Brad Pitt sues ex-wife Angelina Jolie for selling stake in French winery | Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt has sued his ex-wife Angelina Jolie for selling her stake in a French winery they had bought together – and where they got married –…
Read moreConfucius, Beowulf and an AI called Kevin: Everything Everything’s search for hope in strange places | Everything Everything
A common criticism of pop music today is that it is too dominated by technology. Vocals are smoothed into perfect pitch and drums or synths come from…
Read moreDog review – Channing Tatum and a problem mutt take a strange ride | Channing Tatum
Swiftly doing away with any extraneous guff, the title of Channing Tatum’s to-the-point co-directorial debut Dog doesn’t need a journey, a way home or even a purpose,…
Read moreAudrey Hepburn’s 20 greatest films – ranked! | Audrey Hepburn
20. Green Mansions (1959) This exotic MGM romance directed by Hepburn’s then husband, Mel Ferrer, was in fact her first big flop. Anthony Perkins plays a Venezuelan…
Read moreProtest takes place outside Jimmy Carr Cambridge gig in response to Roma joke | Cambridge
Jimmy Carr faced protests outside the venue where he performed on Wednesday evening in response to comments he made which have been described as racist and offensive…
Read moreTop 10 buildings in fiction | Books
Rather as everybody supposedly thinks they have a book in them, I wonder if every novelist thinks their mind holds unbuilt architecture. I know I do. Not…
Read moreNew Star Wars: how the TV spin-offs became more The Phantom Menace than The Empire Strikes Back | Television
Fans of the original Star Wars trilogy, your time is up. Remember when you knew that the one true set of works based in a galaxy far,…
Read moreThe Forest review – Florian Zeller’s infidelity tale is masterfully executed | Stage
Florian Zeller’s brand of psychological theatre in which fractured inner states are expressed through form is undeniably slick. Like his Oscar-winning film, The Father (adapted from his…
Read more‘Less high school, more horror film’: why is teen drama so miserable now? | Television
If our school days are the happiest of our lives, I’m worried for the Euphoria teens. In the season two opener, the kids of East Highland saw…
Read more‘A certain pleasant darkness’: what makes a good fictional sex scene? | Books
One of my favourite literary sex scenes is a swift and quiet one. In Colm Tóibín’s The Pearl Fishers, a gay man having dinner with a former…
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