Emilia Pérez shows early promise in Oscars race as Academy releases shortlists in 10 categories
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) released shortlists for 10 of its award categories including best international feature and best song on
Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty
The near transcendentally awful cover art of this 38-track compilation, released with little fanfare this week, will already be familiar to hardcore Aphex Twin fans.
‘To me, to uzi’: why Paul Chuckle as a gangster isn’t such a dramatic career change
Next year a British gangster film will be released, entitled Fall to the Top. Its plot concerns a frustrated labourer who becomes a drug dealer
The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024
10. Ezra Feinberg – Soft Power Feinberg emerged about 20 years ago as the leading member of a San Francisco psych rock band called Citay.
Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 3 – The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest, a British, American and Polish production directed by Jonathan Glazer, begins with a scene of bucolic bliss: a German-speaking family picnicking
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – an unmissable, ingenious Christmas treat
Forget Tom Cruise riding his motorbike off a cliff in Mission: Impossible. Wallace and Gromit are on a comfy narrowboat teetering on the edge of
Pollution exposure linked to mental health hospital admissions, says study
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased risk of hospital admission for mental illness, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.
Mudryk mystery deepens as failed drugs test threatens to ruin career
People who come across Mykhailo Mudryk often sense a distance. Intentionally or not, mystery attaches itself to the shy young man who caused such excitement
Canada’s turmoil is harbinger of diplomatic havoc in second Trump term
Justin Trudeau’s political future has been thrown into doubt by the shock resignation of his own deputy, as Canada’s prime minister faces plummeting popularity and
Avanti West Coast workers to strike on New Year’s Eve
Workers on Avanti West Coast will go on strike on New Year’s Eve after rejecting a deal designed to resolve an ongoing dispute over rest