The 'Special One' has
finally cracked
After comparing his players to third-rate eggs, José Mourinho has walked away from the Chelsea 'omelette'.
Not seeing the wood for the family trees
As the BBC’s celebrity-genes show Who Do You Think You Are? returns, why are people so keen to define themselves biologically?
Keeping it unreal
Sugarhouse, a British gangsta thriller about yoof, drugs and street life, is a cartoon-like portrayal of social inequality.
An irritating truth
The Simpsons Movie, in ridiculing greens while defending the Everyman who’s under attack everywhere else, is the sharpest satire around.
‘MY PAIN’, by the Duchess of Pork
Celebrity therapist Pamela Connolly turns psychoanalysis into light entertainment on Channel 4's Shrink Rap. This week: Fergie.
Must-reads from the past week
The atrocity exhibition
Hostel Part II and other ‘torture porn’ flicks are not nearly as scary or nihilistic as the grindhouse movies of old.
Wimbledon: sporting methadone
With no football on, footie fans have become the equivalent of tramps looking for discarded cigarette butts. Some are even turning to tennis.
Skinheads: the forebears of New Britain?
This is England is a humane and hilarious portrait of a lazy Eighties summer, until it tries to turn skins into models of multiculturalism.
The excruciating comedy of self-censorship
Mitchell and Webb return to mine the gap between inner doubt and public appearance in Peep Show.
A film about sleep that makes you yawn
In exploring the weird world of the subconcious, Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep snoozes on plot and character.
