Death of a Unicorn film review: don’t deep this A24 comedy-horror April 4, 2025 Ever since it premiered at SXSW last month, Death Of A Unicorn has been generating buzz. Produced by studio du jour A24, who brought us offbeat classics like Heretic and Everything Everywhere All At Once, it is an interesting prospect. But at a time when riskier stories have struggled to find an audience, is it [...]
What we can all learn from dogging March 28, 2025 The best moment in a playwright’s life is when you see something and a play appears fully-formed in your head. That happened for me one warm night eight years ago, when I was walking home late after returning from seeing a play. I was living in Barnes, one of London’s poshest suburbs, and the word [...]
Eating Dave’s Hot Chicken Reaper Tenders: Why do we love spicy food? March 27, 2025 I feel lightheaded, short of breath and the room has started to spin. Intense waves of heat radiate from my mouth throughout my entire body. The pain is searing, like someone is holding an open flame to my tongue. After a couple of bites my throat starts to swell, my lips are raw, my face has [...]
Adolescence fans are discovering ‘unbearably tense’ Stephen Graham drama Boiling Point March 24, 2025 Adolescence, following one teenage boy’s relationship with women and incel culture, has taken the internet by storm, with millions of people tuning in to watch Stephen Graham’s incredible performance as the dad of a young boy accused of murder. But fans are pointing out that Adolescence isn’t the first time Stephen Graham has worked in [...]
New animated animal film Flow is worthy of the Oscars hype March 20, 2025 The biggest underdog story at this year’s Oscars was Flow, the independent Latvian animation that beat the might of Pixar, Aardman, and Dreamworks to take home Best Animated Feature. The film’s success saw a statue of the lead character, a black cat, built in Riga – but the film is a monument all on its [...]
Snow White review: Live action Disney is dated and out of touch March 20, 2025 After 15 years of churning through their back catalogue, Disney’s quest to make a live action version of every one of their hits has led them to the film that started it all. This new version of Snow White has been beset by controversy, but the headlines may be more entertaining than the film itself. Rachel [...]
Dear England review: This reboot takes England into extra time March 19, 2025 Here we go again, again. If making us relive the England men’s team repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory seemed cruel 18 months ago, that cruelty has only been compounded by the addition of yet of another tournament in which Gareth Southgate’s young team came tantalisingly close to lifting a first trophy in [...]
David Shrigley designs Non-League Day ticket for Whitehawk FC March 19, 2025 Cult artist David Shrigley has designed football tickets for Whitehawk FC as part of their efforts to attract new fans for Non-League Day this weekend. Shrigley, whose work has been nominated for the Turner Prize and fetched six-figure sums at auction, has created the screen-printed tickets as a souvenir for those attending Whitehawk’s fixture with [...]
Last Breath review: A gripping drama about the sea’s terrible power March 13, 2025 \Whether it’s the shark-infested waters of Jaws or the isolation of All Is Lost, the sea has often been one of cinema’s great obstacles. A theatrical remake of a documentary, Last Breath takes audiences beneath the waves to a new level of claustrophobia. The film follows three deep sea divers who work to maintain undersea [...]
Even John Malkovich can’t save this tepid satire Opus March 12, 2025 In Opus, the latest from cult studio A24, Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) stars as Ariel, a rookie music journalist who is mysteriously invited to a listening party for the new album by music icon Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich). The flamboyant star has been I’m seclusion for 30 years, inviting Ariel and a group of journalists [...]