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Dominic Sandbrook’s new literary podcast struggles with forced chemistry

In Good Luck. Have Fun. Don’t Die, Sam Rockwell and Gore Verbinski poke fun at the young’s tech addiction - without realising that older generations are even worse

The Wellcome Sanger – half academic research institute, half industrial laboratory – is perfectly positioned to produce socially useful applications for discoveries

The former president made some comments about extraterrestrial life on a podcast and a lot of people got very excited for all the wrong reasons

Taxi Driver is 50 years old but its main character’s sexless white supremacy makes it more relevant than ever.

By ducking tough questions about Gaza at its opening press conference, the Berlin Film Festival has enraged film-makers, signalled its own irrelevance… and put genocide in the headlines

A new documentary reminds us of what a consummate politician he was - and how much his achievements are tarnished by Iraq

The BBC documentary series shows that when the police fail, survivors become the last line of defence

Emerald Fennell’s third film is far from a well-behaved literary adaptation, but it's thoroughly enjoyable

Jack Thorne has followed Adolescence with another triumphant and troubling piece of work

Chronovisor, Bowels of Hell and Variations on a Theme stand out at the Rotterdam Film Festival

The Old Vic’s elegant new production of Arcadia understands the power of the late playwright’s words

The Saltburn director ropes in Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to give a bleak classic the Bridgerton treatment

Smoking and drinking might be bad for the health, but sitting around with people who see the world differently can have profoundly beneficial effects

How a genuinely old dialect word became part of a made-up East Anglian pub game

How the creator of Peanuts created humour from loneliness and sadness

The former iCarly actor’s debut novel, Half His Age, rewrites the story of an age-gap relationship in crude, embarrassing, brilliant style

An icon’s death marks the end of the era of brilliant individuals who lived like deities

What happens to real women when men get used to girlfriends they can design and silence?

With the classics now available without pops and clicks, today’s musicians are engaged in the unequal task of battling the past

The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstein

The great Dane who ignored a teacher’s instructions to throw her paintbox into the sea

A narcissistic trend is teaching young men the worst lesson women were ever taught: your appearance is everything

The Baftas are coming. The Oscars are next. And yet again, they’ll reward hopelessly middlebrow films that honour the ruling ideas of the ruling class

Slovenia is obsessed with strapping on skis and flying into the void – and they’re expecting to be in the medals at the Winter Olympics

The actor talks gangsters from New Jersey to Washington DC – and why he feels ‘sick’ about the state of his country

Going out every night, dancing around the flat listening to Bad Bunny, the cinema – none of it does any good. Perhaps the secret to dealing with seasonal misery is just to lean into it

The Puerto Rican’s halftime show appearance riled MAGA – but impressed everyone else

Kubrick made elite depravity look operatic. The Epstein files show the real thing as vile and vacuous

The Chronology of Water is gruelling and honest – and Imogen Poots has never been better

MAGA opponents Bad Bunny and Green Day will provide the entertainment for the NFL’s big game - and the president is staying away