The writer was one of the brightest stars of British literature when he debuted with ‘Politics’ at the age of 24. Converted to experimental prose, he returns with ‘The Future Future’, a historical novel that speaks of the present and searches for the roots of the #MeToo movement, the erosion of the patriarchy, and celebrity culture
A Sundance-honored documentary by Peru’s Carla Gutiérrez uses letters, essays and interviews to convey the artist’s unease and pain
John Musker, who headed up ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Moana’, is debuting a short film after announcing his retirement from a 40-year career. ‘At Disney in the 1990s, there was an emperor, but there weren’t 10 emperors’
The Cannes Festival is now screening ‘Marcello Mio,’ a film that celebrates the centenary of the great Italian actor and stars his daughter, Chiara. Her Oscar-nominated father spent his career being cast as a ladies’ man, even though the image didn’t match his persona
The rap star who got her break on YouTube has a Latin Grammy to her name. She has made a hallmark out of unexpected, audacious and continuous changes. Now she’s back with a new identity and a new album: ‘Grasa’
The documentary ‘Against the Odds’ sketches the ups and downs that accompanied the band’s success. Though considered uncool in the 1970s, the most unlikely rock and punk rock stars were listening to them on the sly
The discovery of a server with material from Amazon and Max series once again exposes an open industry secret: outsourcing to Kim Jong-un’s regime despite international sanctions
The Australian director reflects on the dispute between the actors nine years after the film’s release: ‘There’s a tendency in this business to use great performances as an excuse for other disruption that could be avoided.’ Before filming the new movie, he spoke with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth to ensure their physical and mental safety
Based on the Universal horror classic, ‘The Mummy’, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, became an unexpected hit 25 years ago
Clive Palmer has been a self-made man, a conservative politician with questionable allies and now wants to become the person who reconstruct the most famous ship in the history of navigation
Authorities had to race to prevent the plundering of priceless heritage ranging from Roman ruins to medieval board games and a megalithic dolmen
Over a half century of writing, the author perfected one of the greatest tricks of any art form: illuminating the universal through the particular
The festival chief, Thierry Frémaux, is committed to ‘letting films speak’ over the noise of political controversies
The owners of the brand, whose 2017 debacle gave rise to one of the most successful documentaries of all time on Netflix, are betting on notoriety to stage a revival
News that the children of the legendary filmmakers will be starring in the comedy ‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’ has reopened debate about how the children of celebrities are encroaching upon Hollywood
Archaeologist and author Rubén Montoya reviews the history of the famous location razed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. After wading through scores of artifacts, he says it was not the erotic destination some have made it out to be
In his debut as showrunner, the director of ‘Oldboy’ directs a mini-series based on the recent Pulitzer Prize-winning book that shows the other side of the generation-defining U.S. armed conflict
There’s something subversive about an adult man in short pants: too sexy, too childish, too sporty. And yet, looks on Paul Mescal, Jacob Elordi and Pedro Pascal, among others, are proof that we’re in a golden age of shorts
The author of ‘Filterworld’ talks to EL PAÍS about algorithmic anxiety, the difference between content and art, and why culture requires effort
The legendary designer and the businessman behind Yves Saint Laurent maintained a personal feud that would last for decades. On the occasion of the upcoming premiere of ‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ — the miniseries about the German designer, which addresses this confrontation — EL PAÍS looks at the reasons for his staunch hatred of Bergé
In ‘Demon Copperhead’ the American author builds a saga about the impoverished Appalachian region and the opioid crisis. Inspired by Charles Dickens, the book won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A BBC documentary about the Roman dictator shows how his excessive ambition for power ultimately overthrew a republican system. The film also draws parallels between him and current forms of populism
The American intellectual — one of the most influential of our time — returns to their flagship topic with ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender?’, a book in which they accuse anti-trans feminists of forming ‘an unconscious alliance’ with conservative currents, which have turned gender into a cultural battle
The French writer and soldier, who also penned ‘The Bridge over the River Kwai,’ didn’t think that his portrait of a society in ruins would work well on screen. We are into the 10th film in the franchise
Specializing in harm reduction, Fernando Caudevilla was involved in the closure of the so-called Amazon of drugs. His story is now being told in a new book
Many celebrities needed assistants just to climb the stairs, and many others could not sit down to dinner. The most glamorous event in the world, the one that celebrates ‘fashion for fashion’s sake’, shows how we have retreated towards archaic and, at times, oppressive fashion
In her book ‘Bits and Pieces’, the actress and presenter writes about her humble but happy childhood, and how her mother, who died in 2010, raised her and her brother all alone. ‘Having it all is as messy as you can get,’ she writes
