Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise is back but this franchise is showing its age July 5, 2023 Barbie vs Oppenheimer may be the summer showdown everyone’s talking about, but one movie legend would like to remind you that he’s back. Despite some occasional headline-grabbing bouts of odd behaviour, Tom Cruise is one of the last true movie stars, someone who can get crowds to turn up based on his name alone. But [...]
SlowBurn review: Restaurant in a Walthamstow jeans factory is an unexpected joy July 5, 2023 Nothing says gentrification quite like a restaurant that pops up three times a week in a jeans factory in a commercial estate at the bleak end of Walthamstow. Blackhorse Road is one of those enclaves of London that town planners forgot about until a few years ago, during which time it has gone from a [...]
World’s fastest track car: £1m McMurtry Spéirling EV returns to Goodwood July 4, 2023 The Goodwood hillclimb record-breaker is entering production. Only 100 examples of the electric McMurtry Spéirling Pure will be made.
Rolls-Royce Spectre review: Driving the electric dream July 4, 2023 The Spectre offers the comfort and craftsmanship of a traditional Rolls-Royce, but with electric power. Is it the best EV in the world?
The Super-8 Years: A compact and worthwhile film July 4, 2023 Annie Ernaux ascended to the top of the literary world following her 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is best known to film fans as screenwriter of 2021 award winner Happening, an adaptation of her novel. These accolades come after decades of success as a writer, the beginnings of which are examined in this short [...]
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken review July 3, 2023 If you have children that haven’t stopped singing Part of Your World since seeing The Little Mermaid, prepare for more underwater obsession. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the folks behind Shrek and How To Train Your Dragon, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken has a lot going on beneath its awkward title. X-Men actor Lana Condor voices Ruby, [...]
WOW!house at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour review July 3, 2023 Sometimes your job as a writer is to critique, or nitpick – or at least to recommend improvements. At other times – and this should be done with a sigh after much internal questioning – it is to upbraid. Very rarely, your only duty is to praise and recommend – to add footfall and eyeballs [...]
Andaz Mayakoba is a near-perfect beach resort on the Mexican coast July 3, 2023 Playa del Carmen lies halfway between Cancun and Tulum, both geographically and spiritually. It’s not quite the tourist hellscape of the former, a haven for spring breakers and the kind of traveller who wears sports socks with sandals, but neither does it have the bohemian charm of the latter, which has positioned itself as the [...]
Italy holidays: Why Bergamo and Brescia are the Italian places we love this summer July 3, 2023 Italy holidays: Italy’s dual City of Cultures make a great break, says Sophie Ibbotson THE WEEKEND: In recent years, the UK has chosen Hull, Derry, and Coventry as its annual City of Culture. Bradford’s turn is next. The Italians seem to take things a little more seriously, and have awarded this year’s cultural crown to [...]
Scale up investor: Hiring trans women like me isn’t just right – it’s good for business July 3, 2023 Reece Tomlinson, founder of investment firm Saône Capital, on how investing in trans and non-binary people is good for business, as people from different backgrounds have different ideas and approaches “When you look at underrepresented founders as a whole, they’re actually the majority of founders,” says Reece Tomlinson, trans CEO and founder of the Saône [...]