TVandfilm

Steven Soderbergh works wonders in London

Making Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender look good in ‘Black Bag’ isn’t exactly hard, but making one of the UK’s ugliest buildings look attractive is an act of cinematic sorcery

23 Mar 2025

What Severance says about our fractured selves

The sinister corporation in the dystopian office drama really cares about art, but the paintings on the walls only highlight the workers’ sense of alienation rather than relieving it

27 Feb 2025

Art for after the apocalypse

Impressionists and post-Impressionists rule among the paintings in Disney+ series ‘Paradise’, but it’s a Sargent that becomes a talking point

23 Feb 2025

What would Jane Austen say?

Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating

21 Feb 2025

The loneliest Bauhaus architect in America – The Brutalist, reviewed

Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed

6 Feb 2025