4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (559+ words) Why people are increasingly attracted to horoscopy, tarot and alternative spiritual practices in turbulent times I enjoyed the experience. The evening had been inspired by the algorithm, which declared that the Year of the Fire Horse would usher in luck…...

1+ week, 23+ min ago  (61+ words) Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette'The Monthly A biopic miniseries executive produced by Ryan Murphy offers a stylish if idealised 90s New York, but little insight into the famous couples influence before their fatal plane crash The Monthly is a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1032+ words) If I handed you a pencil and the prompt "alien abduction, you'd know exactly what to sketch: a flying saucer, a tractor beam, some immobilised yokel hoisted towards the stars. Maybe a dazed cow or upended sheep for good measure....

1+ week, 23+ min ago  (507+ words) When Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) meets his grandsons for the first time, it's behind a wire fence. The boys have just lost a parent and their father doesn't want him anywhere near them. "I'm very sorry for your loss," Royal…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (628+ words) It was an overtly mad endeavour because a playwright has an effortless command of the world she inhabits, whereas an archaeology of a distant past (coterminous with gleaming success) requires the miniaturisation of the given material, as well as the…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (1536+ words) Mass firings and a partisan editorial stance at The Washington Post under the ownership of Jeff Bezos have come as the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on journalism, culture and free expression " posing a threat to democracy itself Late…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1626+ words) Daniel Day-Lewis's commanding return in his son's film of trauma and abandonment, and the acceptance at the heart of Kirk Jones's biopic of a Tourette's campaigner A method actor who remains in character throughout a film shoot, his transmogrification from…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (786+ words) From Kurt's guitar to JFK's rocking chair, the remarkable collection of memorabilia amassed by the late billionaire Jim Irsay goes under the hammer Jim Irsay was an American billionaire who died alone and far from home in a Beverly Hills…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (108+ words) Cycles of life: "Pillion" and "Sir't'The Monthly Harry Lighton"s film of self-discovery among queer BDSM bikers, and "liver Laxe"s tale of a man"s search for his daughter in a rave community amid hints of a post-collapse world…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (148+ words) As the oddball new-wave band reforms to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Matthew Walker's documentary describes their unlikely ascent to fame "It was a different time," begins Reg Mombassa, his voice narrating a montage of him and his bandmates in their 1980s heyday....