This new programme marking the First World War centenary is underdeveloped and emotionally underpowered

The female-led DC film will begin shooting in January 2019

It's a modest, sometimes maudlin family drama about chancers on the margins. What makes it such an enrapturing experience is the tenderness, humour, and detail

Windy conditions reportedly blew a wooden sign onto the comedian's head

Robin Hood is not the first folk hero to be given a super-powered makeover onscreen. In last year's 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword', whoever was worthy to wield Excalibur was also blessed with its magical abilities, says Clarisse Loughrey

The Atlanta-based group boasts work by roughly 160 artists of colour and a string of deals with major US museums hints at a vital shift in the art world Through the 1960s and 1970s, Purvis Young, a self-taught artist from Miami, roamed the inner city streets of Overtown, scouring for cardboard, wooden crates and secondhand doors to use as canvas for his expressive paintings. He learned the chops of art history – from Rembrandt to Van Gogh – through library books. He was often called an

The later years, from 1965 to 2005, of an irreverent philanderer, whose rich, phrase-making novels remained thinly veiled versions of his personal life When the

A ballot system will be in place

Festival announced four headliners in one go rather than tease announcements one by one

It will take place in Richfield Park and Bramham Park over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

From its opening scenes, Valve’s pioneering sci-fi horror game reinvented storytelling and universe building – what made it such a terrifying success? Most action video games begin with an explosion. Half-Life begins with a commute. A monorail carriage slowly transports everyman scientist Gordon Freeman to his new job at a remote science facility, Black Mesa. In the background, a computerised female voice issues safety information, while through the windows we see tableaux of life at the institution: weird robotic machines, bespectacled scientists, a security guard desperately banging on a sealed door. It was the first hint that this new game from fledgling Seattle-based developer Valve was going to be something interesting and unusual. The brilliance of Half-Life begins with its immersive storytelling. The opening accustoms us to the Black Mesa research facility, tells us a little about Freeman’s role and sets up the narrative universe – all without leaving his perspective. As you enter the facility, fellow scientists chat to Freeman about a forthcoming experiment, voicing concerns and discussing trivial details. You can stand and listen or just wander off. In this way, Half-Life is naturalistic, which was a revelation in 1998. The lack of cinematic cutaway scenes showed great faith in the world and the player, and deepened your relationship with the environment and the protagonist. The message is simple: you’re trapped here too.

The rapper claims people were paid to throw beer and water at him throughout the show

'This level of relentless abuse should not be tolerated in any walk of life'

'Time to really get this party started!'

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Mad Men are series that are riddled with many hidden meanings and theories – why else are we so transfixed by them? Of course, Game of Thrones is about climate change.

Benita Suchodrev spent two days in the Lancashire seaside resort, pointing her camera at its tourists and townsfolk, at the tattoo parlours, amusement arcades and the iconic Tower

A psychotherapist questions whether she would have sought gender transition in the 80s. Plus: an art-themed task on The Apprentice Growing up in the 1980s, the psychotherapist, author and married mother-of-two Stella O’Malley was convinced that she should have been born a boy. But would she have sought gender transition – as a growing proportion of kids are now doing (the number of young people referred to the NHS’s gender identity service over the past nine years has risen from 97 in 2009 to 2,519 in the year to April) – if she had had the chance back then? In this film, she talks with children, parents and academics about the issue.

With jams, live gigs and proper recording sessions, Britain’s prisons are rocking – thanks to InHouse Records, the label aiming to help convicts climb up the charts Aaron O’Mara is sitting in a studio with a guitar on his lap and keyboards and drum machines all around him. “Break,” he says, referring to the song he is about to play, “is all about my past, which featured a lot of substance misuse. Now everything is looking up, it feels like I’m finally catching my break.” The 25-year-old, who recently finished a 10-month stretch behind bars, strums his guitar and launches into the heartfelt ballad. It swings between regret, depression and hope. It’s an apt theme for his debut single, which will be released next year. O’Mara, a chef, is one of 15 ex-prisoners and 80 current inmates working with a label called

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It has its moments, but overall the series finale had many irrelevant passages in need of cutting out

Pompeo says Caucasian people must take responsibility because they "created the problem"

The English actor thinks it's a 'terrible shame' that Allen's movie was taken off the calendar after the director was accused of sexual assault by his daughter Dylan Farrow

Newly discovered fragments of an ancient text reveal an unusual strategy for dealing with an out-of-control leaderA new bit of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the world’s oldest literary text,

The former first lady’s autobiography has been warmly reviewed and is No 2 in the UK charts – outsold only by David Walliams Michelle Obama’s Becoming sold almost nine copies per second on its first day on sale in North America to become the fastest-selling book of the year so far, while in the UK, the memoir is close to the top of the book charts. Published last Tuesday, the former first lady’s autobiography has been warmly greeted by both the media and the public. The

Pop bubbles, play pool, become a neighbourhood god, a viking hero, or start a craft beer empire in 2018’s best new mobile games for iPhone and Android.

The 12-page bundle documents Rowling's application for a teaching job at Leith Academy in Edinburgh

From Matt Damon to Taron Egerton

He’s played baddies in everything from Bond to Beverly Hills Cop. Now he’s tackling the disgraced movie mogul in a self-penned play. The actor-playwright explains why theatre is dying out – along with his enemies’ reputations

Broadcaster says large cuts will have to be made if nothing changes when subsidy ends

Pseudonymous author was charged under law that makes it an ‘especially serious’ crime to sell more than 5,000 copies of a work classed as pornographic Free-speech campaigners have slammed China’s “flagrant disregard for fundamental human rights” after the author of a gay erotic novel was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for producing and selling pornographic materials. The author, who writes under the pseudonym Tianyi and is from eastern China’s Anhui province, was

Podcast reveals Carrie’s husband was to have early fatal heart attack, so remainder of proposed movie was mostly about mourning Fresh details of the third Sex and the City film – on ice after

After our reading of Endless Night and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the author of Hercule Poirot’s authorised new adventures is joining us at

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This CGI-heavy reboot steals ideas from other films but only gives back a cast of big hitters, including Ben Mendelsohn The actor Taron Egerton is doing what sociologists might call a “reverse Kingsman” with this prequel-reboot of the Robin Hood myth. His Robin of Loxley is an athletic young Nottingham nobleman who makes common cause with the downtrodden; he becomes their outlaw action hero, sickened by their suffering and also incidentally by the crusader war he was forced to fight very much against his will, having received a rather quaint “draft” notice in ye olde lettering. He’s a Robin with proto-modern sensibilities. Robin comes back from this foreign horror to find his property looted and the people oppressed, and conceives a new righteous desire to hit back at the sneery tyrants of church and state. This bloated, featureless, CGI-heavy movie is not so much stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, as stealing from Guy Ritchie, Batman, Two-Face and a few others – and not giving back all that much to the audience. There are one or two revisionist ideas here: chiefly, suggesting that villainy could be connected with child abuse. That thought is however raised merely as the pretext for a lurid and gloating threat of violence: another moment of misjudgment among many. It is also relatively unusual to see a young beardless Robin-before-Robin hero. Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe were all more mature Robins in their ways, and so certainly was Sean Connery as the older outlaw in Richard Lester’s silver-years reimagining, Robin and Marian. If Egerton resembles any predecessor it is the sleek and foxy Loxley in the Walt Disney animation of 1973, although with less depth and nuance.

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Archaeologists unearth a colourful Roman fresco of Leda and the Swan in Pompeii.

Christmas is about to get a whole lot busier

The director also criticised Bill Clinton, saying he 'killed the Democratic Party'

From Janelle Monáe to Tilda Swinton, unconventional women are having a moment. In an age threatened by groupthink and strongman politics, they provide an essential antidote

'These are not people you can deal with. You cannot be bipartisan with a criminal'

'I think you are very brave for going in the jungle,' Joseph Hughes wrote

As re-imagined here, Robin of Loxley seems partly like a medieval version of Bruce Wayne with a bow and arrow – and partly like a delinquent teen gang member in a hoodie

Lynch finished third in the 27th series of the US competition

'Anyone who knows about Barry Allen knows he may arrive late, very late, but once he gets there, it's all solved'

'I am looking forward to meeting as many children and young people as I can'

He claims the viral movement has made him question his past behaviour

'It's such an unusual circumstance to do this... but I think in this situation there were so many factors'

A collection of Pet Shop Boys lyrics shows off their singer’s erudition and wit We know surprisingly little about the inner workings of Neil Tennant, singer of Pet Shop Boys. Instantly recognisable, even without one of the band’s designer hats, he nonetheless remains a cypher: political, but not sloganeering; an almost absurdly stiff-upper-lipped, Earl Grey sort of pop star – at least in public. We all know the hits, and why they’re good: this son of Newcastle is, among other things, a noted chronicler of London life (West End Girls, which takes cues from both Grandmaster Flash and TS Eliot), of the rampant excess of the 1980s (Opportunities) and the complexities of relationships, gay, straight and non-sexual. He’s especially good on the drama in the everyday (Suburbia), and lapsed Catholicism (It’s a Sin).

'I don't sense that Jesse was really ever happy'

Martin appears to have made the assumption that historical writing should be dry and clinical, but fans will likely be left frustrated with this extensive, exhaustive history of the Targaryen family and their dragons

The Long Night takes place 5,000 years before Game of Thrones

It'll be the AMC show's final outing of 2018

New book covers House Targaryen family tree and predates A Song of Ice and Fire by 300 years

'Please remember, with great power, there must also come great responsibility'

'Last but not least, I want to thank me for believing in me'

The New York resident allegedly 'participated in multiple acts of violence'

Clarisse Loughrey visits the set of Sony Pictures' sequel to (and soft reboot of) 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' to learn what's changed

It was the chill-out classic that beguiled the 90s – and it all started in a 50p bargain bin in Ambleside A schoolfriend suggested Andy and I meet, so he came up to my attic in my parents’ house. I was lying on a beanbag and a bit stoned when he walked in, all 6ft 8 of him. The ceiling was low anyway, so I thought I was hallucinating, but we clicked. After we left university we DJ-ed together for a little club night in London, called Captain Sensual at the Helm of the Groove Armada.

Matthew Rhys explains why he speaks only Welsh to his American-born son, two.