Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn is a good directorial fit for the humour and freaky violence of DC’s bad-guy jamboree DC’s new Suicide Squad movie announces itself as different from the coolly received first film from 2016 simply by adding “The” t…
Ancient Gilgamesh tablet seized from Hobby Lobby by US authorities
The craft store had acquired the 3,600-year-old artefact for its Bible museum, but court says it had been smuggled and should be returned to IraqA rare and ancient tablet showing part of the epic of Gilgamesh, which had been acquired by Christian arts …
Have you cried with despair in public? There is nothing braver or better | Adrian Chiles
It’s great to see men such as Tom Daley sobbing in victory – and the gold standard for emotional articulacy is surely showing your sadnessI am all for men crying; I do a lot of it myself. If we leave onions out of it, there are only two kinds of crying…
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review – devastating exposé of showbiz abuse
Luchino Visconti emerges badly from this desperately sad documentary about the exploitation of his Death in Venice child star Björn AndrésenThis documentary tells us how the most beautiful boy in the world became its saddest man, his life damaged by th…
Abramovich was not ‘directed’ to buy Chelsea FC by Putin, court hears
Author accused of repeating ‘lazy inaccuracies’ about businessman’s role in Russian politics and societyRoman Abramovich’s lawyer said it was defamatory to describe the businessman as having “a corrupt relationship” with the Russian president, Vladimir…
‘This was Black Camelot’: looking back on Obama’s journey to the top
In a dense new docuseries, the personal and political journey of Barack Obama is explored along with the difficult tightrope he was forced to walkThe date was 10 February 2007 and the air was cold. Barack Obama, a US senator without deep political expe…
Welsh slate landscape becomes UK’s newest world heritage site
Landscape surrounding Snowdonia in Gwynedd is 32nd site in UK to get prestigious global statusThe slate landscape of north-west Wales, said to have “roofed the 19th century world” as its quarries exported slate across the globe, has become the UK’s new…
A young Mexican mourns his teenage cousin: Luis Antonio Rojas’s best photograph
‘Children have to deal with the fallout of the drug trade. They are the ones who can’t walk to their school in safety, who have to train to use a gun’In the mountains of Guerrero in south-west Mexico, there is a small town called Alcozacán. Violence is…
Top 10 stories about bored teenagers | John Patrick McHugh
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger capture the restless ennui and dangerous passions of the do-nothing years before adulthood sets in Returning to carefree adolescence might sound like an exciting and sexy proposition – parties, kissing, no hangov…
Settlers review – audacious sci-fi western of frontier pioneers on Mars
Wyatt Rockefeller’s Martian-set drama about a family living a lie is a quietly impressive piece of workIndependent film-makers working on their debuts usually have a tough time getting the money together, mastering the art of networking and finding inf…