A museum devoted to the craft of the ninja – the covert agents of feudal Japan – has been left red-faced after thieves broke in and made off with a…
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Cuties: how an unreleased Netflix film whipped up a frenzy of fury
Yesterday Netflix released promotional artwork and a trailer for a new film called Cuties (Mignonnes, in its original French). It is the feature-length debut by Maïmouna Doucouré, a young film-maker…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: ‘Playing a cop means something different now’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt could be the model of a modern movie star, to the extent the description does not really fit him at all. Acting is just one of the skills…
Lucy Ellmann lands James Tait Black prize, 38 years after her father’s win
Lucy Ellmann has won the UK’s oldest literary prize, the James Tait Black award, for her novel Ducks, Newburyport – almost four decades after her father achieved the same feat.…
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Chi Chi DeVayne dies aged 34
Former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Chi Chi DeVayne has died aged 34. DeVayne, who was born Zavion Davenport, appeared on two series of the hit reality show, in 2016 and…
The Blessed Madonna: ‘Changing my name was a very Catholic experience’
When I meet the Blessed Madonna at her home, she has been having a spectacular morning. Her remix of Dua Lipa’s Levitating, featuring Madonna and Missy Elliott, dropped the previous…
‘There’s nowhere like it’: Alaska’s wildlife refuge fears death by drilling
Biologist George Schaller has traversed the Amazon rainforest, studied lions in the Serengeti and searched for rare antelope in Tibet, but for him nothing quite compares to a vast and…