OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

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Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s myth

A sweeping six-part series filmed over four years in a single, breathtaking Zambian river valley, Kingdom is set to be your new Sunday-night must-watch. This new landmark BBC nature documentary follow

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

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,