Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
The tension between co-founders Roger Hodgson and Davies – who has died aged 81 – was the driving force of a band who refused to fit into any genreIt must be odd to have been a band’s co-founder and joint frontman and to know that when thousands of people came to see you, they did so on condition th...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
What is it like to be in a room full of artists who are observing and drawing your naked body? Sitters discuss the freedom and healing they have experiencedCraig, 54 (@tattooed_nude) I started life modelling 18 months ago. My mum said: “You’re getting all these tattoos and no one gets to see them.”...
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
Code-breaking hero Robert Langdon is back for another conspiracy thriller, featuring underground laboratories and new thoughts on the nature of consciousnessHe’s back, baby! Dan Brown’s first novel in nearly a decade reunites readers with the world’s only professor of symbology, Robert Langdon – a m...
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against Gaza that is still under way nearly two years l...
Focus / Culture - 21 hours ago
Toronto film festival: the actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-betweenIt seems like Steven Soderbergh might have developed a late case of anglophilia, the retirement-teasing director situating himself in London for three f...
Focus / Culture - 22 hours ago
Longlisted for the Booker, this capacious story of love, work and family set between India and the US is both dizzyingly vast and insistently miniatureOn a trip to see his grandparents in the Indian city of Allahabad, journalist Sunny Bhatia flicks through the morning papers, and is immediately at s...
Focus / Culture - 22 hours ago
Nancy Honey’s candid portraits capture girls between 11 and 14, when their bodies start to change and they begin challenging accepted codes of behaviour Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 22 hours ago
Documentary portrait of musician’s varied career is engaging if a little too easy in its admiration for its subjectMusician Frank Benbini is most probably known best as the drummer from Fun Lovin’ Criminals and a latter incarnation of UB40, although as this documentary (which Benbini executive produ...
Focus / Culture - 22 hours ago
Warmly drawn melodrama based on a true story follows a delinquent teen taken under the wing of his kindly drama teacherHere is a sincere and traditional melodrama that opens with a brief sequence that slightly wrongfoots the audience: a small child running at night through a setting that calls to mi...
Focus / Culture - 22 hours ago
The couple up the romance in their charming reality show. Plus: crumb-believable challenges in Bake Off’s biscuit week. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, BBC OneIn the first series of Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash’s life-at-home series, Joe was a bit useless. “You said Pickle Cottage is like our...
The 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, starring Colin Firth, has its own fan group, has inspired university courses and was even featured in the Barbie movie. What’s behind its enduring appeal? I was born in the wrong century – or so my mother says, while I protest from my writing bureau, wax...
There are still many things to love here, but the cracks are well and truly appearing. Too many moments feel laboured … and Meryl Streep should be kept away from comedyIn the mid-90s, Bonnie and Terry Turner created a TV sitcom about a group of aliens (led by John Lithgow as their self-regarding Hig...
The illuminations will continue every weekend until the end of October
The developer behind the plans says traffic will reduce rather than increase at the hotspot
It comes after 'misguided decisions' prevented its sale earlier this year