Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination
While Peter Strickland’s most recent feature sends up sound artists, Georgina Starr’s short makes for a more challenging listen
Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
Rakewell marvels at HBO's surprisingly true-to-life portrayal of the obsessive art collector in pursuit of a Jean Royère pepper shaker
The story of the scammer who passed herself off as an heiress should make for must-see television, but reality far outstrips Shonda Rhimes’s overly safe retelling
In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?
Roger Michell’s last film tells the unlikely story of how the Duke of Wellington’s portrait was stolen from the National Gallery – and found in a train station four years later
Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Philip Barantini shot his 90-minute movie about the drama of a busy restaurant service in one take – and it's nail-biting stuff
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
There’s more than one way to knock a figure off its pedestal, as a documentary about dressing up public monuments in Liverpool shows
The Chicago art scene turns out to be a suitably chilling setting for Nia DaCosta’s sequel to the cult horror film
Like the rarest works of art, white truffles from Alba are commodities in a mysterious, monied world
Two documentaries on the ‘lost Leonardo’ have found the story’s sensationalism irresistible – but hard facts are as absent as the painting itself
The TV competition series is billed as a ‘masterclass’ – and none of the contestants will be booted off until the finale. Where’s the fun in that?
The meticulous attention to Chinese decorative arts is as great a draw as the court intrigue in ‘Story of Yanxi Palace’
The Amazon series limps through its art history but is just about salvaged by its endearingly goofy hero
Agatha Christie's sleuth has been nowhere more at home than in ITV's interwar locations – their clean lines the perfect match for the punctilious Poirot
The Gardner Museum heist hasn’t been solved in 30 years – and it’s perfect fodder for a true crime documentary
As a new documentary reveals, the Scottish painter braved wind, rain and Arctic ice in search of his 'rough truth'
Francis Lee’s film plays fast and loose with Mary Anning’s life – but at least it digs the great geologist out of historical obscurity
For Katherine Parkinson's TV play about portrait sitters, Roxana Halls ‘ghost-painted’ a series of portraits – a demanding role, as they tell Apollo
The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal
