It’s not so often that you encounter contemporary art between bites of acroissant and sips of an oat flat white. Ding! Creative Corners, thelatest project from 4482 [SASAPARI], pulls art out of the pristinewhite cube and into the warmth of three South West London cafés. “Notthe centre. Not the spotlight.…| Culturall
It should be obvious to us: the creation of a film is a long and painstaking artistic, financial and logistical process, and nothing is inevitable. Everyone involved in it, from the leading actors to the most junior technical crew, was chosen at least in part on who was available and on what terms, so it […]| Culturall
The most recent instalment in the James Bond cinema franchise, No Time To Die, was released in September 2021. It was well known that this was Daniel Craig’s last hurrah as 007; 53 years old when the film premiered, he was weary of the sheer physicality of action films, and had told The Guardian several […]| Culturall
Instinctively I am drawn to the attitude that we should avoid rigid boundaries between “high” and “low” culture. They delineate those works, or even entire art forms, that can be great and significant and, with equal force, those which by their very nature never can be, which seems to me a strange and judgemental approach […]| Culturall
The publication of Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, was one of the most anticipated literary events of last year. The young Irish novelist is a commercial and critical sensation, her first three books all winning prizes; Normal People (2018) has sold a million copies in the UK, while Conversations with Friends (2017) and Beautiful World, […]| Culturall
When Garth Hudson died on 21 January, at the venerable age of 87, there was relatively little fanfare in the mainstream media. The loss of a multi-instrumentalist from Windsor, Ontario, whose last live and studio recordings had been in 2013 was not obvious headline fodder. Something profound had indeed happened, however, because Garth Hudson was […]| Culturall
We have recently marked Burns Night, the annual celebration of the life and poetry of Robert Burns (1759-96) held on his birthday, 25 January. The editorial team of CulturAll spent the evening at a restaurant in west London in a diverse group with representation from the United States, Australia, Germany, Mexico and England as well […]| Culturall
David Lynch is a gateway drug, for many cinephiles, to the weird, the extreme and the erotic. My first encounter was probably in the mid-to-late 90s when Channel 4 or BBC2 would screen avant-garde cinema late at night. I have never forgotten the exquisite and sensual terror of Eraserhead’s Lady in the Radiator emerging through […]| Culturall
A few months ago, I wrote about the prevalence of sequels in contemporary cinema. There has been a glut of follow-on movies in 2024, and the reason is straightforward: by making a sequel, you tap into an established audience and proven intellectual property. The public already knows what it can expect, so half of the […]| Culturall
The Diplomat, a taut and popular Netflix thriller which first aired in April 2023, returns to the screen for a second season on 31 October. It is cute timing for a drama based on American foreign policy, just five days before the United States votes for its next president, choosing between a feel-good but flimsy […]| Culturall
This month HarperCollins will release Unleashed, Boris Johnson’s memoirs which are billed as “candid, unrestrained, and revealing”. It is hard to know exactly what to expect: Johnson is an experienced author, with 10 books already in his back catalogue including a novel (Seventy-Two Virgins: A Comedy of Errors, 2004) and…| Culturall
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We’ve all seen Spartacus. It’s a classic of the sword-and-sandals genre, as well as part of the slender canon of films directed by Stanley Kubrick—only 13 feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career. The story of a slave rebellion in ancient Rome which became the…| Culturall