There’s plenty to still admire in Indy’s second outing but it remains an ungainly and, at times, culturally offensive adventureIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom begins with an action sequence that’s almost exactly 20 minutes long, starting with a show-stopping east-meets-west rendition of Anything Goes at a Shanghai nightclub in 1935 and ending in...

The British Press Photographers’ Association’s annual Assignments exhibition is back at the Bargehouse in London until 2 June. Curated by five leading industry figures, this year’s exhibition covers news stories from March 2023 through to the spring of 2024 Continue reading...

Photographer Dafydd Jones’s new book documents the upper crust of the Big Apple in an era of gaudy excess: doggy canapes, ladies who lunched, and a ‘mob-like’ real-estate mogulHer face is covered, but you can tell it’s Ivana Trump from her beehive. The picture was taken in 1990, at a fashion show in the gilded environs of New York hotel the Plaza. She...

The victims of Nigeria’s bloody civil war are given a voice in this tale of a man’s quest to find his estranged brother‘This war has not merely grown out of the dark desires of evil men who had set upon their Igbo neighbours in the north, killing and wreaking destruction,” thinks Kunle, the protagonist of Chigozie Obioma’s third novel The Road to the...

Glen Powell plays a mild-mannered professor posing as a contract killer to catch would-be criminals in this diverting noir comedy loosely based on a true storyFor this thoroughly entertaining comedy thriller, Richard Linklater finds the distinctive and weirdly uncomplicated register of sunny geniality that he so often gives us – when he’s not working...

This thriller about a successful lawyer with a beautiful family drags a bit – until things go bananas with prescription drugs and night terrorsEmma Averill (Vicky McClure) has everything. She’s married with two children, and is a compassionate, competent family lawyer. Her firm’s conference room looks out over St Paul’s Cathedral in London, but after...