Baftas 2021: Britain’s big film awards night – live!
All the action as Bafta goes virtual for its star-studded awards ceremony and the industry’s best-known names wait with bated breath
Category: Culture
Gandalf the red: confusing and cheap, but Soviet Lord of the Rings is curiously charming
Could this ramshackle 1991 Russian adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring be the best adaptation of Tolkien’s work?
Ainsley Harriott: ‘I talk to my ingredients when I’m cooking’
The former Ready, Steady, Cook presenter on his love of the children’s classic Animal Magic, and the Galloping Gourmet
Terminator vs Rocky? What’s next for the versus movie?
The monstrous success of monster smackdown Godzilla vs Kong may bring back a subgenre of movies that pit one famous character against another
Ryley Walker: ‘Going two days sober was impossible since I was a kid’
He was hailed as the new Nick Drake, but addiction nearly destroyed him. Now he writes songs ‘in a state of joy’ and, after stacking shelves for minimum wage, has released his best work yet
Salman Rushdie on Midnight’s Children at 40: ‘India is no longer the country of this novel’
Four decades after his Booker-winner was published, Rushdie reflects on the Bombay of his childhood – and his despair at the sectarianism he sees in India today
How Leslie Jordan made it big: ‘If you want to get sober, try 27 days in county jail’
After starring in Will & Grace and American Horror Story, his life took a twist in lockdown and he became an Instagram superstar at 65. He discusses fame, fun and sharing a cell with Robert Downey Jr
Let’s have an answer! Take our fiendish University Challenge quiz
Ahead of the grand final of the brain-squeezing series next Monday, test your mental mettle with 15 questions set by the show’s quizmasters
‘There were pitched battles, fist fights’: how Britfunk overcame racism to reinvigorate UK pop
Blending jazz-funk, glam rock and punk energy in the late 1970s, Britfunk crash-landed into the charts and inspired club culture. The musicians relive one of the first homegrown Black music scenes
Hear me out: why 2017’s Ghost in the Shell isn’t a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers defending lambasted films sees some praise for Scarlett Johansson’s controversial sci-fi action thriller