OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

SARAH DITUM

“Between you and me …”

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,

Being an adult is… Great, because you don’t have to go to school – unless you want to. What are you worried about currently? I’m worried about everything at the moment – the power-hungry lunatics have

Dir Dean Puckett, UK 2025 On digital platforms Folk horror has been a thing for a long time, but it’s an over-used term these days. In film terms it appears to mean something heavily influenced by Wit