The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Lover/The Collection; The Divine Mrs S – review
Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – Brian Cox upstaged by Patricia Clarkson’s morphine fiend
February 2024
Long Day’s Journey Into Night: a grand masterpiece and an ordinary family drama
Eugene O’Neill’s mighty drama, returning to the West End with Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, has drawn generations of stage greats and casts its spell with a story we can all recognise
December 2023
Monica review – Trace Lysette is remarkable in understated estrangement drama
Monica review – Trace Lysette superb as painful homecoming heals family wounds
May 2023
Trace Lysette: ‘I can count on one hand the times I’ve seen a film with a trans person as lead’
Actor, who rose to fame with a supporting role in Transparent, leads new drama Monica, about a trans woman returning home
October 2022
First look review
She Said review – a stirring drama about the fall of Harvey Weinstein
The film adaptation of New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor’s book offers sensitive, resonant recent history
July 2022
She Said: first trailer for Oscar-tipped Weinstein abuse drama revealed
The film adaptation of the book by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey depicts their investigation to expose the disgraced mogul
May 2022
TV tonight
TV tonight: the terrifying story of Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
This documentary investigates the death of a property tycoon who was entangled with Russian money. Plus, patisserie week in Bake Off: The Professionals. Here’s what to watch this evening
March 2019
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Out of Blue review – Carol Morley’s visionary thriller
Patricia Clarkson’s homicide cop is the enigma in the director’s inspired reworking of a Martin Amis crime novel
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
Hastings Pier, the Put it to the People march, rappers and poets – the best photography commissioned by the Observer in March 2019
Patricia Clarkson: ‘It’s gotten a little crazy... I can’t leave my house without a hat, glasses’
The Golden Globe-winning star of HBO hit Sharp Objects on defying convention, her new film, Out of Blue, and why the industry’s future looks bright
January 2019
Olivia Colman and Rami Malek at the Golden Globes after parties – in pictures
The winners carried on with celebrations in to the night in Los Angeles at lavish bashes thrown by several of the studios
December 2018
2018: the year in pop culture
2018 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 10 – Sharp Objects
September 2018
Enter the Destroyer: the rise of the feminist detective
First look review
Out of Blue review – Carol Morley conjures a cosmically uncanny noir
July 2018
Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women
The Bookshop review – not a page-turner
June 2018
V-necks, cobbles and bunting: why British film is stuck in the 1940s
This week’s new release, The Bookshop, is the latest in a glut of nostalgic movies centred on Britain in the period in and around the second world war
