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Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play!’
She is back on the big screen as an assassin, is reportedly the highest-paid female actor of colour ever for a TV drama – and is moving into producing. She discusses fairness, film-making and why acting is still her first loveEven via a video call, fro…
From Mansfield Park to Mojo: why Harold Pinter’s acting deserves to be celebrated
With the Pinter-penned 1963 classic The Servant back in cinemas, there’s a chance to reflect on the playwright’s less-acknowledged acting performancesLike an unhurried but dependable butler, The Servant is here again. It was only nine years ago that Jo…
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod review – polite society’s rude awakening
Lady Chatterley’s Lover and US politics collide in an enjoyable widescreen novel comprising real and fictional characters over half a centuryAlison MacLeod’s arresting new novel begins with the ostensible serendipity of two historic triumphs: within th…
Punchdrunk to stage epic ‘future noir’ drama in old London arms factory
Dystopian Trojan war play The Burnt City at site of Royal Arsenal will be company’s costliest and most ambitious immersive pieceThe immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, celebrated for creating labyrinthine adventures in atmospheric locations, is to un…
Vigil episode three recap – motives emerge amid the murky mystery
At the halfway point of the gripping maritime crime series, the finger of suspicion seems to be pointing ever higher up the chain of commandSpoiler alert: this blog is for those watching Vigil on BBC One. Don’t read on unless you have watched episode t…
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon review – B-movie thrills in New Orleans superhero gumbo
The new film from Ana Lily Amirpour will keep the fans happy with the tale of mind-controlling waitress on the loose the French QuarterIranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour serves up heaped spoonfuls of B-movie thrills in Mona Lisa and the Blood …
Jack O’Connell: ‘Eventually the wheels come off, everything explodes’
Actor Jack O’Connell is known for going to physical extremes to show the vulnerability of violent men. But what does masculinity really mean to him?Are you here to see man?” asks a Spanish waiter as I walk through the café garden, and points towards th…
This Way Up: chaotic coming-of-age black comedy for the over-30s
There’s nothing two dimensional about this beautifully layered, hilarious and romantic post-breakdown comedy• This Way Up is streaming in Australia on Stan. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia, click hereFor those mourning the Fleab…
I’ve lost my family, my house, my country. I know we can live beyond grief
The Christchurch earthquake was just one of the tragedies Michelle Tom survived. From adversity, she says, we can all learn to harness fear, resist panic, and practise trustIn his 1961 book A Grief Observed, about the loss of his wife, CS Lewis said th…