Author: Emily Davis
The big Thunderbolts* plot twist shows Marvel wants them to save the MCU. Are they serious?
This article contains major spoilers, so do not read if you have not watched Thunderbolts*. There was always something deeply suspicious about that asterisk, and [more…]
‘The whole country is proud’: Chinese snooker fans hail Zhao Xintong triumph
Chain smoking under the fluorescent lights of a cavernous billiards hall in Beijing, Brother Yuan can’t stop smiling. The previous day, along with 150 million [more…]
Post your questions for Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles has been on our screens for almost three decades. After studying theatre in New York as a child, Stiles was cast as a [more…]
That’s me in the spotlight: Michael Shannon on swapping Hollywood for an REM covers band
Michael Shannon was a teenager when he first heard REM. “I was out at my cousin’s trailer; he lived in the country. He put Document [more…]
Billy Woods: Golliwog review – one of the most engrossing, unnerving records you’ll hear this year
Golliwog has the ambience of a horror movie: dissonant strings, like nails on a chalkboard, form the basis of the track Star87; agonised screams are [more…]
Lido Pimienta: La Belleza review – Gregorian chant meets dembow rhythm in a work of remarkable depth
Five years since her Grammy-nominated breakthrough record Miss Colombia, singer and producer Lido Pimienta has taken a radical shift in direction. On Miss Colombia, Pimienta [more…]
Trump and Starmer confirm ‘breakthrough’ US-UK trade deal
The UK and US have agreed a “breakthrough” trade deal slashing some of Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars, aluminium and steel and that the prime [more…]
Hospitals in England reducing staff and services as part of NHS ‘financial reset’
Hospitals in England are cutting staff, closing services and planning to ration care in order to make “eye-watering” savings demanded by NHS bosses. Rehabilitation centres [more…]
Taiwan faces similar threat to Europe in 1930s, president says
Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, has compared his nation to the European countries heading for conflict with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, in a punchy speech [more…]
‘The pope is Peruvian’: elation in country where pontiff served as bishop
The election of Pope Leo XIV has been celebrated across Latin America, where many hailed him as the second pontiff from the region, after his [more…]
