded in its frame immediately after selling for £860,000 at Sotheby’s last week. Now, Banksy has uploaded a video suggesting the entire canvas was supposed to shred, and not just […]
Hollywood actress Jodie Foster has narrated a documentary paying tribute to Alice Guy-Blache who is credited with being the world’s first female film director. Blache made her first movie in 1896 and was subsequently involved in the production of some 1,000 films from shorts to features. BBC Talking Movies’ Tom Brook reports. Source link
Image copyright Alamy Netflix has announced that one of its biggest ever hits, Orange Is The New Black, is coming to an end. The women’s prison-based comedy drama will finish after its upcoming seventh and final series. In a video on the show’s official Twitter account, cast members including Uzo Aduba and Taylor Schilling promised […]