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CultureSeth Meyers on Elon Musk: ‘Nobody likes him’
Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s praise for Elon Musk as well as the physical appearance of several male US Senate candidatesLate-night hosts recapped Donald Trump’s recent comments on Elon Musk and the physical attractiveness of numerous male candidates in the upcoming US midterms. Continue reading...
21 Oct 2026
Culture‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?
With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives. But do they ever come out well?In You Can See Everything, convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invites film-makers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home in a supposed act of “radical transparency”. Holmes is filmed,
21 Oct 2026
CultureThe Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch by Thure Erik Lund review – is this the greatest living Norwegian writer?
Translated into English at last, this portrait of a man appalled by modernity and desperate to get back to nature is brimming with Nordic weltschmerzT-O-M. The initials of Tomas Olsen Myrbråten, the narrator in Thure Erik Lund’s The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch, spell out the Norwegian word for “empty”. Approaching 38, he’s already a relic. He spends his days slumped at the kitchen table or
21 Oct 2026
CultureMaking Marie Antoinette review – sweet Coppola home movie reveals the family business
Shot by Sofia’s mother Eleanor this documentary shows something of the strain of shooting a period piece, but is a far cry from the tumultuous portrait of her husband in Hearts of Darkness It is 20 years since the release of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette starring Kirsten Dunst; it is a supportively unjudging, unironised study of the queen’s early years before the 1789 revolution, lavishly and a
21 Oct 2026
CultureYou Can See Everything mania lifts viewership for The Dropout by 186%
The hit Elizabeth Holmes documentary led to increased interest in the award-winning narrative series on Hulu as well as Bad Blood, a 2018 book on the scandal‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films‘You can’t make this stuff up’: why we remain fascinated by Elizabeth HolmesInterest in Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud scandal has surged ami
21 Oct 2026
CultureTom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time
The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DCDigger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop. It is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era.Digger Rockwell, the eponymous protagonist played by Tom Cruise, is a bluntly caricatured Texas oilman blase
21 Oct 2026
CultureJason Alexander recalls Palestinian protection in Ramallah
Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander recalls a visit to Ramallah that challenged his fears about visiting Palestinian cities.
21 Oct 2026