ENTERTAINMENT

When Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion signed up to adapt Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel The Power of the Dog, she deliberately sought out a female cinematographer to work alongside. Specifically Ari Wegner, a name you’re going to be hearing a lot more often from now on. It may be 2022, but the combination of both a female director and a female ...

Liverpool, Glasgow and London were among the places to double as Gotham City during the filming of The Batman, as a growing number of British locations are given starring roles in blockbuster movies. One day in October 2020, onlookers in Liverpool looked up to see a mysterious figure dressed in black standing on top of the city’s famous Liver Building. ...

When Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido talks about music he is calm and collected. But bring up politics or charity work and he jumps out of his chair. “I’ve been doing music for 11 years,” he told the BBC’s DJ Edu. “Other things kind of excite me more,” he continued, while insisting that he was still committed to making music. He ...

Sections of the fabric roof of London’s O2 arena have been shredded by the strength of Storm Eunice’s winds, causing the venue to close. Opened in 2000, and formerly known as the Millennium Dome, the landmark in Greenwich, south-east London, has been damaged by gusts of up to 80mph. The building has been evacuated and will be shut for the ...

American rapper Lil Wayne will play his first UK show in several years at the Strawberries and Creem festival. The 39-year-old musician has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and won five Grammy awards. He was forced to cancel a UK tour in 2011 after his visa application was reportedly rejected by UK border authorities due to prior convictions. His ...

Protesters gathered outside a Jimmy Carr gig urging him to apologise for his comments about the Holocaust. The comedian came under fire for saying “nobody talks about the positives” in reference to the Nazi murders of thousands of people from the Roma, Sinti and traveller communities. A number of protesters gathered outside the Cambridge Corn Exchange on Wednesday. Carr’s representatives ...

Ben Whishaw has just rebooted his computer. The Bafta, Emmy and Golden Globe winner is having sound problems. “Hello. Is that any better?” he asks hopefully, but still sounds like someone gargling in a submarine. The 41-year-old is known for roles ranging from Q in the last three James Bond films to the voice of Paddington Bear. He has joined ...

The funeral of Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s most beloved singers, is under way in Mumbai with full state honours. Mangeshkar, whose voice was the soundtrack to hundreds of Bollywood films, died aged 92 on Sunday. PM Narendra Modi and stars of the entertainment industry are attending. Large crowds have gathered to pay their respects. Her extraordinary career spanned more ...

Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s most beloved singers, whose voice is the soundtrack to more than a thousand Bollywood films, has died aged 92. She had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai city in January after testing positive for Covid-19. The doctor who treated her said she died of multi-organ failure. Mangeshkar had an extraordinary career spanning over half ...

An appeals court in France has cleared Congolese music star Koffi Olomidé of sexually assaulting four of his former dancers, but convicted him of holding the women against their will. The court overturned a 2019 ruling that found him guilty of the statutory rape of one of the dancers when she was 15. But he was convicted of depriving the women ...