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Arts

  • Two men stand back to back outside, one in a military uniform and the other in a football uniform carrying a ball

    Film
    The Mosquito Bowl – Netflix mixes football, war and cliches in slick by-the-numbers saga

    Peter Berg’s handsomely made second world war drama about a football game before the battle of Okinawa is stirring but filled with eye-rolling dialogue
  • Elke Sommer, with voluminous blonde hair, looks over her bare shoulder at the camera

    Film
    Elke Sommer, prolific German star of A Shot in the Dark and And Then There Were None, dies aged 85

  • A man with short brown hair looking into the camera with trees and sky behind him

    Music
    ​‘He buckled. I could hear his bass ringing out ...’ The luminous rise and tragic end of US alt heroes Morphine

  • Regan, from The Exorcist, with pale scarred skin and white eyes, stares upward

    Film
    Exploding heads, mutant aliens and bursting chests: horror’s greatest special effects – ranked!

  • Underscores

    Music
    Pop prodigy Underscores: ‘I don’t think Gen Z is a loveless generation’

  • Night Plane game screen shows a figure in the aisle of a plane with text onscreen reading 'Hey Bestie You Gotta Run! Ruuun!

    Games
    Night Plane – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror head trip

  • A woman in a grey dress looking lovingly at a man in a white shirt, surrounded by other people

    Film
    Wicker – Olivia Colman finds the perfect lover in intriguing folk-horror romance

Talking points

  • mid century

    Books
    The rise and fall of mid-century modern: how millennials fell out of love with their favourite look

  • A sinking book with cartoon eyes is lured by dollar bill bait on a fishing hook

    Books
    Fake film deals and emails from top agents: who is behind the explosion in literary scams?

  • In South Park, a cartoon woman at a restaurant table recoils as her dining companion explodes in diarrhea.

    Television
    South Park turns to America’s beef shortage – and explodes in diarrhea

  • Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone raises bandaged fists skyward with a city skyline behind him

    Film
    How did a fishmonger who starred in an adult movie make Rocky? The film about Sylvester Stallone’s amazing triumph

People

  • A black and white image of film director Peter Medak in front of a big camera

    Film
    Peter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The Changeling, dies aged 88

  • Jafar Panahi

    Film
    Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi given new prison sentence

  • The musician Peven Everett sitting at a cafe table with his hands clasped, wearing a grey baker boy cap and shiny blue puffer jacket

    Music
    ‘I knead the audience, like a baker!’ House music legend Peven Everett on life after cancer and vanquishing the ‘Disco Sucks’ movement

  • A woman with a curly hair wearing a blue shirt with a mirror behind her

    Books
    ‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity

The big picture

  • Koko and Taylor, two shaggy dogs, stand before a smiling couple seated on a bench

    Metropolis: more than four decades of street photography – in pictures

    From the film-noir streets of 1980s New York to the the modern, colour-saturated geometry of contemporary Australia, the exhibition is a celebration of the absurd comedy that unfolds when people share public space
    Gallery13

Reviews

  • Stephen Graham sits quietly in a brick-walled room

    Television
    Nocturne – Stephen Graham is TV’s most evil serial killer … and it’s impossible to stop watching him

  • Vanessa Redgrave as Sister Jeanne in the Devils, kneels in a cross-emblazoned habit, looking upward

    Film
    The Devils – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria

  • Dame Judi Dench, with short white hair and a blue scarf, stands outdoors among green trees

    Books
    Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? by Judi Dench – whatever you do, don’t call her a ‘national treasure’

  • Jim Morrison carries red skis while climbing a steep snowy slope on Everest

    Film
    Everest: The Other Side – couple’s climb on the mountain’s toughest face comes with tricky moral questions over their lofty ambitions

Pictures & video

  • A person with curly blonde hair kneels on the floor in a pale draped top, lit by red and yellow light

    Art
    ‘Approaching desire with curiosity’: the many facets of Black masculinity – in pictures

    Gallery10
  • Shoshi Doi - Fashion student土井翔司 - ファッションスクール学生

    Art
    Take a stroll between Japan’s past and present – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • Max Dupain, Mother and Child 1952.

    Art
    Light, camera … razor blades?! How photography became an art form – in pictures

    Gallery15
  • Four women in 1940s dresses sit on a park bench talking, one smoking a cigarette

    Art
    ‘Unguarded moments’: a lost archive of street photography – in pictures

    Gallery13

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