Stuart Heritage writes about film, TV and music for the Guardian
July 2024
Buddy Oliver! Tilly Ramsay! Welcome to the terrifying age of the nepo chef
Gordon’s daughter got a cookery show first – and now Jamie’s 13-year-old son is at it. Will each young chef be able to obliterate their father’s career and come out on top?
June 2024
‘It isn’t hard to see where things went wrong’: how The Bear went off the boil
Can you tell the election from The Thick of It? Take our quiz
Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?
‘Forget the football and the election – this is the event of the year’: what to watch on TV right now
Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?
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Not suitable for trains: how Bridgerton’s longest ever sex scene set commuters’ pulses racing
Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing
After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing
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Best culture of 2024 so far
The best TV of 2024 in the UK so far
Michael Mosley excelled at making complex ideas look breezily simple
Baby Reindeer in court: the two words that might have saved Netflix $170m worth of grief
‘Show me the money!’ how unofficial merch is cashing in on movie quotes
From racist rants to spiritual guru? What we learned from Seinfeld star Michael Richards’s autobiography
Under Paris: Netflix has delivered one of the best shark movies ever made
Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!
Stuart Heritage
The watcher
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show: features one of the most painful family arguments ever seen on TV
May 2024
A new AI service allows viewers to create TV shows. Are we doomed?
Showrunner will let users generate episodes with prompts, which could be an alarming next step or a fleeting novelty
Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble
Stuart Heritage
‘Paintings are still around, people still go to museums,’ the actor has said, trying to sound positive about the future of cinema. But if you crunch the numbers, this isn’t reassuring
Virgin Island: the bizarre dating show where celibacy is at risk
A group of ‘attractive and confident’ virgins are heading to an island in a newly announced dating show that provokes a number of questions
