Janelle Monae

Artists and footballers warm up for Manchester international festival

Janelle Monáe, work by Yayoi Kusama and Ryuichi Sakamoto and a collaboration between footballer Juan Mata and artist Tino Sehgal kick off at this summer’s event

Shaad D'Souza

14, Mar, 2023 @11:01 AM

‘If Agatha Christie was writing now, there’d be a tech billionaire’: Daniel Craig and the stars of Knives Out on the new age of whodunnits

It was the slowburn hit of 2019 that revived murder mysteries for the big screen. Now Knives Out is back with another killer cast – who talk dressing up, their festive plans and the Mafia fiend among them

Rebecca Nicholson

17, Dec, 2022 @7:00 AM

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review – Daniel Craig’s drawling detective is back

Benoit Blanc returns, with a cast of A-listers from Edward Norton to Janelle Monáe, in Rian Johnson’s ingenious new whodunnit romp

Peter Bradshaw

23, Nov, 2022 @1:00 PM

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review – sequel has more bang for buck but blunter weapon

Toronto film festival: Rian Johnson’s entertaining follow-up brings back Daniel Craig and the same, if less potent, cocktail of twists and mystery

Benjamin Lee in Toronto

11, Sep, 2022 @6:32 AM

Antebellum review – the horrors of slavery repackaged as entertainment

Janelle Monáe stars in a lushly shot thriller that fails to justify its subject matter with anything resembling social commentary

Ellen E Jones

01, Apr, 2021 @8:00 AM

The Glorias review – Gloria Steinem biopic is a laughably shoddy mess

Julie Taymor’s film on the multiple life stages of the defining feminist turns what should be a fascinating character study into an embarrassing disaster

Adrian Horton

29, Sep, 2020 @5:23 AM

Janelle Monáe: ‘What is a revolution without a song?’

From starring roles in Moonlight and Hidden Figures, to a genre-busting musical career, the actor and singer has always gone her own way

Emma Brockes

26, Sep, 2020 @6:00 AM

Lizzo and Lil Nas X criticise Blackout Tuesday for obscuring protests

Musicians lead call for constructive response to share helpful information among those moved by George Floyd death, rather than posting millions of black squares

Laura Snapes

03, Jun, 2020 @10:56 AM

The week in TV: Unprecedented; A House Through Time; The First Team; Space Force and more

Hats off to Headlong’s cracking series of short lockdown dramas. Elsewhere, Steve Carell fails to take off but Janelle Monáe enthrals

Euan Ferguson

31, May, 2020 @8:30 AM

Capes, chainmail and kaftans … the first post-ballgown Oscars

Old Hollywood glamour – and the values its represented – gave way at this year’s Academy Awards to a new generation of fresh looks and powerful stances

Jess Cartner-Morley

10, Feb, 2020 @4:25 AM

'Time to shine': Janelle Monáe celebrates diversity in Oscars opening number

In an over-the-top reworking of her song Come Alive, the Moonlight star and proud ‘black queer artist’ celebrated the women directors that the Academy Award nominations didn’t

Alex Needham

10, Feb, 2020 @2:00 AM

War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020

Daniel Craig bows out as Bond, the original Ghostbusters make a slimy return and Dickens gets a razor-sharp reboot – our preview of movie highlights this year

Peter Bradshaw

01, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM