Robert Hutton on Cinema SAM TAYLOR/NATIONAL THEATRE ● ...

Lives and how to live them

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

FROM THE START, SIGOURNEY WEAVER HAS DEFIED CATEGORISATION AND EXPLODED EXPECTATIONS. AS THE QUEEN OF SCI-FI RETURNS IN AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH , WE SPEAK TO HER ABOUT A SINGULAR LEGACY

Director James Mangold on his Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown

2025 has been a breakthrough year for soul gospel sensations ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS . A major new album, the patronage of David Byrne and ecstatic live shows have expanded their base beyond West Point, Mississippi to the global stage. Catching up with the Southern matriarch, her husband, daughters and goddaughter in Nashville, Stephen Deusner hears how their mission to spread joy to their audiences is the culmination of a lifelong dream. “I have to smile and tell God thank you because He could have chosen anybody to do this.”