Film

Instagram-surrealism, Jeffrey Campbell Litas, custom-made drugs and finding new ways to entertain ourselves: our favourite Substack writers more weigh in on the future of everything.

Meet the actors, musicians, and designers looking to leave their mark this year.

Call sheet: From Moonlight acclaim to a lead role in Whitney biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, the path to becoming a critical darling has never looked so chic.

Because sometimes a sensible plotline just doesn’t hit the spot.

The young Londoner spent two years, naked and blue, filming James Cameron’s epic sequel. This is The Way of Water, and the way of building an acting career from teenage dreams.

Sam Levinson’s upcoming show The Idol touts itself as “the sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood”. But in the year of Blonde, Pam & Tommy and a post-Roe United States, any story that claims to be the pinnacle of sleaze faces stiff – no pun intended – competition.