Reviews

If you’re looking to truly get away from it all when travel reopens, one of these dreamy private islands might fit the bill. Drenched in sunshine and surrounded by azure waters, these Robinson Crusoe-esque tropical retreats, from Belize to Australia, are an ideal base to let your cares slip away. Little Harvest Caye is a […]

On the festering streets of Old London, rookie cop Ash Harper chases down Verona, a fugitive who has stolen a valuable commodity. Seemingly abandoned as the climate crisis intensified, the London we know today has become a literal underworld; the only structures left intact are the enormous pillars that hold up the Commonworld, a network […]

In the new Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls, Ed Helms and Jana Schmieding play best friends Nathan and Reagan, who grew up together in the titular northeast town named for his ancestor who famously brokered peace with her ancestors in the Minishonka Nation. The pair are inseparable, but they’ve lived very different lives: privilege for him, […]

In a district of Lagos, Nigeria’s megacity, a group of teenagers wade through a mass of plastic bottles, food containers and bags that have blocked a waterway. Wearing gloves and masks, they pick up the discarded plastic and drop them into refuse bags. Their aim is to enable water to flow around the waterway that […]

Looking through a rack of colourful evening gowns, celebrity stylist Cristina Ehrlich pulls out a shiny black and chrome frock she describes as a classic red carpet look. “The actual design of the dress is very classic and simple,” Ehrlich says. “This is the perfect kind of dress for an evening like the Academy Awards […]

San Antonio Zoo in Texas has started work on a $1.4million new jaguar enclosure that features a reinforced see-through walkway, allowing park-goers unimpeded views of the big cats from below. The zoo described the unique ‘catwalk’ as a ‘world first’, with an opening date set for this fall. Overland Partners, the architecture firm that designed […]

Here’s a horror flick that wants to have its cake and eat it: combining a well-intentioned drama about teenage mental illness with a lurid potboiler. Director Castille Landon seems to be wagging her finger at films containing damaging stereotypes of mental health, while telling her own sensational and lurid story. In Florida, a high-schooler with […]

With lockdown restrictions beginning to lift, travel is on everyone’s minds again – albeit largely domestically for the time being. Tripadvisor site data shows that the number of travellers in the UK searching for British staycations this month has increased by 384 per cent compared with the first week of January – and it’s Torquay […]

When governments around Europe told people to create a “bubble” to limit their social contacts during the COVID-19 pandemic, this was probably not what they had in mind. Alain Verschueren, a Belgian artist and social worker, has been strolling through the capital Brussels wearing a “portable oasis” – a plexiglass mini-greenhouse which rests on his […]