Sep 26th 2020 CÁRDENAS, KAMPALA AND MUMBAI Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub FOR MORE than a...

By Emlyn Travis Louis Partridge remembers exactly where he was when he discovered that he had been cast as the noble Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether, in Netflix’s newest film Enola Holmes, out today (September 23). He was in...

Sep 21st 2020 TECHNOLOGY HAS always mattered in the prosecution of war crimes. The Nazis who stood trial at Nuremberg were damned not only by war reporters’ photographs and films but also by their own typewriters and mimeographs. Forensic...

Sep 20th 2020 AT THIS TIME of year New York City is normally gridlocked. World leaders and their delegations, as well as hordes of consultants and folk from non-governmental organisations, flood into town for the United Nations General Assembly...

Sep 19th 2020 GLASGOW, PARIS AND ZOOM SHIRLEY ISLAM has little faith in politics. Elected representatives “are either bickering on TV, or wasting taxpayer money, or trying to sell something,” says the 48-year-old care worker from West Lothian, in...

While many of us were learning to bake sourdough during quarantine, the actors Zendaya and John David Washington filmed a whole movie — and in secret, no less. In July, Deadline broke the news that the two would star in...

By Sara Radin “Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song?” teenager William Miller, played by Patrick Fugit, asks rock star Russell Hammond, played by Billy Crudup, backstage. “Do you have to be in love to...

Sep 12th 2020 GENEVA Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub THE GLASS and metal headquarters of the...

By Alex Gonzalez HBO Max’s latest film Unpregnant offers a timely update to the traditional road movie, which typically sees a group of friends in search of debaucherous adventures. In this case, ex-best friends Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) and...

Timothée Chalamet is afraid. But he’s not letting the fear grip him. A trademark floppy-haired Chalamet anchors the new trailer for upcoming sci-fi epic Dune, wherein he broods about his future, wears a breathing tube to navigate inhospitable terrain,...

Sep 7th 2020 PATRICIA WRIGHT expected to spend her life in prison in California, for ordering a hitman to kill her husband—which he did. Twenty-four years later, as the covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc across America, she has been released,...

Sep 6th 2020 IN MANY COUNTRIES citizens have in the past few months faced restrictions on their personal freedoms unprecedented outside wartime. Many have been confined to their homes; those venturing out have found restaurants, bars, cinemas, theatres and...

UPDATE (9/4/2020 10:20 a.m.): Production on The Batman has resumed without Robert Pattinson, Variety and the Daily Mail report. Director Matt Reeves is apparently trying to complete as much of the film as he can without its star, who...

Sep 1st 2020 Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hub FOR KARINA CELIS and her fiancé James, covid-19...