TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Making Life on Earth: Attenborough\u2019s Greatest Adventure<\/p>\n
BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence This retrospective on one of David Attenborough\u2019s greatest pieces of TV is packed with brilliant anecdotes.
What our reviewer said Victoria Bobin\u2019s rollicking film is the story of a giant pop-culture moment, a gang of mates remembering how they sensed conditions were right to create a blockbuster masterpiece \u2013 if they were willing to flirt with failure and even death to get there.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Happy centenary, David! Attenborough\u2019s 100 most spectacular TV moments<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restAmandaland<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n Amandaland. Photograph: BBC\/Merman<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The return of the much-loved Motherland spin-off, focusing on delusional, narcissistic mum Amanda. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018Everyone knows an Amanda!\u2019 Joanna Lumley and Lucy Punch on the return of comedy smash, Amandaland<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026My Garden of a Thousand Bees<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n My Garden of a Thousand Bees. Photograph: Martin Dohm<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A gasp-inducing documentary about a man\u2019s love for the insects that bumble around his garden \u2026 and ended up changing his life. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Artist<\/p>\n MGM+<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence This period comedy, starring Mandy Patinkin as a Rhode Island robber baron, is a singular work of art. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Romeria<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Romeria. Photograph: QuimVives Elastica Films<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Carla Sim\u00f3n\u2019s distinctive drama in which a young woman arrives in a Spanish coastal city to meet the family of her dead father, who are hiding information about his life and death. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Director Carla Sim\u00f3n: \u2018I have feelings for Spanish culture and Catalan culture\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restOur Land<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Our Land.<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Documentary by Orban Wallace following right-to-roam campaigners as they offer bacchanalian antics and a heartfelt message in a wide-ranging exploration of the topic. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film<\/a><\/p>\n Kokuho<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Lee Sang-il\u2019s heartfelt kabuki drama spans 50 years following the bond and rivalry between two young men who play the rigorously observed female roles in the traditional art form. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Sheep Detectives<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Hugh Jackman plays a farmer in this Babe-style family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingAbouna<\/p>\n Mubi<\/p>\n Abouna. Photograph: Duo Films\/Allstar<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Chadian writer-director Mahamat Saleh Haroun\u2019s beautifully gentle and lucid film about two boys\u2019 forlorn attempt to find their father. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026Iran and the Revolution by Homa Katouzian<\/p>\n Reviewed by John Simpson<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A landmark new account of the 1979 revolution provides context for current events. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restThe Given World by Melissa Harrison<\/p>\n Reviewed by Alexandra Harris<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Six months in the life of a rural English village. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Solace House by Will Maclean<\/p>\n Reviewed by Sam Leith<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Nineties-set gothic extravaganza in which students are caught up in the mystery of a haunted house. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Lady C by Guy Cuthbertson<\/p>\n Reviewed by Blake Morrison<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A history of the social and cultural impact of DH Lawrence\u2019s controversial novel. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Nobody\u2019s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre<\/p>\n Reviewed by Emma Brockes<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Posthumously published memoir on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s crimes. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and Prince Andrew<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Squiggling melodies and quizzical distortion banish the winter gloom Dreijer brought to his band the Knife. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restAldous Harding: Train on the Island<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Lyrics about naked owls and eating rocks might be irksome to some \u2013 but there\u2019s no denying that the alt-rocker\u2019s fifth album is beguiling, tightly written and richly melodic. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Helen Charlston: A Poet\u2019s Love<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Schumann\u2019s Dichterliebe is at the heart of this disc from the mezzo-soprano and pianist Sholto Kynoch. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Ana Roxanne: Poem 1<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence \u200bEssaying a broken heart, the New Yorker puts her voice front and centre for her most accessible work yet.
What our reviewer said \u201cLucy Punch\u2019s portrayal of Amanda is mesmerisingly convincing. Lumley is also magnetic as her mother, Felicity.\u2019\u201d Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThere is something pleasantly bee-like about Dohrn\u2019s award-winning film. A leisurely thing, it drifts woozily around the photographer\u2019s garden, picking up facts here and there and storing them like pollen in little pouches on the backs of its thighs. \u201d Sarah Dempster<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt has a similar pugnacious whimsy, but with cold steel hidden in the folds of its grubby velvet gown.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cSim\u00f3n has an instinctive and almost miraculous way of just immersing herself within extended freewheeling family scenes \u2013 her camera moving unobtrusively in the group, like another teenager at the party, quietly noticing everything.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cRamblers are justified in keeping the pressure up and the take-home message is: opening up the glories of the countryside and nature itself to everyone is a universal good.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe emphasis is largely upon discipline and commitment in the service of art, a vocational self-immolation in which the transformation of pain into beauty is the whole point.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe great feelgood trick pulled off by this film is that the murder, involving a character we\u2019ve been encouraged to like and invest in emotionally \u2013 much more so than in traditional detective stories \u2013 doesn\u2019t get swamped with sadness and shock. The film scoots smartly past the death and brings us briskly on to the entertaining business of sheep-oriented crime detection.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThis movie has moments that linger in the mind: the boys running back from the cinema, the boys playing keepie-uppie in the street, the boys walking on their hands after looking for their father at the Chad-Cameroon border crossing, with all the insouciance of childhood, unable yet to comprehend the seriousness of what has happened to them.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe history of the Iranian revolution has been written many times, but I haven\u2019t found an account as clear and free of preconceptions as this one.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe small particularities are charged with a sense of cosmic change. This is concertedly a novel of, and for, an era of ecological crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s a great hotchpotch, working like mad to entertain and spook the reader. The 500-odd pages whip by.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cCuthbertson has been a diligent researcher, spending many hours trawling through archives and cuttings. He has even looked through the trial judge\u2019s copy of the book, with its highlighting of rude words.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cGiuffre\u2019s recollections of Prince Andrew, a man with whom she was allegedly forced to have sex three times, present him in an even more buffoonish and grotesque light.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cDreijer has created his own walled garden of psychedelia, conjuring the light and scent of a summer in bloom.\u201d Ben Beaumont-Thomas<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA melodically gifted singer-songwriter, music that\u2019s subtle but never bland; these are disarmingly straightforward pleasures that all the strangeness \u2013 mannered or otherwise \u2013 can\u2019t obscure.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cCharlston\u2019s voice flows like molten lava, every word crystal clear.\u201d Clive Paget<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cFor the first time, we hear Roxanne\u2019s lovely, wispy voice in lucid detail, as she contemplates loss and desire over slow and stripped-back compositions.\u201d Safi Bugel<\/p>\n