(Polydor) In this elegiac 17th solo album made with guests including Noel Gallagher, Weller contemplates mortality with sun-dappled ballads – but there’s still an experimental edgeAmong the tracks on Paul Weller’s 17th solo album, A Glimpse of You isn’t really a standout. It’s melodically pretty, but a bit slight; pleasant enough, but unlikely to elbow...

This account of Lilian and her four young children undertaking a dangerous journey from Guatemala to the US brings a human face to the migration crisisHeading for the US-Mexico border from Guatemala, single mum Lilian and her four children endure an arduous 3,000-mile journey, the perils of which are intimately captured in Danilo do Carmo and Jakob...

Xbox Series, PC; Ninja Theory/ Microsoft Stunning Icelandic landscapes merge with nightmarish hallucinations in this big-budget battle sequelAs the stench of rotting corpses fills the air, I hear the screams of my butchered kinsmen, and my lips begin to tremble. “You let them die,” a voice in my head accuses, as I crawl hopelessly towards the lifeless...

The actor on night terrors, Brideshead Revisited, nearly becoming a doctor and Starbucks in CobhamIf you were going to bake a Jane Asher cake that best summed you up, what would you bake and how would you decorate it? TopTramp Summing somebody up is a tall order. I do love ginger cake, particularly the dark, Jamaican ginger type. I would make it nice...

Sometimes a film, gig or sex-positive puppet show is so excruciating that awarding it one star just isn’t damning enough. How do writers who’ve written zero-star reviews feel about the worst shows they’ve ever seen now?It’s harder to write about something you love than something you hate. But what is often forgotten is that the axiom can loop back on...

‘Paintings are still around, people still go to museums,’ the actor has said, trying to sound positive about the future of cinema. But if you crunch the numbers, this isn’t reassuringSometimes there is nothing so depressing as reassurance. Seth Rogen is currently making a Larry Sanders-style comedy for Apple TV+ entitled The Studio, in which a bunch...