Oct 14, 2024 · Jesse Eisenberg’s second feature film, A Real Pain, creates a meditative yet powerful approach to grief and generational trauma. Sometimes it’s hard to wonder what true pain and loss are in our current world. Sure, we may feel things, but quite quickly we realise how dysfunctional our emotions are in everyday life.

Oct 24, 2024 · The Odyssey is often thought of as a bit of a slog. The sort of book people think they know but never actually read. Fry challenges that. His Odyssey is not a straight retelling of Homer’s poem, nor a work through which Homer’s voice echoes and intertwines with another poet’s imagination, like Walcott’s Omeros.It is a continuation of his previous retellings of Greek myth and legend ...

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Dec 16, 2024 · Taylor Swift: Eras Tour, Wembley Stadium, London, 15/08/2024. When Taylor Swift played the opening bars of ‘Everything Has Changed’, the crowd sensed something extraordinary was about to unfold. After the first verse, she paused to announce, “Ed Sheeran is here.” Wembley erupted in a cacophony so intense it wasn’t just heard—it was felt, a vibration coursing through every chest.

Oct 30, 2024 · English band Bastille have released their fifth LP: & is an ambitious experiment of sound and storytelling. The rich 14-track collection centres around both fictional and historical individuals, including the biblical Eve, Narcissus from classical mythology and impressionist painter Edvard Munch, among other lesser-known figures like the Chinese pirate Zheng Yi Sao.

Jan 21, 2023 · The signature The National-esque guitar riffs constellating the background of the frontman’s warm yet distraught voice give a hint of hope. Perhaps it is because Beringer’s other half Besser co-wrote it, or perhaps it is because The National found their long lost sound and personality again, but ‘Tropic Morning News’ signifies a …

Sep 8, 2024 · Rory Clements’ latest spy thriller in the Tom Wilde series delivers everything and does not disappoint on a single front. Okay, so I might be a little late to the party with this one.

Aug 22, 2020 · The first novel of retired wildlife biologist, Delia Owens had rather low expectations by publishers. Within a year and a half, Where the Crawdads Sing had topped the Sunday Times bestsellers list, sold over four million copies, and earned Reese Witherspoon’s stamp of approval, as she added it to her acclaimed book club and with her …

May 6, 2024 · For many of us Future Nostalgia, an album overflowing with retro-futurist disco-inspired bangers, was the soundtrack to our 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.Dua Lipa has established herself as the queen of nu-disco and now, four years later, she returns with the follow-up, her third studio album, Radical Optimism.Rather than take the safe option of sticking with the same winning formula, Lipa has ...