2025.11.06

[lsanderson]

Interview
‘I’m so not scary. But my features can be’: Fiona Shaw on Austen, Andor and Harry Potter
As told to Amy Fleming
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/06/im-so-not-scary-but-my-features-can-be-fiona-shaw-on-austen-andor-and-harry-potter

The food stamp fight signals an era of unprecedented cruelty in America
Katrina vanden Heuvel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/06/food-stamp-cuts-snap-benefits

Interview
‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film
Garth Cartwright
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/06/christone-kingfish-ingram-interview-sinners

Review
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour
Peter Bradshaw
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/06/the-choral-review-alan-bennett-ralph-fiennes

Review
Death by Lightning review – absolutely nobody plays losers like Matthew Macfadyen
The Succession actor is utterly brilliant in every moment of this punchy historical miniseries. His portrayal of the crank who killed the US president in 1881 takes his mastery to the next level
Jack Seale
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/06/death-by-lightning-review-matthew-macfadyen-netflix