Rachel Aroesti

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti

The title suggests a generic experience of nascent womanhood, but What It Feels Like for a Girl is miles from your typical female bildungsroman. This adaptation of journalist Paris Lees’ excellent memoir about growing up in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire (or ‘Ucknall, as the book, with its mesmeric phonetic dialect, has it) chronicles the coming-of-age of Byron, who is seen by others as a boy.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti

It begins as thousands of stories have before – with a dead body and a host of unanswered questions. In The Better Sister, the deceased is lawyer Adam Macintosh (Corey Stoll), husband to high-flying women’s magazine editor Chloe Taylor (Jessica Biel) and father to amenable teen Ethan.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti

Tim Key. Photograph: set design & props: Victoria Twyman; grooming: Neusa Neves using skincare from Shiseido Ginza, TokyoNo, Tim Key doesn’t know why he’s dressed as a pigeon either. In Mickey 17, triple-Oscar-winner Bong Joon-ho’s recent sci-fi blockbuster, the comedian plays a man desperate to join a mission to colonise the ice planet Niflheim. The next thing he knows, he’s on the spaceship – inexplicably trussed up in a luxuriant pigeon suit and acting as the expedition leader’s lackey.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti

Paper tablecloths, blazing sun, spitting grill, plastic chairs, dishes of tzatziki, an expectant cat sidling up to diners: we could be in Greece. “It’s like a holiday,” marvels guitarist Joff Oddie, sipping an enormous iced coffee. But Wolf Alice are not on a Mediterranean jaunt – they’re at a restaurant on an industrial estate in Seven Sisters, north London, a few doors down from the studios where they wrote their upcoming fourth album The Clearing and its chart-topping predecessor, Blue Weekend.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti

In the pandemic, Benito Skinner became internet famous for his camply unhinged impressions of celebrities, reality stars and LA types: his roster includes a devil-worshipping Kris Jenner, Billie Eilish at the beach and a twitching, gurgling Timothée Chalamet. By then, the comedian had been uploading videos for years.