FilmThe titles often don’t come up till well into the movie on screen – sometimes it’s a device to flag structural oddness ahead
If movies didn’t need to be publicised in advance, audiences would be able to go into Fresh feeling entirely, well, fresh. They could spend the first half-hour savouring this wry take on the frustrations of modern dating, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan, without realising that the film was about to morph from Sleepless in Seattle into Saw.
Joe Biden This article is more than 9 months oldJoe Biden confuses All Blacks with Black and Tans during Ireland tripThis article is more than 9 months oldWhite House edits transcript after US president referred to military force rather than New Zealand rugby team
The White House has corrected a gaffe by Joe Biden that confused New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the British military force known as the Black and Tans that terrorised Ireland.
The ObserverPhilosophy booksReviewCognitive psychology has had little impact on our culture, but this intellectual manual makes a startCognitivism has become the dominant psychological system of our times. Its theories have swept aside Freudian mythology; its therapists, armed with treatment manuals, have taken over the NHS; its avant-gardists in the positive psychology movement have infiltrated the US military. Yet cognitive psychology has made curiously little cultural impact. Empirical, clinical and imaginatively narrow: as revolutionary intellectual movements go, it's rather boring.
Non-monogamous relationships can lead to a happier, more fulfilling relationship, a study found. Illustration: Joanna GniadyNon-monogamous relationships can lead to a happier, more fulfilling relationship, a study found. Illustration: Joanna GniadyDatingA new study says non-monogamous couples can actually be closer, even as critics of open relationships argue humans are unable to separate love and sex
Hugh McIntyre, a 26-year-old music writer, and Toph Allen, a 28-year-old epidemiologist, are in love and have an “amazing” relationship of two and a half years.
ReligionThe life of a 'sisterwife''We don't get very much actual sex'Maggi, who belongs to a Mississippi-based group of practising polygamists, wrote this account in an internet chatroom of her life as a "sisterwife" in one of the more extreme polygamist groupsWe all live in the same house. We have a bunk-bed double on the bottom and single on the top. Husband, first wife and the "ON" wife sleep on the bottom and the other two "
Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentDVD and video reviewsThe Linguini Incident: a Bowie re-release nobody needs to seeWith its stilted dialogue and static camerawork it’s hard to imagine how this 1991 film would have resurfaced had David Bowie not been in the cast Perhaps the most striking thing about David Bowie’s death last month was how meticulously crafted it seemed. In the days of grief and grief-policing that followed, critics pored over his final album Blackstar and claimed to find within it all manner of cryptic hints about the singer’s passing.
ThrillersReviewBoiling Point director Philip Barantini brings more clammy tension to a tale of a young man who becomes the target of a witch-hunt after a London bombing
For all of the breathless acclaim directed at Chicago-set kitchen drama The Bear, it was Philip Barantini’s Dalston-set equivalent Boiling Point from a year before that truly captured the heat and horror of working in a restaurant. Filmed in one continuous take, it was both technical triumph and masterclass in high-wire suspense, fumbling perhaps in its final overblown moments, but involving enough that by the end, you felt as exhausted as a pot washer ending a busy shift.
StageInterviewBill Pullman: ‘The term late bloomer sounds an awful lot like loser’Fiona SturgesThe Independence Day star landed his first major role in his 30s, but has since made up for lost time. Now he’s heading to the stage in a furious satire. He talks about family, fame and how Ibsen put him in a coma
Bill Pullman was 32 years old when he starred in his first film, 1986’s Ruthless People.
Country diaryScotlandCape Wrath, Sutherland: I felt my heart race and the hair on my neck prickle at this disembodied song, so loud, unexpectedWrath is from the old Norse hvarf, meaning turning point, so that’s what we did, altering course from west to south on reaching Robert Stevenson’s lighthouse, tramping down a crumbling road in bright sunshine before striking out across the boggy moor to work our way back to the sea.
Documentary filmsReviewThe off-hand moments from this 1970 documentary following Elvis Presley as he sets up shop in Las Vegas are the most illuminating
This 1970 documentary, directed by Denis Sanders, captures singer Elvis Presley in his late-baroque, macramé hip-belt stage as he first rehearses and then performs live in Las Vegas, a limited residency in the desert town that became the stuff of legend. The material, released before in slightly different versions, has been dusted off and digitally gussied up for a one-night-only engagement in cinemas nationwide.