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MoviesReviewWhen Emmett arrives at the house he has inherited after his mother’s death, the legacy that emerges is deeply unsettling, and brilliantly depicted This is a find. Writer-director Laurence Vannicelli’s follow-up to his little-seen debut Vera represents a classy, spare shard of quasi-horror so elevated it’s barely horror at all despite the deployment of a few supernatural bangs and whizzes. It’s more in the tradition of psychological thrillers from the old days that critics still pine for, such as Don’t Look Now (1973) or Obsession (1976), all teasing ambiguity and deep dives into the messier corners of lovers’ psyches.

Last weekend, Victoria Amelina and I discussed the Kremlin’s violations in Ukraine. Days later, she became their victim, says Nataliya Gumenyuk, the co-founder of the Reckoning Project Published: 3 Jul 2023 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKiipLOquMRopZqskaG2uq2MoKymnZ6uwqw%3D

The ObserverGeorge HarrisonAfter books on Lennon and McCartney, the author turns to the contradictory ‘quiet Beatle’ – whose acid tongue and sexual buccaneering coexisted with his mantras and prayer wheels George Harrison died on 29 November, 2001 after a four-year battle with cancer, aged 58. The 9/11 atrocities were only two months earlier but despite the continuous grim developments from the still-smouldering wreckage of New York’s World Trade Center and President George W Bush’s retaliatory “war on terror”, his passing leapt to the top of television news and into banner headlines.

IdahoA firefight between six US marshals and two boys and their dog began a movement founded on anti-government ideology. The internet age has spread its message wider Twenty-five years ago this week, in a remote corner of northern Idaho, the modern militia movement was born in a firefight. On the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, two weeks ago, observers could see from the presence of well-armed men in fatigues that that movement was still with us.

Australian Open 2023 This article is more than 11 months oldStefanos Tsitsipas reaches final after arm-wrestle with Karen KhachanovThis article is more than 11 months oldGreek world No 4 prevails 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3‘These are the moments I’ve been working hard for’To a sea of Greek flags and their holders chanting his name, next gen’s nearly man finally got over the line in an Australian Open semi-final. Since 2019 when, right here at Melbourne Park, Stefanos Tsitsipas upset Roger Federer en route to his first slam semi, he has made that tricky round four times.

Forbidden and hedonistic … Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette. Photograph: Channel Four Films/AllstarForbidden and hedonistic … Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette. Photograph: Channel Four Films/AllstarFilmFrom Gus Van Sant to Maryam Keshavarz, Terence Davies to Andrew Haigh, film-makers and writers recall the charged scenes that moved and inspired them – and even helped nudge them out of the closet The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandGus Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, To Die For, Milk

Lost in showbizBreastfeedingThe actor Alicia Silverstone is coming to the rescue of any woman who's looking for a better class of milk donorWhen we put celebrities in a box marked "entertainers", humanity loses. If we fail to see that someone's ability to play lead guitar or pretend to be someone else in fact qualifies them to be anything from a public heath expert to a nuclear scientist, then we don't just do ourselves a disservice.

Club cultureMusicWith wellness sanctuaries and ultra-inclusive hedonism, the kink scene has reinvented itself for a new era – but you still won’t get in wearing jeans Although public physical contact has not been a defining feature of the last couple of years, London’s sex clubs are experiencing a renaissance, thanks to a generational shift. Think: fewer key bowls and CEOs in expensive lingerie, more pioneering house DJs and art students in makeshift harnesses, as younger crowds drive demand for events that foreground inclusivity, individuality and queerness.

Olympic Games This article is more than 1 month oldBritish Olympian ‘received banned drugs’ in US, claim documentsThis article is more than 1 month oldAthletics Integrity Unit expected to charge athlete imminentlyUS court documents part of unsealed indictment in New YorkA British male Olympian is being investigated by anti-doping authorities after US court documents claimed he received banned drugs while in America during 2021. According to papers filed in New York, the athlete was supplied with performance enhancing drugs by Eric Lira, an American therapist who is facing 10 years in jail under the new Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, which has made such activity a criminal offence.