Reviews

The Willis family is unbreakable. Tallulah Willis was showered with love from mom Demi Moore and stepmom Emma Heming Willis after she shared that she had been a target of body-shaming online. Posting screenshots of Instagram DMs criticising her appearance, the 29-year-old-who has been open about her struggles with body dysmorphia-wrote on May 15, “I […]

HBO’s controversial new show The Idol ending sooner than planned despite all the attention. The series which follows Jocelyn, a struggling pop star striving for success after a mental breakdown, unfortunately received negative reviews from both critics and audiences, with low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. Moreover, The Idol will now end after five episodes instead […]

Imbecile! Idiot! yelled the estate manager of a vineyard just outside the village of Puligny-Montrachet as I took a shortcut through his vines. He was brandishing an implement. ‘I thought he was going to shoot you,’ my girlfriend said later. Yes, I admit to taking the idea of exploring the vineyards of Burgundy by bicycle […]

Chrissy Teigen just served up a response to speculation about the birth of her and John Legend’s daughter Esti. It all started after the cookbook author posted a picture of their three-month-old to Instagram on May 8, noting the little one “still has the angel on her forehead.” However, not everyone was focused on the […]

It has been more than 20 years since “24” first aired on Fox; its real-time conceit, with a relentless ticking clock moving characters toward collision, made it the kind of hit that’s difficult to duplicate. “Hijack,” a new drama on Apple TV+, doesn’t precisely aim for the sort of thrills and chills “24” generated, but […]

Kyle Jacobs’ cause of death has been determined by officials. The husband of Kellie Pickler died by suicide on Feb. 17, a spokesperson for the Davidson Country Medical Examiner confirmed to E! News May 9. He was 49. Toxicology results showed that Jacobs did not have any drugs in his system at the time of […]

Tracking down various segments of the Berlin Wall scattered all over the US, this eccentric yet down-to-earth documentary from Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez traces how a historic artefact can mutate and splinter into myriad meanings. Transformed by their surroundings as well as the film-makers’ gaze, these concrete slabs are more than a symbol of […]

Having no doubt tip-toed up the Eiffel Tower, taken a photo outside the Sacre-Coeur and sailed down the Seine, you should now head for Paris’s horticultural hot spot: the Jardin des Plantes in the fifth arrondissement. Created in 1635 as a royal garden of medicinal plants, today it contains thousands of varieties spread across 11 […]

A year ago, I opened a respected British journal and read that I was Black. Specifically, I was, it turned out, a Black historian. Who knew? Until then, I was simply known as a historian. The editor was dismayed when I complained about not wanting to be racialised in this way; he imagined I’d be […]

The influence of Jordan Peele’s mighty Get Out lingers behind this enigmatic British sci-fi horror, with its stricken black hero, while white folk get up to insane things in basements; thanks to the often frontal framing, there is something in the visual style too. The difference is that race is an unspoken subtext here, completely […]