- December 20, 2024
12 of the most striking images of 2024
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) From the awe-inspiring photo of a surfer in Tahiti to the iconic shot of US
How LGBTQ stories got real in 2024
Netflix/ Film4/ A24/ BBC (Credit: Netflix/ FIlm4/ A24/ BBC) From Queer to Baby Reindeer and Will & Harper, LGBTQ representation
The blistering drama showing the US’s racist past from a new, first-person perspective
L Kasimu Harris (Credit: L Kasimu Harris) The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel about two boys
How ultra-traditional tweed found a new fanbase
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Once synonymous with the aristocracy, the thoroughly British winter favourite is now in demand more
How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour became a near-religious experience
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, a “cultural juggernaut” remarkable for both its scale and intimacy, comes
Why we’re ‘living in the golden age of the doppelganger’
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s been a year of lookalikes – but the lure of the “second self” goes
How the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis
Getty Images In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War.
12 of the best films to watch this December
Searchlight Pictures From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are
Nine of the best TV shows to watch in December
Netflix (Credit: Netflix) From the small-screen adaptation of a classic novel to the return of the phenomenon that is Squid
Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world
Universal Pictures Before it was a Hollywood blockbuster it was a megahit musical, and before that it was a 1995