Culture

How fake Hitler diaries fooled the British press

Getty Images In April 1983, a German magazine, Stern, and a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to have made…

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How the ‘gangster’ years of the young Joseph Stalin inspired the gritty Star Wars series

Lucasfilm Ltd (Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd) It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but…

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10 of the best TV shows of 2025 so far

Caryn James and Hugh Montgomery Yun Sun Park/ BBC (Credit: Yun Sun Park/ BBC) From the new season of the…

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Why JMW Turner’s greatest painting is so misunderstood

The National Gallery, London (Credit: The National Gallery, London) As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW…

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Coachella looks from Lady Gaga to Sabrina Carpenter – and the costumes that can make or break careers

Serenity Strull/ Getty Images Behind the creation of the festival’s most iconic and outrageous costumes – from wardrobe malfunctions to…

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How 1950s French horror Les Diaboliques inspired Psycho

Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film about two women plotting murder is a masterclass in…

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The men behind the Great Train Robbery

Getty Images Britain in the 1960s was captivated by the daring of the Great Train Robbery, and the sheer scale…

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A combat epic that ‘does what film does best’

A24 Alex Garland explored the slide into fractious factionalism in Civil War. Now he turns his gaze towards the ferocity…

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What nine rare 1800s photos reveal about US history

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition documents American photography’s first 70 years, exploring the…

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Eulogy is the anthology’s most ‘heartfelt and quietly devastating’ episode ever

Netflix Viewers have been “shattered” by Eulogy, an emotional new episode in the seventh season of Charlie Brooker’s series, starring…

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