Drink, depression, homelessness and football injuries: the road to the director’s first feature, Sweetheart, has been difficult. She even dumped one project when her feelings about her gender identity changedMarley Morrison has written and directed a k…
Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘Grange Hill was my best friend – it saved my life’
Ahead of a reissue of her band’s classic Beautiful Garbage, the Scottish frontwoman remembers her teenage passions, from the fiction that terrified her to the Edinburgh nightclub that set her freeAround 1980 this book was in the window of every booksho…
On DSCH: Shostakovich and Stevenson/Igor Levit | Andrew Clements’s classical album of the week
Igor Levit(Sony Classical, three CDs)Pairing Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH with Shostakovich’s equally epic 24 Preludes is a unique combination of rarity and virtuosityTwo years ago, Igor Levit devoted a recital at the Wigmore Hall to Ronald Stevenso…
The Lost Leonardo: has a new film solved the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting?
Is the $450m Salvator Mundi a fake? This film – featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers and a secretive superyacht – may finally settle the great da Vinci controversyIt is almost exactly 10 years since Salvator Mundi was unveiled,…
Proms Festival Orchestra/ Wigglesworth review – jubilant one-off
Royal Albert Hall, LondonA jubilant and light-on-its-feet performance of Mahler’s monumental 5th symphony made this Prom an emotionally charged occasion‘There won’t be a dry eye anywhere, certainly not on stage,” said one of the musicians before this, …
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Big Daddy’s birthday party still blazes
Curve, LeicesterAn imaginative staging of Tennessee Williams’ classic foregrounds the southern drama’s roots in Greek tragedyOne of the catchiest titles in the theatrical canon will always draw audiences to Tennessee Williams’ 1955 play set during a ca…
The 30 best mobster movies – ranked!
Ahead of the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark hitting cinemas, here are 30 organised crime flicks you must see before you sleep with the fishesOur criteria here is films featuring actual mobsters and the organised crime milieu – as opposed to…
Berlin’s bizarre new museum: a Prussian palace rebuilt for €680m
A cross between a Disneyland castle and a chilling concrete block, the Humboldt Forum is set to teach visitors about Germany’s colonial era. But is the past being examined – or exalted?A museum gift shop has never been such an ideological battleground….
Don’t stay another day: why TV doesn’t need a 24 revival
Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer was a mainstay of the golden age of television, but reboots of the franchise have been witless. Worse still, there’s now talk of anotherIn two months, 24 will be 20 years old. This presents the world with two options. The…
Low: Hey What review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
(Sub Pop)The veteran group continue the scorched digital manipulations of 2018 masterpiece Double Negative, but their vocals are left pristine and beautifulLow seemed a singular band from the outset. They were a married, practising Mormon couple, devot…