The virtues of Niamh Algar
The rising Irish actor talks Shane Meadow’s plaintive new drama – one so naturalistic and tender that it feels intensely close to documentary.
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What the death of the ‘Like’ tells us about ourselves
“It seems telling that we need ‘Likes’ taken away from us, even though we view caring about them as gauche and grotesque...”
‘Drawing a Blank’ is returning to London tonight!
Curator Ben Broome has brought 15 of his artist mates back to his hometown for this year’s group exhibition.
Why are people modding Thomas the Tank Engine into video games?
It’s one of the modding community’s odder recent crazes. But how did an ’80s kids classic become an underground obsession?
Review: The Society
Fresh from Party of Five creator Christopher Keyser, Netflix’s newest series is a seductive teen drama asking big questions.
Mega-collector Vince Aletti shares his favourite alternative magazines
Work from Irving Penn, Steven Meisel, Bob Richardson and more makes the cut in his new book Issues, charting the history of fashion photography.
Global art calendar: May
Curator, writer and art-lover Shonagh Marshall has edited a list of the must-see exhibitions opening this month.
Bret Easton Ellis: “I think people want to be victims”
Recent interviews portray Bret Easton Ellis as rather bristly. But then he is an author known for his candour in capturing the depravity of a certain high-flying class of people.
Jameela Elfaki’s guide to her favourite photographers
The AZEEMA founder’s round-up casts a light on their blossoming network of creatives. Now, in no particular order...
Rhea Dillon’s film is looking at societal issues from within
The Name I Call Myself is the latest film by the 23-year-old artist asking the big questions.
Straight Outta Hollywood
May 1991: In homage to the late John Singleton, director of ‘90s cult classic Boyz N The Hood, The Face unearths an archive feature on the rise of “Black Hollywood”.
What does a celebrity smell like?
It’s the question that comes up most often after any interaction with a famous person. But sometimes, perhaps we’re better off not knowing…
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Mafalda on falling in love with London
The DJ and radio host recalls the night of dancing that prompted her move to the city.
Amazing Grace
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Jessie Buckley’s time is now
The Irish actress on her “totally fockin’ exciting” forthcoming role.
The joys of cheating and being cheated by video games
Tracking the ethos of “not playing fair”, from Sonic 2 to Sekiro.
Ron Galella has met every celebrity and has the photos (and stitches) to prove it
The Bronx-born “Godfather of Paparazzi” has been punched out by Marlon Brando, spat at by Sean Penn and taken to court by Jackie O. But retirement? Fuhgeddaboudit!
How Nicholas Galitzine got into the mind of an addict
The actor convincingly plays a recovering heroin addict in Netflix’s new Twin Peaks-inspired psychological drama Chambers.
Dragged Across Concrete and the Post-Blue Lives Matter cop drama
With its besieged mindset and paranoid sense of constant threat, S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete feels more like a spiritual inheritor of Michael Winner’s Death Wish than 22 Jump Street.
Sophie Green takes us to church
The photographer has been documenting the holy rituals going on in South London's African community.
Review: Under the Silver Lake
Director David Robert Mitchell’s surreal LA fantasy is probably beloved by the same people who bang on about the intellectual merits of Infinite Jest.
Nick Waplington’s forgotten photographs
The photographer on his seminal – destroyed and now unearthed – Living Room prints 28 years on.
