Life in plastic

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

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

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IS THE FIRST ONE TO SAY ...

For anyone who came of age in the glow of a Noughties laptop screen, Kaya Scodelario defined our teenage years. As Effy Stonem in Skins, she had main character energy long before the term existed; the

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

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,