Springsteen’s epiphany; horror and wonder among the redwoods; a gruesome showdown in an Essex farmhouse; and more…

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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,

IN A DYSTOPIAN NEAR-FUTURE, SEES GAME SHOW CONTESTANTS PURSUED AND KILLED AS THEY CHASE A LIFE-CHANGING JACKPOT. SFX HUNTS DOWN DIRECTOR EDGAR WRIGHT AND STAR GLEN POWELL TO DISCUSS HOW TODAY’S WORLD HAS CAUGHT UP WITH STEPHEN KING’S ’80S NOVEL

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Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont