Author: Emily Davis
ATP Finals face up to life without big three for first time since 2001
Novak Djokovic has announced his withdrawal from ATP Finals due to an unspecified injury, marking the end of his 2024 season. Djokovic pulling out means [more…]
‘You got it or you didn’t’: the sweat, smoke and sonic excess of the indie scene pre-Britpop
A while back, photographer Joe Dilworth found himself talking to the drummer in a currently successful British rock band. He asked how they got started, [more…]
Kneecap leads nominations for British independent film awards
Belfast-set rap comedy Kneecap has emerged as the frontrunner in the British independent film awards, after it picked up 14 nominations to lead the field [more…]
Saudi oil and betting firms? Women’s football must not lose its moral compass | Suzanne Wrack
Women’s football, the business, is on the rise. There will be ups and downs, anomalies and backwards steps, but the overall trajectory is upwards. In [more…]
Lulu review – remarkable farewell tour ends one of pop’s strangest journeys
It has, says Lulu, been “hard to put all the moments together” in her two-hour farewell show. One can understand why that might have proved [more…]
Bookworm review – father-daughter heartwarmer casts a spell on failed magician Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood is reunited with the rugged New Zealand landscape in this father-daughter comedy, a gentle heartwarmer with a quirky sense of humour. It makes [more…]
‘Everybody told me not to do it’: can a movie shift a presidential election?
Donald Trump was an angry man. “It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try [more…]
Netflix adapts Pedro Páramo, the great Mexican novel that inspired Márquez
“I came to Comala because I was told that my father lived here, a certain Pedro Páramo.” Many Mexicans know the first sentence of Juan [more…]
World watches with bated breath as US votes for Harris or Trump
From Brazil to Ireland and Germany to the Caribbean, this year’s knife-edge – and more than usually momentous – US presidential vote will be watched [more…]
Tropical Storm Rafael triggers hurricane warning for Cayman Islands
Forecasters posted a hurricane warning in the Caribbean on Monday afternoon after a late-season disturbance south of Cuba strengthened into Tropical Storm Rafael and set [more…]
