Film blogFilmWhy I'd like to be … Matt Dillon in The OutsidersDallas Winston, Dillon's wrong-side-of-the-tracks rebel, is a shirtless man of his word, a fearless social climber and, in the right circumstances, the world's wisest manAs a Muslim growing up in an asbestos-ridden council estate in Fulham, south-west London, seeing all the posh houses from our third-floor balcony, heroes were hard to find. Until I saw Matt Dillon in The Outsiders.
TheatreReviewOlivier, London"Who here has ever been to jail?" asks the eponymous hero of this frenetic musical. It is not a question often asked of National Theatre audiences, but it is indicative of a show that, whatever its flaws, joyfully breaks down conventional barriers between stage and auditorium, and joins passion and politics to the pounding music of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
We are in Lagos in 1978 watching the final concert at the Shrine by Fela, legendary creator of Afrobeat.
The ObserverLife and styleGetting away with murderIt was the savage killing that gripped America - the six-year-old beauty queen found strangled in her parents' basement, a bizarre ransom note left on the stairs and an extraordinary cast of suspects. But 10 years after the death of JonBenet Ramsey, her killer remains at large. Gaby Wood travels to Colorado to meet the investigators still trying to solve one of the most notorious murders of the 20th centuryThe house on 15th Street isn't quite the house it used to be.
TelevisionInterview‘Good luck with your horse opera!’: Hugo Blick on his rule-breaking western The EnglishStuart JeffriesAt the heart of this subversive frontier tale is a sumptuous but doomed love story. That’s what makes it the renowned TV writer’s most radical and pleasurable work yet
Though born in Henley-on-Thames, Hugo Blick could have been a cowboy. Aged 18, his concerned parents decided he needed to have his waywardness ironed out of him. He was packed off to Montana and put under the tutelage of a family friend who happened to be an avid outdoorsman and former US air force captain.
Jacinda ArdernIn a Guardian interview, New Zealand’s prime minister reveals how her life has changed and her ambition for a can-do country
It’s just gone lunchtime in New Zealand’s largest city and Jacinda Ardern arrives at her two-bedroom suburban home after a primary school meet and greet.
The 37-year-old prime minister of New Zealand and poster woman of progressive politics is sitting in the passenger seat of a blue Subaru, craving a muesli bar and wearing woollen shoes that look like slippers.