Brilliant lead performances, witty set pieces, and cleverly constructed plot twists ensure BBC One’s new puzzle-themed cosy crime series barely puts a foot wrong. It may seem counterintuitive to begin ...

There is something of an elegant neatness to Sasha Dugdale’s most recent collection of poetry, The Strongbox. It is a slender book, in which not a word feels extraneous and internal characterisation ...

Andrea Arnold’s latest, Bird, is an alluring and complicated love letter to North Kent and the process of finding a place there. Having grown up twenty minutes from where these characters live, Arnold ...

HULU’s series adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has come to an end with its sixth and final season and it seems that many fans have mixed feelings about its finale. Beware, there are some spoilers ...

Cast from left to right: Sarah Lancashire as Caroline, Anne Reid as Celia, Derek Jacobi as Alan, and Nicola Walker as Gillian ‘Last Tango in Halifax’ follows Celia and Alan, two former childhood ...

In 1992, Blur hit a snag in their career trajectory. Although their debut album Leisure (1991) garnered them substantial recognition (the LP reached number seven in the charts), the project was met ...

Sit up; Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play might be the best play you’ll see in your summer holidays. Queen bee Paulina seems a shoe-in for the Miss Ghana 1986 pageant, ...

The opening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is iconic, like a cinematic Bible scene in the Church of Hollywood. All the sacrosanct signifiers of the film are captured in those first minutes; the emergence ...

Set in an impoverished district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian director Zoljargal Purevdash’s first feature portrays a young teenager striving for a better future thanks to his talent in physics. Purevdash ...

As the spookiest night of the year approaches, let’s look at one of cinema’s defining techniques—the jump scare. The jump scare is one of the most effective techniques a filmmaker has in their arsenal ...

For anyone whose watched Netflix’s orginal show BoJack Horseman, there is one thing they can all agree on: it’s full of surprises. What started off as a tongue-in-cheek satire about celebrity culture ...

The year 2024 seems to have been the resurrection of dance, hyperpop and indie sleaze. All of this having been captained by the one and only Charli xcx who, with her neon green album Brat, has ...