Author: Emily Davis
Peter Perrett: The Cleansing review – a late-career triumph that dances in the face of death
Peter Perrett’s third solo album opens with a track called I Wanna Go With Dignity. You could suggest that’s par for the course: a certain [more…]
EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products
The EU has launched formal proceedings against the Chinese shopping website Temu amid concerns it is failing to halt the sale of illegal products online. [more…]
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review – fascinating tribute undermined by bombast
‘You’ve got me?” splutters Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) in the 1978 Superman: The Movie, after her caped saviour (Christopher Reeve) scoops her up in his [more…]
Fishing lines, mobile phones and Wirral wind: the oddly harmonious music of Ex-Easter Island Head
For most bands, the main perk of living in a slightly rundown mansion-cum-artistic community on the city’s edge would be having licence to make an [more…]
Heretic review – religious horror with a suave, dapper and evil Hugh Grant
The remarkable second act of Hugh Grant’s career continues … or maybe third act, if we include the earlier period in which he appeared to [more…]
Jack Draper into Paris last 16 with hard-fought win over world No 6 Taylor Fritz
The two previous times Jack Draper and Taylor Fritz faced each other this year, their encounters ended in similar ways. Although so little separated them [more…]
UN rules forcible sterilizations of women in Peru ‘crime against humanity’
A UN committee has urged Peru to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a “crime [more…]
Scientists discover oldest ever giant tadpole fossil in Argentina
Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160m years ago. The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the [more…]
Time Cut review – tinny time-travel Netflix slasher offers too much deja vu
The triumphant return of the slasher movie, a subgenre that had been mostly dead and buried for far too long, arrived with key caveats. Those [more…]
‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all
When Danielle Keaton was seven, her homework was to open her eyes as wide as possible and stare. She had just secured a role in [more…]
