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One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again
Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformed There’s a startling moment in this BBC refugee documentary when Syrian mother Nisreen – in the apparently miserable situation of hiking across the Balkans towards Germany, four kids in tow – suddenly explodes with joy. “This is the best holiday I’ve ever had! It’s an amazing adventure.…
Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon
The artist who was inspired by Swiss glaciers, the Vietnam war and her own divorce was sidelined from St Ives’ art history – but finally has a major retrospective at Tate At the centre of Tate St Ives’ newly opened retrospective of the British modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, her monumental altar-piece Glacier (Blue Cave) pulls viewers into its frozen tendons of turquoise and white. Its mouth…
Outlander celebrated with special Bafta Scotland award
Sam Heughan is among four members of the production team due to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Television award.
Crossings: Laura Pannack’s award-winning images of South African youth – in pictures
The British visual artist and photographer Laura Pannack has been named the winner of the inaugural Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence 2025. A collaboration between Gost Books and the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, the award supports photographers engaged in long-form documentary work. South Africa has one of the world’s highest levels of social inequality and a rapidly growing youth population…
The Zombies' Rod Argent back on stage after stroke
The songwriter is not planning a return to touring as he wants to spend more time with his wife.
‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
The Jojo Rabbit director blamed the dismal numbers for his film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel on ‘obsolete’ reviewers’ notices, adding that he works ‘for the people’ – whose Rotten Tomatoes ratings are much higher Taika Waititi has launched a furious broadside at “critics” following the disastrous commercial performance of Klara and the Sun, his new film adapted from a Kazuo Ishiguro novel. In a post…
Steve Ellis, frontman of Everlasting Love hitmakers Love Affair, dies aged 76
Singer hit No 1 with pop-rock band in 1968 and scored three more Top 10 hits with them, before solo career featuring collaborations with Paul Weller Steve Ellis, the singer who found fame as the frontman of 60s pop-rockers Love Affair, has died aged 76. A message on social media announced that Ellis died “peacefully” on 30 October, after “complications from a chronic illness”. With his stirring…
BBCSO/Stasevska review – Caroline Shaw’s cosmic visions meet Barber’s lyrical brilliance
Barbican, London The Golden Record and the vastness of space inspire a fascinating but underdeveloped new work, alongside a richly rewarding performance from Randall Goosby As it hurtles away from Earth – 16bn miles and counting – the Golden Record on board the Voyager spacecraft continues to fascinate us. Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners – written for San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque in 2019…
‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies
After Guardian writers picked their choices for Halloween, readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to The Truman Show The murder of the taxi driver is utterly excruciating and the hanging at the end equally so. Both are shown in full, in close up and in real time. The condemned man’s last cigarette is smoked in full. The unease (to put it…
Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo
Writer-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road This has nothing to do with Ian Dury; rather, it is a brisk, effective British indie thriller informed by the legend of Robert Louis Stevenson wrestling his shadow self while writing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The present-day equivalent proposed by writer and director Matt…
‘Funny and self-aware’: why (500) Days of Summer is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films carries special romantic meaning It is September 2009. Barack Obama is settling into the White House. The global economy is hauling itself gingerly out of the financial crisis. And Keisha has just left the Sugababes. But more importantly, I am on a first date. Continue reading...
Martha Stewart says she 'really screwed up' with homeless Halloween costume
The veteran lifestyle guru has deleted a photo of herself wearing torn clothes and dirt on her face.
The Rhyl Poster by Tom McCarthy review – is this avant-garde spy drama worth the riddles?
The hallucinatory crisis of a war-scarred jurist with a painkiller dependency makes for frustrating reading Of the cohort of experimental novelists whose renown grew in the wake of the 2008 financial crash – names include Deborah Levy, Eimear McBride and Claire-Louise Bennett – it was Tom McCarthy who first demonstrated the benefit of bypassing orthodox routes to market. When British publishers…
Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror
Every bog-standard cliche is employed – and fails – in this moribund Aussie thiller, which entirely lacks both bite and bark When talk here turns to what would happen if the film’s werewolf hero were bitten by a zombie, the term coined is “wombie”. Sadly, this inter-species thought-experiment never comes to pass in this otherwise lifeless and crushingly derivative Aussie post-apocalyptic slog…
Meeting Elvis was ‘my biggest day with the Beatles’, says road manager’s book
Mal Evans’s tale of historic meeting among revelations in forthcoming memoir unpublished before his death in 1976 Meeting Elvis Presley was “the biggest day of all the years I have spent with the famous Beatles”, the band’s loyal road manager wrote. It is among recollections in a memoir that Mal Evans had planned to publish, with the band’s permission, before his death in 1976, aged 40, in a…
‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama
Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say Ahead of production on their first job together, Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney didn’t undergo the standard “chemistry read” to make sure they got on. Which is remarkable, given what…
I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands
Ana Ts’uyeb’s poetic film celebrates the resilience of Indigenous women while exploring the possibility of a different future Shot in her home village of Naranjatic Alto in the Mexican highlands, Ana Ts’uyeb’s documentary debut is a stirring ode to the courageous women of the Indigenous Tzotzil community. The film centres on three important figures in her life: her mother, Margarita; her aunt…
Pay Attention by Laura Kuenssberg review – a BBC reporter’s howl of frustration
After more than two decades of studied neutrality, the journalist delivers some home truths about modern politics Laura Kuenssberg always swore she would never write a book. Amid all the vitriol hurled her way, the BBC’s political editor turned presenter has largely kept her counsel. She rarely complained even when she needed security to do her job unobstructed at Labour party conference under…
Rob Delaney and Bel Powley star in a knotty rehab drama: best podcasts of the week
Sharon Horgan executive produced this moreish road trip story about addiction, mishaps and revelations. Plus, the new one from Serial’s Sarah Koenig “I never thought I’d be back here with the fluorescent lights and lukewarm coffee,” says recovering addict Tim (Rob Delaney). “But then Lucy Green ruined my life.” So begins this intriguing 10-part drama of bite-size episodes, executive produced by…
TV tonight: The Gilded Age returns in all its glossy Julian Fellowes’ glory
High-society plotting is afoot as nouveau riche arrivistes threaten the old order. Plus, David Harewood’s dogged Pierre won’t let a spot of angina slow him down. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, Sky Atlantic Continue reading...
Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
The expansive project has hype and money behind it – but how do you avoid it falling into the disappointment trap so many films end up stumbling into? If the history of failed Hollywood fantasy projects over the past 20 years has taught us anything, it is that transporting audiences to another world is only half the battle: you also have to give them a reason to spend several hours there. The…
‘They said we incited riots’: explosive punks Bad Brains on drugs, self-destruction and recording from jail
Young, black and fuelled by self-help mantras, they were reputedly the best live band on Earth. As their wild first sessions are rereleased, the group talk about scaring club owners – and getting kicked out of the UK Old punks might not agree on much – who was first, who was fastest, where to file the Faith/Void split LP in their record collection – but for those who saw them in their prime, Bad…